MJA has been awarded a Lillian ("Pauline") Cobb Faculty Travel Fellowship for International Teaching and Service from NIU.
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Indianapolis was the site of the 246th National ACS Meeting, and MJA traveled there to deliver a talk on the group’s work toward a dynamic covalent molecular switch. MJA Lab collaborator Prof. Brendan Dutmer (Highland Community College) also presented a poster on the computational work he and his students have been conducting (along with Prof. Tom Gilbert, NIU) to investigate silicon Lewis acidity in some of the MJA Lab systems. MJA was also reunited with many former colleagues, including D.Phil. student Daniel Yin and Dr. Sam Thompson (University of Oxford), pictured above.
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MJA and Vlad took a road trip to South Bend, Indiana for the 5th Annual Chicago Organic Symposium. The day was spent hearing about fantastic chemistry and visiting with wonderful people in the very impressive Jordan Hall of Science at University of Notre Dame. Vlad had many visitors to his poster and enlightened them all about the great work he is doing in the lab.
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MJA embarked on a brief speaking tour, from the southern USA to the great white north.
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Congratulations to Jesse, Ermal, Caitlin, and Brian for their excellent work, officially published today online in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. This is a landmark achievement for the lab, especially for the three undergraduates on the paper (Jesse, Ermal, and Caitlin) who joined the group before we even owned a rotovap. Special shout out to Jesse for his phenomenal art, which got us the cover!
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MJA Lab undergraduate Vlad Skrypai was awarded the NIU Undergraduate ACS Award in Organic Chemistry at the NIU Chem Club banquet held on April 25, 2013. Congratulations to Vlad!
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MJA Lab undergraduates Stefanie and Asim presented their work at the 2013 NIU Undergraduate Research & Artistry Day. They were fantastic representatives for the lab and the department, and made us all very proud with their presentations.
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Matt Zielinski, Stefanie DeVlieger, and Vlad Skrypai presented posters at the 245th National ACS Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Learning chemistry, making friends, and spreading The MJA Lab gospel...nothing wrong with that!
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The MJA Lab has been awarded a 2013 Research & Artistry Grant from NIU. The grant, entitled ‘Synthesis and Evaluation of Silicon Lewis Acid Catalysts’, will help to fund our research efforts this summer and beyond.
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