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2026
2026
July 30 - Candace and Caitlin present their summer undergraduate research at the end of summer poster session! It's been an absolute delight to have these folks in the lab, working hard all summer!
June 23 - Abimbola successfully defended her Chemistry MS thesis. Congrats and good luck in your Ph.D. at UMN-Twin Cities!
May 26 - Welcome to the group Candace! Candace is a UMN-TC student (pursuing BS in Neuroscience) who is spending the summer in the Maurer-Jones group. We're excited to have her!
May 9 - Commencement! Congrats to the graduates.
May - Melissa has officially been promoted to Full Professor!
May - Chloe and Emma both successfully defended their MS Theses. Congrats and please be on the lookout to hire these EXCELLENT scientists!
April 9 - Melissa presented the group's work at K-State. Thanks for having me!
March 27 - Congrats to Abimbola who presented her work at the Department Seminar series!
February 27 - Congrats to Emma who presented her work at the Department Seminar series!
January - New Year and new semester. Good luck everyone!
2025
2025
December 1 - Melissa presented the groups microplastic work at the Freshwater Science program at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
December - Collaborative paper with Minor group published in Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts. Check out the study here and congrats to grad student Joey Marchand for excellent work.
November 1 - Abimbola and Chloe present their research at the Lake Superior Section of ACS student poster session
October 14 - Abimbola and Chloe present their research at the Water Resource Conference in St. Paul. Congrats to Chloe on receiving a student poster presentation award!
September 5 - Melissa presented the group's work at her promotion seminar "Fate of Plastics in the Environment: From Legacy Pollutants to Emergent Materials"
Fall 2025 - Congrats to Caitlin, Connor, and Paul who were all awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program fellowship to continue working on their various research projects.
July 31 - Jackie presented her SURP project "Crystallinity of Polylactic Acid Impacts Enzyme Hydrolysis" at the end of summer poster session at UMD.
July 24 - Abimbola and Melissa lead the microplastics sampling with a group of educators and researchers at MN Sea Grant's Lake Superior Speaks event
July 16 - Liana successfully defends her WRS MS thesis. Congrats, Liana!
June - Emma and Abimbola present their thesis proposals. Keep up the good work!
May 27 - Jackie began work this summer after being awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Program award.
May 11-15 - Melissa attended and presented at the SETAC Europe conference in Vienna, Austria.
May 10 - Congratulations to Grace and Isaac for graduating with their bachelor's degrees!
April 25 - Congratulations to recent MS graduate Tom Badzinski on the publication of his thesis work.
April 25 - Grace and Isaac presented their undergraduate research at the Department's Undergraduate Research Symposium. Grace was awarded the Casmir Ilenda award for her outstanding presentation.
April 17 - Melissa was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Research/Creative Activity Award (< 10 years service).
April 8 - Melissa contributed to this editorial in ES&T entitled Apolitical Science
April - Abimbola and Melissa spend time doing fieldwork with high school science classrooms across the state.
March 23 - 27 - Melissa, Isaac, Grace, and Emma give talks at Spring ACS in San Diego!
January 24 - Melissa gives a talk at SUNY-Binghamton.
January - Caitlin, Jackie, and Connor join the lab. Welcome!
January - Maurer-Jones group gets a new website! Thanks for visiting
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