I highly encourage grad students and postdocs who wish to pursue a career at a primarily undergraduate institution to apply to the Institute for Future PUI Faculty at Lafayette College. It's a really great program! sites.lafayette.edu/puiinstitute/
The Vassar Chemistry Department is looking for a full-time (full benefits!) lecturer in organic chemistry. The position has a renewable 3-year contract offering significant stability in these unstable times. Please spread the word far and wide!
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Oh dang! Double advisor awards!
Congrats to this year’s ACS awardees with a special shoutout to my former advisor, Josh Figueroa, for receiving the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry!! I look forward to celebrating at ACS Atlanta in the spring!
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My first independent grant is being funded thanks to @acs.org #PRF!! Excited to continue training bright @vassar.bsky.social undergraduates in our pursuit of alkane functionalization. Best job ever!! #PUI #SLAC
Sincere thanks to my colleague Alison Spodek Keimowitz and my student Sophia Lynch for organizing. It was a fantastic restart to our chemistry department seminar series after a long hiatus!
A belated thank you to my friend and former labmate Brandon Barnett @barnettlabur.bsky.social for meeting with Vassar students and faculty last week to share some of his group’s exciting work!
The Accounts of Chemical Research on our work on transition metal hydricity is finally out! Thanks to GS (soon to be Dr.) Andrew Cypcar who put in a tremendous amount of work to get it finished! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Black and white cat sitting on my shoulder
He looks like my JoJo!
I’m super excited to introduce the first members of the Drance Lab, Sophia Lynch (‘25) and Junhyeok Park (‘27), supported by the Undergraduate Research Summer Internship #URSI @Vassar. Can’t wait to teach these rising stars the beauty of air-free chemistry!