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June 2025: Group alum Alena is the editor of a new book, "Flow: Women's Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky"

June 2025: Peyton and Brett receive Outstanding Graduate Awards

May 2025: Peyton gives her department honors presentation 

May 2025: Peyton and Bo present posters during scholars week

May 2025: Bo is selected for the WWU Chemistry REU program

April 2025: Bo presents a poster and Peyton gives a talk at the ACS Puget Sound Undergraduate Research Symposium

March 2025: Peyton presents a poster and Margaret gives a talk at the ACS National Meeting in San Diego

March 2025: Eli's WWU Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities proposal is funded 

June 2024: Peyton and Benjamin are awarded department scholarships

June 2024: A very successful department picnic! Peyton and Prof. Vyvyan win the department corn hole tournament. Lucas, Benjamin, Peyton, and Brett are Molympic champions. Brett wins the WWU periodic table challenge.

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

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   

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.

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

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

 January 2015: MLS accepts position at Western Washington University