News and Events Archive


News and Events

March 2019: 
Doug defended his Master's thesis. Congratulations Doug! Major Banning has been stationed in FL. We wish him and his family the best of luck with his new assignment. Thank you for your service!  

Brandon defended his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Brandon Crockett! 

Brantly defended his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Brantly Fulton! Brantly has started a company LAMAR Enterprises.  

Jeremy, Chun-Lin, and Hannah's paper is accepted into Org. Chem. Front. Congrats all! Read "Synthesis, photophysical properties, and self-dimerization studies of 2-λ5-phosphaquinolin-2-ones" here: DOI: 10.1039/C9QO00199A


February 2019:
Chun-Lin, Jeremy, and Jess's paper is accepted into Angew. Chem. Congrats all! Read "Exploiting the hydrogen bond donor/acceptor properties of PN-heterocycles: Selective anion receptors for hydrogen sulfate" here: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201814431

January 2019: 
Jess, Chun-Lin, and Trevor's paper is accepted into Chem. Commun. Congrats all! Read "Methanesulfonyl-polarized halogen bonding enables strong halide recognition in an aryletheynyl anion receptor" here: DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09251F

Rotation student Nick Gallman joins the lab for the Winter term on the Thiocylcophane project. Welcome Nick! 

Undergraduates Elizabeth Smith and Russell Nickels join the lab. Welcome Elizabeth and Russell! 

Hazel and Sean are both awarded inaugural Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholar Mentorships. Congratulations Hazel and Sean! 

Ian and Russell are both appointed inaugural Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars. Congratulations Ian and Russell! 

December 2018: 

Trevor successfully completed his 6th term exam and advanced to candidacy. Congratulations Trevor! 

Hazel's paper in collaboration with the Pluth lab is accepted to Chem Sci. Congratulations Hazel and team! Read "Expanding reversible chalcogenide binding: Supramolecular receptors for the hydroselenide (HSe-) anion" here: DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03968B

November 2018: 
Susan defended her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Susan Cooper! Susan will be completing a post-doc at the University of Copenhagen. 

Ngoc-Minh's paper is accepted to Chem Comm. Congratulations Ngoc-Minh. Read "Copper(II) serves as an efficient additive for metal-directed self-assembly of over 20 thiacyclophanes" here: DOI: 10.1039/C8CC08095J

September 2018: 
Lisa's paper is accepted to Chem Comm. Congratulations Lisa, Jess, and the rest of the team! Read "Conformationally flexible arylethynyl bis-urea receptors bind disparate oxoanions with similar, high affinities" here: DOI: 10.1039/C8CC07301E

Happy start of a new academic year! 

Welcome first year rotation students Julia Fehr, Grace Lindquist, and James May for Fall term. 

August 2018: 
Susan's paper "Insights into Magnetic Properties of Sub-10 nm Iron Oxide Nanocrystals through the Use of a Continuous Growth Synthesis" is published in Chemistry of Materials! Nice work Susan and colleagues! Check out their paper here: DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b02389

July 2018: 
Thais and Jordan are both awarded Graduate Student Awards for Excellence in Teaching of Chemistry. Thais for her work with Majors Track Organic Chemistry Labs and Jordan for his with Honors General Chemistry Labs. Congratulations to you both! 

June 2018: 
MSI REU Student Emma Choy (Claremont McKenna College) joins the lab for the summer. Emma is working with Trevor and Ngoc-Minh on the thiocylcophane project. Be on the look-out for some exciting work coming out of that project! 

Thais de Faria permanently joins the lab on the sensing project. Welcome to the lab, Thais! 

Nichole graduates from UO with a Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry. She was awarded the Inorganic Chemistry Achievement award at graduation! Congratulations Nikki and good luck in your future endeavors! 

First year student and former REU student Julia Fehr joins the lab for a summer/fall rotation. Welcome back, Julia! 

Susan gives a talk at the ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering conference in Portland. 

Lisa is awarded a teaching fellowship with the Science Literacy Program (SLP) as the Graduate Education Mentor. Lisa will work with SLP to develop science education and communication curriculum for graduate students and faculty to implement in undergraduate science courses. Congratulations Lisa! 

May 2018: 
Ngoc-Minh, Hazel, Jeremy, and Jordan all successfully passed their candidacy exams. All four second-years are officially PhD Candidates! Congratulations all! 

Hazel is awarded a Dixon Fellowship. Hazel will use her fellowship to complete the Lens of the Market program. 

April 2018: 
Darren is awarded the Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professorship in Transformational Science and Mathematics! Congratulations Darren! Information on this endowed professorship can be found here. 

Trevor is awarded an NSF-GRFP Fellowship! Congratulations Trevor! 

Spring rotation student Bridget Daly joins the lab. Welcome! 

March 2018:
Congratulations to Meredith for earning a NSF Graduate Research Internship at the Smithsonian in DC for the Summer! 

Congratulations to Lizzie for earning an internship at Micron Technology in Boise, ID this Summer! Lizzie will be working as a Metal Thin-Films Process Development Engineer Intern. 

Lisa, Brandon, and Brantly traveled to ACS New Orleans to present their research. 

February 2018: 
Ngoc-Minh and DWJ Lab graduate Dr. Mary Collins publish a paper in Inorganic Chem. Check it out here: DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02716

January 2018: 
Winter rotation students Thais De Faria and Raina Krivina join the lab! Welcome! 


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