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2025. 2. Congratulations to Annesha Sengupta who has been selected to participate in the 2025 Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop in Washington, DC, from April  06-09, 2025! 

2024.12. Congratulations to Joohan Kim, our undergraduate researcher mentored by Madison and Dallas, for winning an ACS SWRM Undergraduate Oral Presentation Award!

2024. 8. Congratulations to Madison on receiving the ACS Leadership in the Promotion of Research Safety Award!

2024. 6. Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) on receiving the PLU Sharon Dabney Award!

2024. 5. Xi Chen passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Chen! 

2024. 5. Dr. Jiaxin Feng has been selected to receive the 2024 Cancer Therapeutics Training Program (CTTP) funded fellowship. Congratulations Dr. Feng!

2024. 5. Madison Edwards has been selected to attend the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, scheduled for June 30 to July 5. Congratulations, Madison, on receiving this prestigious honor! Enjoy your second trip to Europe this year!   

2024. 5. Congratulations to Chia-Lung (Michael) Tsai for winning the 2nd Place Poster Presentation at the Biological and Chemical Sciences Symposium!

2024. 5. Madison Edwards was selected to give an oral presentation titled "Interfacial Electromigration for Analysis of Biofluid Lipids in Small Volumes" at the 2024 Lipidomics Gordon Research Seminar in Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Via Giovanni Pascoli Lucca (Barga), Lucca, Italy!

2024. 5. Congratulations to Dr. Yan on receiving the 2024 SynthX Texas Chemical Biology Young Investigator Award! 

2024. 4. Joohan Kim has been admitted to the 2024 Summer Research Scholars Program and will perform the research under the mentorship of Madison Edwards and Dallas Freitas. 

2024. 4. Congratulations to Tiya on receiving the Manuel P. Soriaga Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry! 

2024. 4. Congratulations to Joohan Kim who has been selected to receive an undergraduate award from the Department of Chemistry at Texas A&M University!

2024. 3. Congratulations to Annesha Sengupta on being selected as a winner of the 2023 Elsevier IJMS Best Student Paper Award! 

2024. 3. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on being selected as a 2023 ACS Measurement Science Au Rising Star.

2024. 3. Congratulations to Madison Edwards who earned selection as 2024 participants in the CAS Future Leaders Program, an elite scientific leadership immersion opportunity provided through the American Chemical Society (ACS). 

2024. 3. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan who has been recognized as a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. We are grateful to the Sloan Foundation for the research support. 

2024. 3.  Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang passed her PhD dissertation defense. Congratulations, Dr. Yang! 

2024. 2. Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan who earned the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist! 

2023. 11   Congratulations to Madison Edwards on receiving the Martin Donald Corera Memorial Endowed Travel Award!  

2023. 11   Congratulations to Madison Edwards on receiving the ACS ANYL Younger Chemist Travel Grant!

2023. 11.  Congratulations to Dallas Freitas for receiving a Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship! 

2023. 10. Chia-Lung Tsai (Michael) joined our team as a graduate student! Welcome!

2023  Congratulations to Madison Edwards on receiving the Graduate Recruitment, Enhancement, and Travel (GREAT) supplemental funding 

2023  Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the Association of Former Students (AFS) College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award 

2023. 4.  Dr. Disni Gunasekera joined our team as a postdoctoral fellow! Welcome! 

2023. 7.  Jiaxin and Alex presented the posters on quantitative MS imaging and native MS at the Advancing Mass Spectrometry Conference at UT Austin 

2023  Congratulations to Dr. Jiaxin Feng on being selected for the Cancer Therapeutics Training Program 

2023. 6.  At the 71st ASMS conference in Houston: Shuli, Dallas, Madison, and Luan gave oral presentations on the topics of lipid mass tags, LESA droplet reaction, theta capillary microreactor and V-EASI-MS; Jiaxin gave a lightning talk on her quantitative MS imaging; Tiya, Xi, Alex, Erin, Hongyuan, Venus, Huiying and Annesha gave poster presentations and enjoyed the discussion with peers. 

2023  Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the IUPAC Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry 

2023  Congratulations to Dallas Freitas on being selected to participate in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Program 

2023    Congratulations to Erin Hirtzel on receiving the DoD STEM Scholarship (SMART) 

2023  Congratulations to Dr. Jiaxin Feng on receiving the Arts & Sciences Postdoc Travel Award 

2023    Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on being selected as ASCEND Research Leadership Fellow

2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Graduate Student Travel Award! 

2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention 

2023    Congratulations to Tingyuan (Tiya) Yang on receiving the ACS Graduate Student Travel Award!

2023 March  Congratulations to Dr. Shuli Tang. Fantastic work and thesis defense!

2023    Congratulations to Dr. Xin Yan on receiving the Okeanos-CAPA Young Investigator Award at the Chemistry & Biology Interface 

Nov 2022  Congratulations to Madison on receiving the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Mentoring!

Oct 2022  Congratulations to Erin on winning the best poster award at the Scott Metal Symposium!

Oct 2022   We had a fun chemistry open house showing kids to make nanofibers by electrospinning!

Oct 2022    First-year graduate students Annesha, Venus, Hongyuan, and Huiying joined our group! Welcome!

Sept 2022   Congratulations to Madison on receiving the KHP Activity and Demonstration Development Grant!

Sept 2022   Aidan Slagter joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Aidan!

Aug 2022     Madison was elected Vice President and Dallas was elected International Liaison at GSAC. 

Aug 2022      Tiya and Erin were selected to serve on the chemistry safety committees. 

July 2022    Congratulations to Madison and Xi on receiving the departmental travel awards!   

Jun 2022      Nicholas White from Southeastern Oklahoma State University joined our group as an REU student. Welcome, Nick!

Jun 2022      At the 70th ASMS conference in Minneapolis: Dr. Yan gave the presentation on accelerated microdroplet reactions in the section honoring R. Graham Cooks; Madison gave a talk on her exciting theta tip interfacial microreactor; Shuli, Tiya, Dallas, Xi, and Alex gave poster presentations and gained insight from the discussion with peers. Erin enjoyed her first ASMS meeting so much:) 

May 2022      Congratulations to Shuli on receiving the Dow Symposium Poster Award and Dow Chemical Graduate Scholar Award!

May 2022      Congratulations to Madison on receiving the First Year Chemistry Program Teaching Award! 

Apr 2022      Congratulations to Dallas and Tiya on receiving the OGAPS travel awards!

Apr 2022      Congratulations to Madison on receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) award!