We are excited to work with Peter Carlson this summer, who is joining our REU program from U. Minnesota. Peter will be working with Laila on a project to better understand the mechanism of perovskite nanocrystal growth. We’re all looking forward to working with you, Peter!

A huge congratulations to Zach, who was selected for a Graduate Student Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Chemistry! Zach won the award based on his phenomenal work as a teaching assistant for the physical chemistry laboratory course, where he took on two of the most difficult labs on darkfield microscopy and rovibrational spectroscopy. Thank you for all you do for our undergraduate students, Zach!

Congratulations to Nick, who was awarded the Baitis Undergraduate Fellowship! This fellowship will support Nick’s work on copper phthalocyanine over the summer. Well-deserved, Nick!

A big congrats to Logan on being awarded the Kuntz-Swinehart Memorial Scholarship. Keep up the great work, Logan!

Congrats to Nick who was awarded this year’s Pchem Undergraduate Fellowship! He will be studying the photophysics that accompany the molecular aggregation of copper phthalocyanine molecules and how they interact with electron acceptors. Great job, Nick!

Many thanks to Chris Greico for hosting my seminar visit to Auburn University. It was a treat to meet Chris, his growing lab group, and some of the Auburn faculty!

A big welcome to Elana and Benjamin! The lab is super excited to work with these two stellar first-year gradstudents this term. Elana will be joining Zach and Nick on the CuPc project to understand how film morphology affects charge transfer, while Benjamin will develop a simulation of halide segregation in perovskite nanocrystals and shadow Laila in the lab. It’s going to be a great quarter with these two!

A big congrats to our newest Ph. D. candidate, Laila Nawab!

The lab is very excited to welcome Nick! After a productive and impressive lab-trial, Nick will be joining the Organics team to work on the CuPc project with Zach. We’re thrilled to have him on board!

Congrats to Zach for publishing his review of the SSTA technique in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry! This is Zach’s (and my) favorite journal, so we are super excited to publish here! Fantastic job, Zach!