Wednesday, January 27, 2010

CENTC congratulates recent graduates

The Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis extends congratulations to two recent graduates:

Chris Waidmann was a graduate student with Prof. James Mayer at the University of Washington. Chris’ dissertation title is "Investigating Proton Coupled Electron Transfers in Oxovanadium and Dimeric Copper-Oxo Systems: The Importance of Intrinsic Barriers and Reaction Driving Force".

Sabuj Kundu, a graduate student at Rutgers University with Prof. Alan Goldman, wrote his thesis on “Reactions of (PCP)Ir Complexes With Small Molecules”.

Congratulations CENTC graduates!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Three CENTC investigators elected as AAAS Fellows

CENTC investigators R. Thomas Baker (Univ. of Ottawa), William Jones (Univ. of Rochester) and Huimin Zhao (Univ. of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign) have been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS recognizes Fellows for their contributions to science and technology.

Read the press release and full list of elected Fellows.


New AAAS Fellows Baker, Jones and Zhao