Congratulations to Raiden and Aaron for conceiving of and spearheading our resonantly enhanced SHG experiments to observe electrochemically active surface metal sites during the oxygen evolution reaction on nickel anodes exposed to trace-level iron electrolyte. Read the paper in ACS Catalysis here.

Congratulations to Raiden, Lauren, and Camille for their joint “Friday afternoon” project on small polarons in hematite with Sarah King’s group of the University of Chicago and Michel Dupuis of the University of Buffalo – well done, teams!

Congratulations to Raiden, who has won one of the four ACS Physical Chemistry Graduate Student Awards in Experimental Physical Chemistry, out of over 60 nominations! The award is sponsored by The Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Reviews, APL Computational Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Thorlabs, and SCM Software for Chemistry & Materials and Read More…

Congratulations to Sarah Hurst Petrosko from the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University for leading a massive effort to formulate 33 unresolved questions in nano science and nanotechnology, published in ACS Nano.

Congratulations to Nicole and Amani, whose JACS paper reporting dehydration of oxide:water interfaces by brines is now published!

Congratulations to Camille Bridgewater for being awarded the Phi Lambda Upsilon Teaching Award for 300-level teaching (winter quantum and spring stat thermo&kinetics)! Well done and keep it up, Camille!

Congratulations to Raiden for winning the 2025 International Institute for Nanotechnology Outstanding Researcher Visionary Award! The award recognizes the best 3-minute general presentation and consists of a beautiful crystal award and a major cash prize, to be presented at the IIN Rosemary Schnell Annual Symposium on 15 October. Congratulations!!

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!