Damien Named James W. Westwater Professorial Scholar
Congratulations to Damien for being named a James W. Westwater Professorial Scholar. You can read more about this distinction here.
Yash, Keelee, Kaitlyn, and Joanna @ IMAC
Several of our lab members recently attended the annual Inorganic Materials Allerton Conference (IMAC). Yash and Keelee were selected to give talks and Kaitlyn was selected to present a poster. Congrats and good work!
Congratulations Yash!
Congratulations to Dr. Kamble for successfully defending. Thanks to Yash for an excellent presentation and being an irreplaceable part of our group. We'll never forget all the mentorship and lessons you've given us and the great memories we've made together. Good luck with the next step of your journey in Texas as a Postdoc with Prof. Kaiwen Hsiao!
Lab Outing at LabEscape
We kinda crushed LabEscape... we beat the top time by 7 min! Go G-Gang!! (https://labescape.org)
Congratulations Damien!
Congratulations to Damien for receiving the 2024 Dean's Award for Innovation Impact! This award recognizes exceptional individuals who are working at the early stages of the innovation life cycle to turn their research into products that benefit the world. Candidates are selected from the pool of faculty who filed and were awarded patents in the previous academic year. You can read more here.
May 2023 Updates
Our work and accomplishments have followed us towards the end of the spring semester see below!
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- Yash has received the A.T. Widiger Fellowship Departmental Fellowship -This award supports students who demonstrate an interest in health or material science research.
- Jerry received the ChBE Graduate Student Teaching Award (ChBE 422, SP 23) -This recognizes students for their exceptional contributions to ChBE instructional mission during the '22-'23 academic year.
- Vanessa received a C^2 Outstanding Mentor Award for her work with undergraduate student scholars in the Chemistry and ChBE department.
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April 2023 Updates
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- Congratulations to our new Dr. Susannah Miller! She Defended April 5th on her research on catalyst encapsulation; we are all very proud of her and excited to see her move onto her new chapter. Here's a picture of her cutting her cake:
In April we also congratulate Vanessa DaSilva, who passed her Preliminary Exam! Great job!
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December 2022 Updates
November 2022 Updates
We have welcomed a new graduate student, Michael Taleff to the lab!
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October 2022 Updates
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- We celebrate Susannah who won 1st place in oral presentations and Yash who won 2nd place in poster presentations during the 21st Annual Graduate Research Symposium! They were later awarded during the Graduate and Alumni Awards Ceremony. Great work you two!
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- This recent news article discusses our work on deconstructing plastic waste.
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- Jerry has passed his first year qualification exam, congrats Jerry!
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September 2022 Updates
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- Vanessa, Nick, Damien, and collaborators have published a manuscript on the Depolymerization of PE to propylene on 9/27! Read more here!
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- Check us out at the first Thursday Illini Football game of the season!
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