Congratulations to Lauren Martin, who was awarded the PLU L. Carroll King Award for Excellence in 100-level Teaching! All this while already on a roll with several major science projects, including one already submitted – keep it up, Lauren, well done!

Congratulations to Raiden, who has been named a Burwell Fellow! The Fellowship is named after the late Robert Burwell, an eminent physical chemist known for his pioneering work in heterogeneous catalysis who also chaired our department from 1952-7 and was the Ipatieff Professor at Northwestern University from 1970-80. Big shoes to fill, Raiden, so keep Read More…

Congratulations to Sarah Opoku, who won a Weinberg College Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to work on our joint atmospheric aerosol and cloud formation project with Regan Thomson. Congratulations, Sarah!

Congratulations to Raiden on hi Ryan Fellowship, which recognizes and “supports graduate students dedicated to the exploration of fundamental nanoscale science and to advancing this knowledge into practical applications to benefit society”.  This major two-year award comes with an additional $10k stipend and $2500 research award per year. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Ezra Marker for winning a top poster presentation prize at the Interfaces for Energy and the Environment Conference!  Their work was on operando vibrational SFG spectroscopy of nickel electrodes.  

Congratulations to recently minted Dr. Melissa Meder’s lead-author paper on employing autoxidation studies on selectively deuterated alpha-pinene to reveal the importance of multiple branching pathways.

Congratulations to Amani and Nicole, whose paper on the total potential and interfacial structure at silica:water interfaces under hydrothermal conditions was just accepted at JACS – it’s also a blueprint for how to build a phase-resolved SHG spectrometer for under $50k!

We’re on a roll: this is our second e-chem paper, this time on nanolayer hematite semiconductor anodes, showing that water flipping appears to be applicable to more materials classes than just metals – it also makes an important step towards elucidating causality in catalytic efficiency and the net work associated with water flipping.

Congratulations to Raiden and Ezra, who’s water flipping over nickel nanolayers electrodes just got published in Science Advances – well done, and well worth the long haul!

Raiden Speelman will co-chair the 2027 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRCS in Il Ciocco, Italy – strada da percorrere, Raiden!!