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!!
lab events
Qualifying exams: passed!
Congratulations to our second-year graduate students, Emmanuel and Ethan, who both passed their qualifying exams!
Group “holiday” party!
We continued our tradition of holding a holiday party in February at Wilmette Bowling Center. We learned that Alec is very good at bowling (especially considering he’s only done it […]
Kalow lab at ACS San Francisco
Almost the whole lab came to the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco! Students gave talks, presented posters, and came to support Julia at her award symposium. We had a […]
The Board of Trustees approves Julia’s promotion!
We received news from Provost Kathleen Hagerty that the Board of Trustees had approved Julia’s promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2023. Thank you to all […]
Congratulations to the second years!
Our second-year students Daniel, Haley, and Jonathan all passed their qualifying exams and are officially PhD candidates! The group went to Stacked & Folded to celebrate. Great work!
Double congrats for Dr. Berl!
Alexandra defends her thesis on the photopolymerization of Grignard monomers to make π-conjugated polymers, including her work on N-OEG polymers, which was just published in ACS Macro Lett! In the […]
Kalow lab holiday party
For the first time, the Kalow lab held its holiday party during the holiday season! This was only possible due to the excellent planning by our postdocs (thanks, Steven, Young Ju, […]
Julia gives her tenure talk
Julia gives a seminar on the group’s research for the department. The group made awesome signs!
Farewell, Joanne!
The group enjoys Tomate on the lakefill to say goodbye to our CSP summer research student, Joanne Ko. Joanne made great process on degradable melamine thermosets and we wish her […]