After four years at UMN, the Race group is closing its doors. Thank you to all the group members for their hard work and understanding. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. -NR
December 2021 Congratulations to Atanu and Kate, and Hannah, Jack, and Casey for their respective publications in JACS and Org Lett, respectively.
August 2021 Congratulations to Hannah for being awarded the Wayland Noland 4th Year Excellence Fellowship!
July 2021 We say farewell to Dr Shiyan Xu who leaves us for NuraBio in the Bay Area. Good luck Shiyan!
June 2021 Congratulations to Shelby and Casey for winning 'Best Talk' prizes at the UMN 3rd year graduate research symposium.
June 2021 Welcome to Vera and Annika who join us for the summer having been awarded UMN Summer Research Fellowships.
June 2021 Welcome to Casey Ritts who joins the group.
December 2020 Welcome to new first year students Serena, Jack, and Andy.
November 2020 Nick has been awarded a '2021 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award'. This award is given to promising young faculty at the beginning of their career.
August 2020 Congratulations to Hannah and Shelby on their recent Synpacts article highlighting our work with phenonium ions.
July 2020 The group has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (R35 MIRA) to continue studying phenonium ions as strategic control elements in synthesis.
June 2020 We welcome postdoc Dr Atanu Modak to the group. Atanu joins us from a postdoc position at Indiana University.
May 2020 Congratulations to Shelby for passing her Written and Oral exams. Great work!
April 2020 Our first paper is online now at JACS. Congratulations to Shiyan, Hannah, and Shelby!
January 2020 Congratulations to Hannah for passing her Written and Oral exams. Great work!
January 2020 Congratulations to Yun for passing his Written and Oral exams. Great work!
November 2019 We were recently interviewed by the Minnesota Daily about our research. You can find the article here.