News
Group News:
May 2024: We thank the Cronn Endowment for funding our work in environmental science!
May 2024: Alex was selected to receive an NASA Astrobiology Scholarship that allows her to participate the International School of Astrobiology in Spain, congrats!
May 2024: Alex traveled to Providence in RI and gave an excellent talk at the AbSciCon. Well done!
Apr 2024: Rhys has been admitted into OU's MS program in chemistry and will continue working with us, congrats!
Apr 2024: Welcome Rachel Emmons to join our group as a SURP Fellow!
Apr 2024: Congratulations Megan Stull on receiving an ACS Outstanding Undergraduate Environmental Chemistry Award!
Feb 2024: Our collaboration paper on liquid-vacuum transition of biosignatures in icy ocean worlds has been accepted by Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Congratulations Alex!
Feb 2024: Dr. Yang participated the NASA Biosignatures Ideas Lab in Denver, CO.
Oct 2023: Our ebook "Hydrothermal Chemistry" has been published on ACS in Focus.
Sep 2023: Akhil joins our group as a new graduate student, welcome!
Aug 2023: Congratulations to Alexandria on her first-author paper accepted by Geophysical Research Letters !
Jul 2023: Yiju has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Liao!
Jul 2023: Dr. Yang co-chaired a session at the Goldschmidt Conference.
May 2023: Alex attended and presented at the AbGradCon conference held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
May 2023: Christina and Rhys received the Provost's award and the SURP fellowship, respectively. Congrats!
May 2023: Recent news about our collaborative research-"Overlooked heavy-metal gases could reveal alien life" by Kavli.
Jan 2023: Sa'Maricle joined the lab, welcome!
Dec 2022: Yiju received a Provost Graduate Student Research Award, congrats!
Oct 2022: Congratulations to Ben on receiving the department's James Morrison Thompson Scholarship!
Oct 2022: We are excited to receive a new Scialog SLU award (in collaboration with Dr. Schwieterman at UC Riverside) supported by the Kavli Foundation.
Aug 2022: Dr. Yang has been appointed as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science.
Aug 2022: An MRI proposal for acquiring a confocal Raman spectrometer is funded by NSF. Congrats to the leading PI Dr. A. Yang and the team!
Aug 2022: Dr. Yang was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
Jul 2022: Alex and Dr. Yang visited Dr. Neveu's lab at NASA Goddard and successfully conducted experiments for the Scialog project.
May 2022: Yiju and Alex gave an oral and a poster presentation at the AbSciCon, good job!
May 2022: Ben joins our lab as a SURP fellow, welcome!
May 2022: Our group alumnus Jared Zaporski received an Honorable Mention from the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), congrats!
Apr 2022: Zack accepts a PhD offer from Florida State and will start his new journey this fall. Congratulations and we wish him the very best!
Apr 2022: Ethan has successfully submitted his Honors College thesis, congrats!
Mar 2022: Our paper on effects of magnetite on phosphorus storage and carbon cycling in Lake Michigan shoreline has been accepted by Appl. Geochem., congrats!
Mar 2022: Dr. Yang received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Research Office.
Mar 2022: Yiju and Alex both received the Provost Graduate Travel Awards, congrats!
Oct 2021: Zack and Emma joined the lab, welcome!
Sep 2021: We are excited to receive a Scialog award (in collaboration with Dr. Neveu at NASA) to explore biosignatures in icy ocean worlds (see OU news).
Aug 2021: Yiju's paper on alcohol hydrothermal oxidation is published in ACS E&SC, congrats!
May 2021: Ethan and Alise joined the group as summer undergraduate researchers, welcome!
Apr 2021: Congratulations to Alexandria on receiving an OU Provost Graduate Research Award!
Apr 2021: Jared received an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Undergraduate Award, congrats!
Mar 2021: Dr. Yang is invited to participate the Signatures of Life in the Universe initiative by Research Corporation for Science Advancement as a Scialog Fellow.
Mar 2021: Alex won an OU Graduate Research Assistant Tuition (GReAT) Award, congrats!
Mar 2021: Jared received a highly competitive Plant Science Fellowship from MSU and will start his Ph.D. study in the fall. Congratulations Jared!
Feb 2021: We are honored to receive an NSF CAREER award that will support our research in the next five years!
Feb 2021: We received a new seed grant from MSGC/NASA.
Aug 2020: Our paper on copper-amide interactions is accepted by ACS E&SC.
Jun 2020: Dr. Yang co-chaired a hydrothermal session at the Goldschmidt Virtual Conference.
Apr 2020: Our paper on amide hydrothermal synthesis is accepted by ACS Earth & Space Chem.
Apr 2020: Our paper on mercury methylation in Lake Michigan sand dunes is published in STOTEN. Congratulations to Jared on his first first-author paper!
Apr 2020: Dr. Yang received the OU 2020 New Investigator Research Excellence Award.
Mar 2020: Jared received a Provost Undergraduate Research Award, congrats!
Feb 2020: Alexandria received a Graduate Fellowship from the Michigan Space Grant Consortium, congratulations!
Jan 2020: Our paper on copper-facilitated hydrothermal oxidative decarboxylation is published in Chem Comm, congrats!
Dec 2019: Dr. Yang received an OU URC Faculty Research Fellowship.
Oct 2019: Jared received a student travel grant from the 2019 Midwest Geobiology Symposium and gave an oral presentation at Wash U.
Oct 2019: Alexandria Aspin joined our lab as a PhD student. Welcome!
Sep 2019: Our proposed "Recycling Wetland Methane" is selected as one of the top 100 ideas by the NSF 2026 Idea Machine Competition.
Jun 2019: Our paper on mineral-enzyme interaction is published in Science of the Total Environment, congrats!
Jun 2019: Dr. Yang and Jared received a DOE Visiting Faculty/Student Fellowship to conduct research at the Oak Ridge National Lab.Â
Jun 2019: Jared Zaporski received a Kenny Merit Scholarship for the Sciences, congratulations!