Welcome Callie!
Callie Goins joins the lab as a first-year student, jointly advised by Prof. Hersam. She will work on mixed conductors as part of the NU MRSEC. Welcome to the group!
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Goodbye, Steven!
Steven departs for a Senior Scientist I position in Process Chemistry at AbbVie in North Chicago. We’ll miss his enthusiasm, support, and Taylor Swift fandom!
Welcome, Mara!
Mara joins our lab as a new postdoc. She completed her PhD at UIUC with Steve Zimmeran. She will be applying her expertise in dynamic covalent chemistry to photoswitchable dynamic […]
Welcome summer researchers!
We welcome Northwestern undergraduates Sarah, Shoki, and Hailey (supported by a NU SURG, CLP summer scholar award, and Posner fellowship, respectively) and MONET visiting researcher Twila, who attends the College […]
Meet our new lab stars!
Jolly was selected as Lab Citizen Star by the group, and Daniel was nominated Lab Safety Star by our safety officer. Thank you both for your great work!
Congratulations Dr. Pierce!
Ian defends his thesis, “Incorporating dynamic bonds for tunable and degradable thermosets”. Next, he is off to PPG to become a Research Chemist in the Liquid Protective Coatings division. Congratulations!!
Qualifying exams: passed!
Congratulations to our second-year graduate students, Emmanuel and Ethan, who both passed their qualifying exams!
3rd year seminars!
Congrats to Daniel, Haley, and Jonathan for giving their third year seminars! Their projects covered a wide swath of Kalow lab research (vitrimers, photoswitchable hydrogels, and photopolymerization).
Welcome, Jolly and Zamira!
Zamira and Jolly join the lab as first-year students. Learn more about them in current members. Welcome to the group!
Our newest Lab Stars are Jonathan and Ian!
Jonathan was selected by the lab as the Lab Citizen Star for our biennial award. He was recognized for his commitment to safety and helping others, especially with learning DFT […]