lab events

Mug painting and Secret Santa!

We held our annual post-holiday group party, decorating mugs at Artica Studios in Norris, exchanging Secret Santa gifts (most-guessed members: Jonathan and Jolly), and eating Peppercorns. It turns out there […]

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!

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 […]

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, […]