2025
January
- The Beeler group is proud to welcome 3 new students this year! Crystal Vega, Rose Milano, and Sri Manyata (Coco) Peddinti!
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February
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- Happy Valentine's Day from the Beeler lab! Stephanie, Crystal, Sophie and Xiaenne looks beautiful in pink.
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2024
December
- As the year comes to an end, we celebrated Nathan and Alexandra for their graduation, a great year as a lab, and welcoming the new students to the Beeler group!!! Such a fun celebration! Cheers everyone!
- Happy Holidays! The Beeler group had a blast at this years Chemistry Department Holiday Party! We hope everyone has a wonderful break!
November
Congratulations are in order this month!
Congratulations are in order this month!
- Congratulations to Alexandra Millimaci for successfully defending her PhD titled "Photoredox Catalyzed Cycloadditions of Carbonyl Ylides and Synthesis of Neocannabinoids" ! Congrats Dr. Millimaci! Excellent work!! We will miss you!!
- Congratulations to Nathan Hendrick for successfully defending his PhD titled "The Development of Bioconjugatable Chemical Probes Towards the Fluoro-sequencing of Proteins" ! Congrats Dr. Hendrick! Bravo! We won't be forgetting you! Knock em' dead at Prisma !!
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October
September
August
July
June
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- Congratulations to PhD Maggie Kitt on successfully defending her thesis "Development and Application of Chemoselective Oxidations for Medicinally Relevant Molecules"!!! Woo!!! Go Dr. Maggie Kitt!!! We wish you the best! Come back and visit us!
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May
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April
March
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February
- Maggie's paper "Chemoselective Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols Utilizing a Vanadium(V) Catalyst" was accepted into ACS Catalysis, Congrats!
- Congrats to Julie! Our former undergrad landed her dream job working for a cosmetic company! Julie is a Junior Chemist at Cosmax USA
January
- The Beeler group is proud to welcome 4 new students this year! Jason White, Saira Tahsin, Sophie Kelly, and TJ DiPuma!
2023
December
- Happy Holidays from the Beeler group! We're excited for next year and having new students join our lab!
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November
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October
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September
- Congratulations to Emma for winning the 2023 Director's Award for Excellence! This award is in acknowledgment for Emma's superlative efforts to aid and assist the chemistry department. Go Emma!
- Alexandra's paper is now live on JOC! [link]
August
- Congratulations to Jenn! Her application was selected as 1/30 participants to attend the 2023 Chemistry Spotlight at Pfizer and she presented a great poster!
- Congratulations to Alexandra! Her paper on Neocannabinoids was accepted into JOC! Great work!
- August Birthday Celebration! Most of the lab's birthdays are all in the month of August! Happy Birthday to you all!
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July
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- Congratulations Dr. J! PhD Jason Lenihan successfully defended his thesis! "Synthesis of Diverse Cyclobutane Scaffolds and Utilization in Total Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry" You have been so helpful and supportive to everyone in the lab! We wish you the best of luck in San Fran!
- A huge congratulations to PhD Matt Mailloux on defending his thesis! "Strategic Applications of Flow Photochemistry" We'll miss you, Snapdragon is lucky to have you! Stop by and visit us anytime
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June
May
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March
- Congratulations to Nathan and Doug! Their paper was accepted and already online! Check our publications tab for the link
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February
- Congratulations to Jenn for being awarded with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship!
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January
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2022
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November
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October
- Matt gave an excellent talk at the BSOBC this year, way-to-go Matt! And Jac and Alexandra presented posters on their research
- Jason and Alexandra won the 2022 Director's Award for Excellence from the Chemistry Department. Well-done!
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June
- Our wonderful women attended the EWOC, Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry, conference in Boston
- The group welcomes a new REU student, Crystal Vega!
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May
- Halle will be spending the summer as a Drug Metabolism Research Intern at the Gilead campus in Foster City, congrats Halle! We'll see you back in a few months!
- The group welcomes a new undergraduate researchers Easwer and Danny!
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March
- Jason and Matt's paper "Multigram Scale Synthesis of Piperarborenines C-E" was accepted to Org. Process Res. Dev.
- Congratulations to Nathan, Sara, and Jac for passing their qualifying exam for PhD candidacy!
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January
- The Group officially welcomes a new Postdoc, Jennifer Yuan. Welcome to the Group, Jen!
2021
December
- Welcome to three new graduate students, Stephanie, Ashley, and Emma!!
September
- Welcome to five new undergraduate researchers, Eddie, Gwen, Halle, Jack, and Antonin!
August
- Congratulations to Doug for defending his thesis "High-Throughput Experiment Platform Development for Machine Learning on Chemical Reactivity" successfully! Now, off to SnapDragon!
- Congratulations to Shiva for a successful thesis defense on her work "Development of Small Molecules Targeting Tumor Immune Response and Tumor Cell Metastasis"! She has accepted a position at Kronos Bio!
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June
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May
- Congratulations to our four talented undergraduates, Shruti, Victoria, Emily, and Katie on graduation from BU! We'll miss you!!!
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April
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March
- Paula and coworkers in the Whitty and Allen labs had their manuscript - "Recapitulating the Binding Affinity of Nrf2 for KEAP1 in a Cyclic Heptapeptide, Guided by NMR, X-ray Crystallography, and Machine Learning" - published in JACS!!
- Victoria has been accepted to the Tri-Institutional Program of Chemical Biology for graduate studies!
- The Beeler Group welcomes its newest - and youngest - group member into the world! Congratulations Aaron!
- Shruti has accepted a job offer at Snapdragon Chemistry! Congratulations, Shruti!!!
- Matt, Shruti, and Gabie's paper "Unified Synthesis of Azepines by Visible-Light-Mediated Dearomative Ring-Expansion of Aromatic N-Ylides" was accepted to Org. Lett.
- The Group officially welcomes new graduate students Sara, Nathan, and Xaienne! Welcome to the team!
2020
October
- Dougs paper "Reversible PCET and Ambient Catalytic Oxidative Alcohol Dehydrogenation by {V=O} Perfluoropinacolate Complexes" was accepted to Inorg. Chem.
- Happy Halloween from the Beeler Lab! ... In a 1L round-bottom flask with a magnetic stir bar, sucrose (342.3 g, 1 mol), capsaicin (305.4 g, 1 mol), and everything nice (100 g, 1 mol) were dissolved in 500 ml DI water and briefly stirred. After mixing, catalytic Chemical X (5 mol %) was added in a single portion, and the reaction mixture erupted violently yielding three superpowered humans.
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September
- Jason, Matt, and Maggie all passed their qualifying exams to receive their Masters! Congrats! Officially G3's
August
- Edwin and Alexandra's paper "Photoredox Generated Carbonyl Ylides Enable a Modular Approach to Aryltetralin, Dihydronaphthalene and Arylnaphthalene Lignans" was accepted to Org. Lett.
July
- Congratulations to Paula on a successful thesis defense on her work "Exploring Structurally Constrained Peptides as Protein-Protein Interaction Modulators"! She has accepted a position at Fog Pharma!
June
- Congratulations to Ivy Liang for successfully completing her Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Ivy has accepted a position at the Qi Lab.
March
- The Beeler lab went down to Cape Canaveral, Florida for the SpaceX CRS-20 launch!
2019
December
- Happy Holidays from the Beeler Group! This year we made a photochemis-tree using dyes from our lab as ornaments. The "star" is a 120 W blue LED lamp that we built in-house for flow photochemistry.
October
- Congratulations to Edwin on a successful thesis defense on his work "Photoredox Generated Carbonyl Ylides from Epoxides"! He has accepted a position at AstraZeneca!
- Three of our undergrads - Victoria, Shruti, and Ivy - presented their work at BU's Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Symposium.
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August
- The Beeler Research Group welcomes two new graduate students, Alexandra Millimaci and Wenli Liang!
July
- Jada began work at Boehringer-Ingelheim in Connecticut! Nice job, Jada!
June
- Alexis successfully defended her thesis "Harnessing Continuous Flow Chemistry as a Synthetic, Biological, and Educational Tool." She accepted a post-doctoral position at Smith College. Congratulations, Dr. Courtney!
- Edwin's paper "A sterically encumbered photoredox catalyst enables the unified synthesis of the classical lignan family of natural products" was accepted to Chem. Sci.
- Our undergrads are going places! Logan began work in the Qi Lab at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Jesse is headed to USC Keck School of Medicine in LA.
May
- Aaron received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry! Congratulations, Aaron!!!
- Jesse won the ACS Organic Chemistry Division Award and Jada won the American Institutes of Chemists Award and the Francis Bacon Award for Writing Excellence in the Natural Sciences. Congratulations!! Well deserved for both of you!
- Gabie successfully defended her thesis "Enabling the Buchner Ring Expansion as a Practical Synthetic Tool." She is going to work as Research Scientist I as a medicinal chemist at Vertex in June. Congratulations, Dr. Fleming!
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- Paula has been awarded the American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship! Congratulations!!! We are so proud! [link]
April
- Paula attended the Drug Discovery Chemistry Conference in San Diego and won the Drug Discovery Chemistry Poster Award! Congratulations, Paula!
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March
- Edwin and Paula applied to and were accepted to 2019 NESACS Delegation to GDCh-JCF Mainz-Wiesbaden in Germany and presented posters. Great work representing the group!
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2018
October
- Jada and Logan presented their work at the UROP poster presentation! Great work and good looking posters!
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- Congratulations to Jesse! He has been accepted to medical school!
September
- Maggie Kitt, Jason Lenihan, and Matt Mailloux have joined the lab as first year graduate students and Kaleigh Allen, Shruti Kumta, and Victoria Jordan have joined as undergraduate researchers! Lots of new faces and lots of chemistry to do! Welcome to all!
August
- Having a great send off lunch with Yann and Sean at one of our favorites - Fins! We will miss you both and wish you the best of luck moving forward!
- Congratulations to Long! His paper titled "Synthesis of Complex Stereoheptads En Route to Daphnane Diterpene Orthoesters" has been accepted to Org Lett. Great work!
- Yann has accepted a position as a synthetic organic chemist of the radiochemistry department of Seclia in London, UK! Congratulations Yann and thank you for your work this year!
- Gabie and Edwin will be attending the ACS National Meeting in Boston. Congratulations to Gabie for being awarded the Eli Lilly/Women's Chemist Committee Travel Award to support her attendance at this meeting! [link, award]
July
- Congratulations, Dr. Reem Telmesani! Reem is the second student to graduate from our group and she successfully defended her thesis on July 24! She will be starting as a Senior Scientist at Snapdragon Chemistry in September. Good luck!
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June
- Congratulations to Edwin! He has been awarded the BU Chemistry Department's Vertex Fellowship for the 2018-2019 year. Well deserved!
- Congratulations to Reem and Jada! Their paper, "Liquid‐Liquid Slug‐Flow‐Accelerated [2+2] Photocycloaddition of Cinnamates" has been published in ChemPhotoChem! [link]
- Welcoming our newest group member, Kai Beeler!
May
- Congrats to Jada and Logan on being awarded UROP funding to do research over the summer!
- Congratulations to Long for graduating on May 18, 2018!
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April
- The group had lots of fun celebrating all of our big milestones by going out to Roxy's A4cade!
- Congratulations to Shiva and Doug for successfully passing their second year qualifying exams!
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- Congratulations to Dr. Long Nguyen on his successful defense of his thesis! The first graduate from our lab! We wish you good luck as a postdoc in the Jamison lab at MIT!!!
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- Congratulations to Gabie for winning the Three Minute Thesis Competition put on by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences! [link]
January
- Check out this video promoting BU Summer Challenge - a program that Alexis, Reem, and Doug all taught for. Alexis was interviewed to talk about the program! [link]
- Aaron was awarded a grant from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) titled "High-Throughput Chemistry Platform (HTCP) for Reaction Screening." [link]
2017
December
- Our work "Regioselective and Enantioselective Intermolecular Buchner Ring Expansions in Flow" ([link]) has been chosen as a highlighted article in Organic Process Research and Development "Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers" Highlights from the Literature, December 2017 [link]
- Alexis has been accepted into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars Program. This year long program aquaints graduate students with the fundamental concepts and core practices of the SoTL, a field of inquiry that examines the intersection of instruction and student learning across disciplines in higher education. Congratulations!
- Gabie's work, titled "Regioselective and Enantioselective Intermolecular Buchner Ring Expansions in Flow" has been published in Organic Letters. Congrats! [link]
- Yann Corre has joined the group as a Post Doctoral Fellow. Yann earned his Ph.D. from the University of Lille in 2015, followed by a post doctoral position at University of Grenoble. Welcome, Yann!
- Logan Sigua has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher and will be working with Gabie. Welcome!
- Ashley Antico has joined the group for the summer as a GROW high school student and will be working with Reem and Shiva.
- Han and Qiwen's paper, "A Photochemical Flow Reactor for Large Scale Syntheses of Aglain and Rocaglate Natural Product Analogs" was accepted into Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry. Congratulations! [link]
- Zechariah Diaz-Grace has joined the lab as an REU researcher this summer. He comes to us from Norfolk State University and he will be working with Gabie. Welcome!
- Aaron was awarded the 2017 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Education! [link]
- Congratulations to Paula for passing her qualifying exam!! So fun to celebrate with the Whitty lab, where she has a joint appointment!
- Congratulations to Edwin! His paper, "Redesign of a Pyrylium Photoredox Catalyst and Its Application to the Generation of Carbonyl Ylides" was accepted in Organic Letters. Great work! [link]
- Our group outing at Sacco's Bowl Haven is always a favorite!! Some friendly competition going on...!
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April
- Sean, Paula, Reem, Alexis, and Gabie participated in the March for Science today! It was a great day!!
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- Gabie and Reem attended and presented posters at the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference hosted by YCC at Harvard. Reem was awarded the "Most Promising Female Chemist" Award. Congratulations!
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- Reem was presented an award for giving the best presentation at Fruhjahrssymposium in Mainz. Congratulations!
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March
- Reem applied and was accepted to 2017 NESACS Delegation to GDCh-JCF Mainz-Wiesbaden in Germany. [link] Have fun!
- Our group attended the Center for CH Functionalization C-H activation Virtual Symposium, with talks by Seth Marder, Sarah Reisman, Erik Sorensen, and Peter Zhang. Fantastic series and opportunity to hear about some great work!
February
- Jada White (CAS '19) has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher working with Reem. Welcome!
2016
November
- Congratulations to Jessie and Han on their paper, "Identification of Anti-Prion Compounds Using a Novel Cellular Assay" recently accepted into Journal of Biochemistry! [link]
- Jesse Mendoza (CAS '19) has joined the group as a undergraduate researcher working with Edwin. Welcome!
- Doug Fraser and Shiva Dastjerdi have joined the lab as first year graduate students. Welcome!!
- Our street piano is featured in BU Today! http://www.bu.edu/today/2016/chemistry-themed-street-piano/
- Our street piano will be placed at the Museum of Science!
- An article has been published on "Caught in Southie" about our piano! http://www.caughtinsouthie.com/features/play-me-im-yours-2/
- Welcome to the new first year students!
- Congratulations to Han, Randolph, and Oscar on their HDAC8 paper published in ACS Med Chem Letters! [link]
August
- Congratulations to our REU student, Diana, and our GROW high school student, Stella, for presenting their summer work at poster sessions this week!
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July
June
- We submitted an application and were selected to design a piano dedicated to chemistry on the premise that Boston is arguably the world leader in science and it would be great to represent that aspect of the city in this public art exhibit. We were excited to be selected and now have a piano to be decorated! Take a look at our Street Piano page to learn more and submit your favorite molecule!
June
- Nicky Eleuteri and Qiwen Gao have joined the lab as undergraduate researchers and Diana Diaz will be working in the lab for the summer as an REU student with Edwin. Welcome!
- Congratuations to Edwin for being awarded the NSF GK12 Fellowship! [link]
- Congratulations to Tessa and Rachel on graduating! We will miss you!
April
- Congratulations to Alexis for receiving the CAS Outstanding TF Award!
- As members of BU Women in Chemistry, Alexis (Outreach Coordinator), Gabie (Secretary), and Reem (President) hosted a number of local high school students for the annual Chemistry Day event. They performed a number of fun and educational experiments.
- Congratulations to Rachel and Tessa for being accepted into fantastic graduate school programs! Rachel will be attending University of California Berkeley and Tessa will be attending University of Chicago. We are so proud of you both!!
- Tessa and Rachel presented their senior presentations to the department and received a number of awards. Tessa was awarded the service award for the Department of Chemistry and Rachel was awarded the Mason Award, the College Prize for Excellence, the Organic Chemistry Award, and she was officially named Valedictorian of this class. Congratulations!!
March
- Congratulations to Gabie and Edwin for passing their second year qualifying exams!
- Reem and Alexis hosted Upward Bound for a week of fun and educational chemistry!
Alexis and Reem with the Upward Bound group!
February
- Congratulations to Aaron for being awarded the NSF Career Grant! [link]
2015
October
September
August
- Alexis, Long, and Reem represented the group and presented posters at the BSOBC.
September
- Sean and Aaron's book chapter Photochemistry in Flow in Photochemistry: Volume 43 has been published.
August
- Alexis, Long, Sean, and Rachel represented the group and presented posters at ACS Boston.
Alexis and Rachel at Rachel's presentation
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Alexis' poster
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July
May
- Congratulations Reem, Sung, and Tessa on your publication [2+2] Photocycloaddition of Cinnamates in Flow and Development of a Thiourea Catalyst in Angewandte Chemie International Edition!
May
- Congratulations to Morgan, Jessie, and Sharon for graduating with their B.A. in Chemistry!
Sharon, Morgan, and Jessie
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Tessa and Rachel
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Morgan receiving his award
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Check out some demos we performed for the students!
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Methane Mamba!
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April
- The first years hosted Upward Bound to do some fun and educational chemistry for the week!
Edwin, Gabie, and the Upward Bound students in the lab!
March
January
- Congratulations to Alexis and Reem on successfully completing their qualifying examinations!
- Paula Ortet has joined the lab as a first year graduate student from the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (MCBB) Program, jointly appointed with the Whitty lab!
January
- Kayla Myers has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher.
2014
December
- Congratulations to Alexis and Reem for winning the Chemistry Department Photo Contest with their Electrophile and Nucleophile Halloween costumes!
- Alexis, Gabie, and Reem also won the GWISE ugly sweater contest with their "Rocking Around the Chemist-Tree" Christmas sweaters!
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September
August
- Edwin Alfonzo and Gabrielle Fleming have joined the lab as first year graduate students and Rachel Rosen has joined the lab as an undergraduate researcher!
August
- Sean and Reem represented the lab at ACS San Francisco by presenting their research at the poster session!
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June
May
- Congratulations Kristen on your new position as lecturer at Brandeis University!
- Tessa Colameta, Jessie Zhen, and Morgan Myers have joined the lab as undergraduate researchers.
May
- Alexis and Reem had a chance to attend a round table discussion with Dr. Mayim Lialik, also known as Amy Farrah Fowler on "The Big Bang Theory"
- Con-"grad"-ulations Anastasia Voevodin and Anjeza Beharaj, BU Chemistry Class of 2014!
- Congratulations Sharon on receiving the Anne Gounaris Scholarship!
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April
- Congratulations Anastasia on passing your honors thesis defense!
- Congratulations Anastatia on completing the Boston Marathon in 3:30:10; we are so proud of you!
March
- Congratuations to Sean and Long for successfully completing their second year oral examinations!
2013
September
August
July
- Sharon Liu has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher
August
- Reem Telmesani has joined the group as a first year graduate student.
July
- Alexis Courtney has joined the group as a first year graduate student.
