2021

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November 27, 2021

Farewell, Nils!

The group says goodbye to our first postdoc, Dr. Nils Rotthowe. You will be missed! Good luck on the European leg of your Fellowship in Groningen, Netherlands.

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August 01, 2021

Farewell, Zelin!

We wish our fantastic undergraduate ​student Zelin Miao great success in his new position as a graduate student at Boston University.

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July 30, 2021

ACS PRF DNI grant awarded!

This funding will support the development of new self-assembled monolayer systems for surface-bound homogeneous catalysis. Thank you ACS!

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June 09, 2021

Well done Dr. Rotthowe!

Congratulations to our phenomenal postdoc Nils Rotthowe, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. Great job!

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June 01, 2021

Congratulations Sawyer!

Sawyer Lazar is awarded a Beckman Scholars Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, helping to support his research in the group over the next 15 months.

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June 01, 2021

Jeremy joins us for the summer!

We are delighted to welcome Jeremy Nunez, who will be working with us over the next 10 weeks as a Cerritos Summer Research Intern.

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May 21, 2021

Congratulations Christina!

Christina Trang passes her (virtual) qualifying exam, and becomes the group's first Ph.D. candidate. Well done!!

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March 24, 2021

Back to 100% Occupancy

Significantly fewer new cases of COVID-19 permits a return to in-person work at 100% (physically-distanced) occupancy. Let's get to it!

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January 18, 2021

Lab Closed for 1 Week.

Due to high COVID-19 numbers in LA County, we err on the side of caution and take a week out of lab to work from home.

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January 15, 2021

Welcome Sawyer!

Sawyer Lazar joins Tejpal and Daniel in working on our ongoing collaborative cheminformatics project with Cerritos College.

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January 08, 2021

Congratulations, Tejpal and Sully!

Both students are awarded the USC Provost's Undergrad Research Fellowship for Spring 2021!