Aug 26, 2025 – Mike, Manu, and Eryck's invited review entitled "CO2 Reduction Using Chalcogen-Modified Copper Materials and Nanoclusters: Progress and Challenges" is published online! Check it out here! 🎉🎉

Aug 7, 2025 – Rana presents her summer research at the undergraduate research symposium at UMN. We're super proud of your work this summer Rana! 

June 27, 2025 – Rupal was one of 6 students from chemistry to earn a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship! Congratulations Rupal!!

June 6, 2025 – Manu wins Paul & Gerda Gassman award for his outstanding talk at the Graduate Student Research Symposium! Nice work Manu!!

May 15, 2025 – Rana Umran joins the group as a summer REU / Lando student. Welcome!

May 5, 2025 – Lauren Estepp graduates with an honors B.S. summa cum laude. Congratulations Lauren!

April 30, 2025 – Mike departs the group for a job as a research scientist at Dow. Congratulations on your new position, Mike, and we'll miss you! 

April 15, 2025 – Rupal was among 8 women who were awarded the ACS Women Chemists Committee/Merck Research Award. Fantastic work Rupal!!

April 7, 2025 – Manu is selected as one of 16 recipients of 2025 Merck Next Gen Leaders in Chemistry Award. Fantastic work Manu!!

April 3, 2025 – Lauren Estepp successfully defended her honors thesis, with summa cum laude distinction. Way to go Lauren!!

Jan 22, 2025 – Manu is the double-champion of this year's chili cookoff, winning both the "best meat chili" and "people's choice" award! Congrats Manu!!

December 10, 2024 – Mike's paper is featured in the RSC Nanoscale newsletter! Congrats Mike!

November 8, 2024 –  Brett Schneider joined the Bailey group as a first year graduate student. Welcome Brett!

October 15, 2024 – Rupal and Lauren attend the ACS midwest regional meeting. Congrats!!

October 4, 2024 – Shatha Alabbad joins the Bailey group as a graduate student from the Chemical Engineering and Material Science department. Welcome Shatha!

Sept 24, 2024 – Manu wins a poster prize for his presentation at the Chicago Inorganic Research Colloquium in Madison, WI. Congrats Manu!!

Sept 24, 2024 – Rupal and Mike gave an oral talk at the Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium and Eryck, Romualda, Lauren, and Manu gave posters. Congratulations everyone!

September 17, 2024 – Happy postdoc appreciation week! We appreciate you, Mike!!

August 22, 2024 – Mike's paper was accepted in Nanoscale as part of the journal's themed collection on Metal Nanoclusters. Congrats Mike!! You can find the advance article here 🎉

August 17, 2024 – Rupal wins a 2024 Excellence Fellowship from the University of Minnesota. This was an extremely competitive year and Rupal's application rose to the top. Congratulations, Rupal! 

June 26, 2024 – Romualda Aquino and Ben Andal join our research group for the summer. Welcome Romualda and Ben!

June 7, 2024 – Congrats to Rupal for presenting her work on cage encapsulation of [4Fe–4S] clusters in the 23rd Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium.  We are super proud of all of your accomplishments and hard work! 

June 6, 2024 – Lauren, Rupal, Mike, and Gwen all present posters at the Inorganic Chemistry GRC. Congrats all on your hard work! 

May 5, 2024 – Marlan and Alex graduate with B.Sc. degrees from UMN. Congratulations! 

Feb 5, 2024 – Gwen presents a short talk on Manu, Eryck, and Mike's work on shapeshifting copper chalcogenide clusters at the Atomically Precise Nanochemistry GRC!

Jan 15, 2024 – The Bailey group was awarded a Doctoral New Investigator grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund to pursue their research on using copper chalcogenide clusters to support inert bond activation! Thanks to the ACS PRF for their support! 🎉