News
May 2024. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia for being awarded a 2024-2025 Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program Fellowship!
April 2024. Congratulations to Britney Mack for being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)!
April 2024. Congratulations to Katherine Perkinson for winning a poster award at the UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (URCA) Conference!
April 2024. Congratulations to Elyse Kimpiab for being accepted to the 2024 ACS GCI Green and Sustainable Chemistry Summer School!
March 2024. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia for being named a DOE SCGSR fellow!
March 2024. Congratulations to Shivangi Borate and River Samad for their article (with ORNL and U. Aveiro) being accepted to Journal of Catalysis!
March 2024. Jamie's co-authored article regarding rigor and reproducibility in site specific characterization was published in Journal of Catalysis.
March 2024. Congratulations to Shivangi Borate and River Samad for their co-authored article with PNNL and ORNL being accepted to Journal of the American Chemical Society!
March 2024. Congratulations to Mayeth Martin and Gabe Miller for both being awarded the 2024 Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from The University of Alabama!
February 2024. The Harris Lab had a productive SECS meeting in Atlanta! Syd and Shivangi gave oral presentations (Shivangi won a "Top Oral Presentation" award!). Elyse, Alex, and Ethan gave poster presentations. Jamie became the president of the SECS.
February 2024. Jamie is selected to the inaugural class of Hewson Engineering Faculty Fellows at The University of Alabama.
January 2024. Congratulations to Alex Minne for your article be accepted for publication in Catalysis Science & Technology!
January 2024. Jamie was featured in a UA News story about UA ChBE's graduate recruiting trip to Lagos, Nigeria in Fall 2023.
January 2024. Congrats to Elyse Kimpiab for passing her Ph.D. qualifier exam, and to Shivangi Borate for passing her Ph.D. candidacy exam!
December 2023. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Aaron Groff as a new undergraduate researcher starting in January 2024.
November 2023. Congratulations to Gabe Miller for winning a second place poster award in the catalysis and reaction engineering division of the student poster competition at the 2023 AIChE National Meeting in Orlando!
November 2023. Congratulations to Elyse Kimpiab on being awarded a Graduate Merit Award from the AKA Educational Advancement Foundation!
October 2023. Jamie is elected as an Alternate Councilor for the ACS CATL Division for 2024-2026.
October 2023. Jamie is selected as Programming Chair for the AIChE CRE Division for 2024-2025.
October 2023. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia on his Frontier article (with the Szilvási group) being published in Dalton Transactions!
October 2023. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Dr. Young Gul Hur to the group as a new postdoctoral scholar working on our DOE-funded ethanol to jet project. Welcome Young!
September 2023. Jamie was an invited attendee at the 2023 Halder Topsoe Catalysis Forum in Munkerupgaard, Denmark, the theme of which was "Sustainable Aviation Fuel". Jamie presented our group's work as part of the "Alcohol to Jet" working group.
September 2023. Congrats to former Harris Lab undergraduate researcher Jenna Groeber for being selected to UA's competitive Early Career Research Administration (ECRA) Fellowship and for being the subject of a recent ChBE Undergraduate Student Highlight Article!
September 2023. Congrats to Ethan Iaia for winning an AIChE CRE Division Travel Award! This award will support Ethan's travel to present at the AIChE National Meeting in Orlando, FL this fall.
August 2023. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Britney Mack to the group as our newest graduate student. Welcome Britney!
August 2023. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Dr. Adam Twombly to the group as our first postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Adam!
July 2023. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Treycen Garton, Adam Honson, and Katherine Perkinson to the group as new undergraduate researchers starting this fall.
July 2023. The Harris Lab is happy to host two high school seniors through our department's NSF EFRI project. The students will get to participate in our research projects and learn more about chemical engineering.
June 2023. Congratulations to Elyse Kimpiab for winning a Tier One Advancing Science Conference Grant to attend the NOBCChE meeting in September!
May 2023. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia for passing the Ph.D. Candidacy Exam!
April 2023. The Harris Lab congratulates Ashley Slayton and Zahra Almohamedhusain on their upcoming graduation from UA, and bids farewell to longtime undergraduate researcher Jenna Groeber who will continue in the STEM-MBA program at UA next fall. Thank you all for all of your contributions, we will miss you!
February 2023. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia for winning a "Top Oral Presentation" award at the Southeastern Catalysis Society Annual Meeting!
January 2023. Congratulations to Shivangi Borate for passing the Ph.D. Qualifier Exam!
January 2023. Congratulations to Alex Minne for passing the Ph.D. Candidacy Exam!
December 2022. The Harris lab is excited to welcome Elyse Kimpiab as a new Ph. D. student starting in Spring 2023. Welcome Elyse!
December 2022. Congratulations to Syd Foster for passing the Ph.D. Candidacy Exam!
November 2022. Congrats to undergraduate research Grant Marshall for winning the first place poster award for Catalysis and Reaction Engineering at the undergraduate poster competition at the 2022 AIChE National Meeting in Phoenix, AZ! Awesome job Grant!
October 2022. The Harris lab is excited to welcome Gabe Miller and Ashley Slayton as our newest undergraduate researchers. Welcome Gabe and Ashley!
August 2022. The Harris lab is overjoyed to be selected for funding awards from DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (DOE Press Release, UA Press Release) with collaborators from Johns Hopkins University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and USDA SBIR (Award List) with American Renewable Metals, Bessemer, AL! These will accelerate our research in production of sustainable aviation fuels and renewable chemicals, respectively.
August 2022. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Fatema Khatun as our newest Ph. D. student and Zahra Almohamedhusain as a new undergraduate researcher this fall. Welcome Fatema and Zahra!
August 2022. Congratulations to River Samad for graduating with your M.S. in Chemical Engineering! Good luck in what comes next, we will miss you!
July 2022. Congratulations to Shivangi Borate and Syd Foster for being accepted to UA's new Preparing Future Faculty and Scholars (PFx) program for 2022-2023!
July 2022. Our collaborative article with Jeremy Arvay (Purdue) and Prof. Christina Li's group (Purdue) was accepted in ACS Catalysis!
July 2022. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia, Syd Foster, and Alex Minne for being named 2022-2023 GAANN Fellows through the UA Chemical and Biological Engineering Department!
June 2022. Congratulations to Ethan Iaia for passing your qualifier exam!!
May 2022. Jamie is awarded the ACS Petroleum Research Fund's Doctoral New Investigator award for research on selective oxidation of alkanes.
May 2022. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Chase McGee as a summer REU student! Chase joins us from the University of Connecticut, and will be working with Shivangi and River on Ethanol upgrading this summer.
May 2022. Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Ryan Kitchen on graduating with his B.S. in Chemical Engineering! Ryan will continue at UA in the STEM-MBA program.
April 2022. Congratulations to River Samad and collaborators from ORNL for our article being published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering !
March 2022. Congratulations to Alex Minne for being awarded the 2nd Place Presentation prize at the inaugural UA Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Research Symposium!
February 2022. Jamie is elected as secretary of the Southeastern Catalysis Society.
January 2022. The Harris Lab welcomes Grant Marshall as a new undergraduate researcher. Welcome Grant!
August 2021. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Shivangi Borate and Ethan Iaia as the newest PhD students in the group. Welcome Shivangi and Ethan!
August 2021. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Mary Elizabeth ("Mayeth") Martin as our newest undergraduate researcher in the group. Welcome Mayeth!
July 2021. Congratulations to Jenna for winning the 1st place poster award at the LS-PAC-MODELS annual meeting. Great job Jenna!
July 2021. Congratulations to River and our collaborators from ORNL, APS, Purdue, and Maryland on the publication of our article regarding conversion of ethanol to C3+ rich olefins in ACS Catalysis , which was featured on ORNL's website and phys.org!
July 2021. The Harris Lab bid farewell to REU student Alex Dussault. Thanks for all of your hard work, Alex!
June 2021. The Harris Lab is excited to welcome Sydney Foster as our newest PhD student in the group. Welcome Syd!
June 2021. Dr. Harris is awarded the 2021-22 ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (story from Oak Ridger).
May 2021. The Harris Lab is excited to have UA undergraduate Jenna Groeber and Cal Poly Pomona undergraduate Alexander Dussault join us in the lab as NSF REU students this summer.
April 2021. Several Harris Lab members were recognized at the UA ChBE Honors Day: Charley Diemer – 2021 ChBE Outstanding Senior; Josh Perch – 2021 Engineering Council of Birmingham Outstanding Undergraduate Student, ChBE Nominee, 2021 ChBE Honors Graduate; River Samad – 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant. Congratulations to all!
April 2021. Congratulations to Josh Perch for being selected as the first place presentation in Engineering, Energy, and Transportation (for "in-progress" projects) at the 2021 UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference. Great Job Josh!
April 2021. Professor Harris is awarded the UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference's Top Faculty Mentor Award.
April 2021. The Harris Lab's Alabama Water Institute Equipment Support proposal was awarded, which will allow us to purchase a UV-VIS-NIR instrument with diffuse reflectance capabilities.
March 2021. Charley, Jenna, and Josh presented their research at the UA Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Conference. Great job all!
January 2021. The Harris Laboratory is excited to welcome Jenna Groeber and Ryan Kitchen as our newest undergraduate researchers. Welcome Jenna and Ryan!
January 2021. The Harris Laboratory is excited to welcome Alex Minne as the newest PhD student in the group. Welcome Alex!
August 2020. The Harris Laboratory welcomes Jensen Baade as a new undergraduate researcher. Welcome Jensen!
July 2020. Our Perspective on metal-zeotypes was published in ACS Catalysis. Congrats to the team that included alumni and faculty from Purdue Catalysis Center!
June 2020. Professor Harris' article on product inhibition was published in Journal of Catalysis. Congrats to the team of alumni, students, and faculty from Purdue Catalysis Center!
May 2020. The Harris Laboratory congratulates undergraduate researcher Suzy Lee on her graduation from UA. Good luck in graduate school at Georgia Tech!
March 2020. Professor Harris and River worked with Geoff Wilson of Great Lakes Technical Services to install our custom GC and GCMS for monitoring the composition of reactor effluent. Thanks Geoff!
January 2020. The Harris Group welcomes Tyler Imig as our newest undergraduate researcher. Welcome Tyler!
January 2020. The Harris Group welcomes River Samad and Abdulrahman Usman as new PhD students!
November 2019. Dr. Harris' paper on the kinetics of Cl deposition and removal during ethylene epoxidation over Ag catalysts was published in Journal of Catalysis!
September 2019. Dr. Harris' paper on kinetic modeling of ethylene epoxidation kinetics was published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research!
August 2019. The Harris group welcomes Reece de Boisblanc, Charley Diemer, Sumin Lee, and Josh Perch as undergraduate researchers. Welcome to the lab!
August 2019. Dr. Harris' paper on molecular characteristics governing Cl coverage on Ag catalysts is published in Journal of Catalysis!
May 2019. Jason Bates' paper on the distinct reactivity of Sn substituted at framework locations and at defect grain boundaries was published in ACS Catalysis!
May 2019. Dr Harris accepts position as an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of Alabama, starting from Fall 2019.
March 2019. Our paper on deactivation of Sn-beta zeolites was published in Catalysis Science & Technology
January 2019. Dr. Harris was awarded "Best Presentation" in his session from the AIChE for his talk on ethylene epoxidation in Pittsburgh.
November 2018. Dr. Harris was awarded a UMN Postdoctoral Association Career Development Award to support travel to academic conferences.
September 2018. Our collaborative paper with the Miller group, Flaherty group from University of Illinois, and Hibbitts group from University of Florida, is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
September 2018. Our paper on quantification of Cl coverage during ethylene epoxidation catalysis over promoted Ag catalysts was published in Journal of Catalysis.
July 2018. Our paper on inhibition of propylene epoxidation over Au/TS-1 by propylene oxide was published in Journal of Catalysis.
June 2018. Dr. Harris co-chaired the inaugural Catalysis GRS in New London, NH.
April 2018. Our paper on the effect of chlorine on ethylene oxidation kinetics over Ag catalysts was published in Chemistry a European Journal.
January 2018. Dr. Harris received the Purdue Graduate Teacher Certificate recognizing his commitment to instructional excellence at Purdue and in Chemical Engineering
November 2017. Dr. Harris presented our Sn-CHA work at the CRE poster session at the annual AIChE Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
August 2017. Our article is published in Chemistry of Materials related to synthesis and characterization of isolated Sn sites in Sn-CHA molecular sieves