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The lab having group lunch featuring east-coast seafood after a busy morning at the GRC in Smithfield, RI.

Our undergrad researcher, Leo Morag (Chemistry, '24), graduated last weekend and is on his way to pursue a PhD degree at CalTech. Congratulations🎓🎊, Leo!

Group camping trip at Sherwin Creek! (Please be sure to read the SDS for s̶a̶f̶e̶ proper storage and handling of undergrads)

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our beloved friend, colleague, and mentor, Professor Jeff Byers. You will be missed forever, may you rest in peace!

Celebratory dinners and lunch for our newly graduates: Dr. Deng, Dr. Hern and Dr. Shen!!! Congratulations and wish you all the very best in your future endeavors!

Check out our new preview in @ChemCatalysis by @Chem_Joon on vanadium photocatalyzed C-C bond cleavage here! doi.org/10.1016/j.chec…

Getting in the mood for spooky season

@organomimetic @NIGMS Congrats!!

Big thanks to @NIGMS for renewing our MIRA award for another 5 years. It’s really nice to have a continuous long term funding mechanism allowing us to pursue basic research interfacing inorganic chemistry with problems in bioconjugation, imaging and recognition.

If you're attending ACS in Chicago this week, check out a talk from our center leader Paula Diaconescu (@DiaconescuLab) on redox switchable polymerization! It'll be held Monday August 22nd from 3:25 - 3:45 PM in room W183b in the McCormick Place Convention Center.

Congrats to Paula Diaconescu of @DiaconescuLab for being elected as the 2023 Vice-Chair and 2024 Chair for the Organometallics Gordon Conferences!

If you’re heading to the Organometallic GRC #OMGRC, look out for presentations from our center PIs Paula Diaconescu (@DiaconescuLab) and Jeff Byers (@j_a_byers) on our center’s work!

Congrats to our latest graduates, Ashton (MS, off to @MIT for grad school), Nathalie (BS, off to @UCBerkeley for grad school), and Matt (BS, grad school at @UCLA)!! So excited to see what you all accomplish!

3/21/2022 (Monday) 8:30 AM in PMSE division (paper #3657149) Paula Diaconescu @DiaconescuLab: "Redox switchable polymerization"

3/22/2022 (Tuesday) 9:25 AM in Inorganic Chemistry division (paper# 3657152) Paula Diaconescu @DiaconescuLab: "Electrochemically controlled copolymerization with a redox switchable catalyst"

@j_a_byers @ByersLabBC @ChemistryBC @BostonCollege Many congrats and so well deserved!!

After hacking through the snow for 1 h, I got to my mailbox, which contained this letter! Thanks to past and present @ByersLabBC members, @ChemistryBC faculty and students, @BostonCollege colleagues, and all my collaborators and friends for their continued support! #fullprofessor

Thanks very much @TCD_Chemistry for sharing - we are delighted to see this published, plus our thanks go to all authors including @peterjunk2 @TEAS_Actinides @MazzantiLab @GregNocton @DiaconescuLab @ConradGoodwin @JvanSlageren and so many non-tweeps, including the Baker group!

Me when I knock over the container of sieves in the glovebox

Join us for our first webinar of 2022! Prof Feng Jiao will discuss the ins of electrocatalysis for CO2 utilization next Tuesday February 2nd at 1:30 PM ET (10:30 AM PT).

Our latest work on electrochemically controlled switchable catalysis is out in @J_A_C_S! Congrats @zachhern, @amylai_, @whattodohowtodo and the rest of the team. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…