Group News

January 2008
Emily Pentzer gave a talk at the Gordon Graduate Research Seminar and presented a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Macromolecular Materials in Ventura, CA.

December 2008
The entire group welcomed the holiday season with a celebratory dinner at SonBinh’s house followed by a gift exchange.

November 2008
New students Amelia Delaquil, Sonia Ortiz, Prativa Pandey and Ryan Totten join the group.

The group purchased a beautiful new aqueous GPC with four different detectors!

October 2008
Emily Pentzer and Tendai Gadzikwa published a paper entitled “Substrate Encapsulation: An Efficient Strategy for the RCM-Synthesis of Unsaturated Lactones” in Organic Letters.

September 2008
Emily Pentzer presented a short talk at the inaugural NATO Advanced Summer Institute on New Materials via Metal Mediated Reactions in Antalya, Turkey.

Avi Shultz Presented Poster at a Joint Workshop on Concepts and Advances in Modern Catalysis, Heidelberg, Germany.

Paper has been submitted and accepted:
Shultz, A. M.; Farha, O. K.; Hupp, J. T.; Nguyen, S. T. JACS 2009, accepted.

August 2008
Welcome to our new post doctoral fellow Owen Compton. He comes to us from the lab of Prof. Frank Osterloh at the University of California, Davis.

Avi Shultz Participated in and Presented a poster at UCS International Materials Research Center Summer School on Periodic Structures and Crystal Chemistry, Santa Barbara, CA.

July 2008
Congratulations to Sang-Min Lee for receiving the Graduate School Travel Grant for his upcoming attendance at the Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Research Conference!

Welcome to our new post doctoral fellow Ibrahim Eryazici! He comes to us from the lab of Prof. George Newkome at the University of Akron, Ohio.

Congratulations to Emily Pentzer for being elected Vice-President of the Graduate Chemistry Honor Society, Phi Lambda Upsilon (PLU)

Brian Stepp has successfully defended his Ph.D. and will be departing to the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague to start a postdoctoral position with Prof. Josef Michl at the end of this month. Good Luck Brian!

June 2008
Congratulations to Tendai Gadzikwa for receiving the Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellowship. She has recently accepted a postdoctoral position with Prof. Joost Reek at the University of Amsterdam which will begin in Fall 2008.

DeeDee Smith and Emily Pentzer presented posters at the Lurie Cancer Center Annual Poster Center, Chicago, IL.

Rajan Vatassery, a visiting scientist, departed. He will be attending University of Minnesota for graduate school in the fall.

Welcome to the REU, MRSEC, NSEC, and other summer students!

Congratulations to Sang-Min Lee and DeeDee Smith for their acceptance to the Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology Gordon Research Conference in Big Sky, Montana August 2008.