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June 2024: Brett wins the WWU periodic table challenge

June 2024: Lucas, Benjamin, Peyton, and Brett are Molympic champions

June 2024: Peyton and Prof. Vyvyan win the department corn hole tournament

May 2024: Brett and Peyton present posters during scholars week

May 2024: Group alum Lia graduates from law school

April 2024: Peyton and Brett present posters at the ACS Puget Sound Undergraduate Research Symposium

May 2023: Riley gives his honors thesis presentation

June 2022: Riley is awarded a Barbara French Duzan Scholarship

September 2021: Margaret is promoted to Associate Professor

January 2021: Our paper is published in ACS Catalysis

June 2020: Rachael is named the Outstanding Inorganic Student

April 2020: Our NSF proposal "RUI: The Role of Engineered Ligands in Putative Homogeneous Catalysis: Supporting a Homogeneous Catalyst or Modulating Nanoparticle Formation" is funded

March 2020: Rachael and Margaret's ACS meeting presentations cancelled by COVID

November 2019: Rachael, Jason, and Sage present posters at the 28th Annual Murdock College Science Research Conference

July 2019: Margaret's poster at the Organometallic Gordon Conference is selected for a poster talk

June 2019: Rachael receives a Rathmann Family Foundation Scholarship and a Jarvis Memorial Summer Research Award

June 2019: Lia receives Chair's Award for Outstanding Student Initiative 

June 2019: Jason places second in the WWU Chemistry Periodic Table Challenge

May 2019: Our paper is published in Catalysis Science & Technology

May 2019: Gabe defends his masters thesis

May 2019: Jarrod and Rachael present posters during WWU Scholars Week

April 2019: Jarrod and Rachael present posters at the Puget Sound Undergraduate Research Symposium

December 2018: Rachael and Jarrod receive WWU Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Awards 

June 2018: Gabe travels to PNNL to present a poster at ACS NORM 

June 2018: Alena receives the Outstanding Inorganic Student Award and Aaron receives the Outstanding Organic Student Award

May 2018: Lia attends the EXROP Annual Meeting after being named a 2018 HHMI EXROP Fellow. Lia will spend ten weeks with the Summers Lab at UMBC.                         

May 2018: Alena presents a poster during WWU Scholars Week

May 2018: Gabe presents a poster at the WWU Graduate Student Symposium

Gabe with poster

April 2018: Jarrod presents a poster at the ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 2018: Jarrod is chemistry famous

March 2018: Alena presents a poster at the ACS meeting in New Orleans

December 2017: Western Today features an article about the SACNAS conference that Lia attended

December 2017: Alena receives a WWU Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Award 

November 2017: Jarrod, Gabe, Ian, and Alena travel to the Pauling Symposium at PSU   

Jarrod, Gabe, Ian, Alena

October 2017: Lia receives a SACNAS travel scholarship and presents a poster at the National Diversity in STEM Conference in Salt Lake City

August 2017: Alena presents a poster at the WWU REU symposium

June 2017: Jordan is recognized with the 2017 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry at Western

June 2017: Alena receives the WWU Ruth Watts Female Scientist Scholarship and the Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions Summer Research Stipend

May 2017: Lia is awarded the WWU Womxn of Color Empowerment Scholarship

May 2017: Jordan, Ian, and Gabe present posters during WWU Scholars Week

April 2017: Gabe's presentation at the ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium is voted "most scientifically  informative" by meeting  attendees

April 2017: Ian presents a poster at the ACS meeting in San Francisco

August 2016: Jordan presents a poster at the WWU REU Symposium.

Jordan next to poster

April 2016: "Group" becomes a group. Welcome Gabe, Ian, and Jordan.

August 2015: Empty lab. Time to start setting up.

empty lab

 January 2015: MLS accepts position at Western Washington University