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Congratulations to MONET team member Bradley Olsen on being named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society !

Congratulations to Rebekka Klausen, recipient of the 2021 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry ! Quoting Jillian Buriak (U. Alberta) in C&EN: “Professor Klausen’s work on polysilane chemistry is absolutely groundbreaking not only from a nanoscience viewpoint, but due to the smashing of preconceived notions of silicon chemistry, silicon can finally be viewed as much more than a poor relative of carbon in terms of synthetic chemistry. She has shaken up the world by showing that one can truly synthesize precise and controlled silicon-based molecules, and by extension, silicon nanomaterials.”

Congratulations to Julia Kalow, w ho was recently named one of only 4 recipients of the AAAS's 2021 Marion Milligan Mason award ! The biennial award, which grants $55,000 each to four or five early-career female scientists conducting basic research in the chemical sciences, is funded from a $2.2 million bequest to AAAS in Mason’s will to both support women in chemistry and honor her own family’s commitment to women’s education. The award winners are selected through a two-stage review process. Research proposals are subjected to criteria that include the potential of their research to advance knowledge and understanding in their field and beyond and to benefit society.

We’re happy for Julia Kalow and Heather Kulik, recipients of the 2021 Sloan Foundation Fellowships in Chemistry !

MONET Senior Investigator Nicole Steinmetz was named to the Beaker Top 23 Women in Academic Entrepreneurship. These are researchers who have pioneered highly transformative technologies that have translated to the clinic.

MONET Postdoc and foundational member Scott Danielsen has accepted an Assistant Professor positon at Georgia Institute of Technology. He will join the GT School of Materials Science & Engineering in January 2024 where his group will work on the structure and rheology of soft materials, polymers, and biological fluids. Congratulations Scott!

MONET Senior Investigator Nancy Sottos was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences as part of the 2022 elected cohort. Congratulations Nancy!

Devosmita Sen (Olsen lab graduate student) and Ana Paula Kitos Vasconcelos (Nelson lab graduate student) have been elected as trainee representatives to the Year 4 leadership team. Devosmita will support Innovation, and Ana Paula will support Higher Education & Professional Development. Thanks to them both and to Steven Chapman who will rotate off after two years of service.

Our 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience participants begin soon. Welcome Madelyn, Sean, Twila, and Xavier!

The 2023 in-person meeting before the ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans. A day of talking science and exploring new directions in Broader Impacts!

Klausen lab postdoc Kelsie Wentz was named a Future Faculty Scholar by the ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE). Kelsie will provide a technical talk at the ACS Fall Meeting in Denver, and participate in a networking reception with other Future Faculty Scholars, keynote speakers, and selected invited guests from academia and other sectors.

In this article, researchers from the Klausen, Kulik, Moore, Kalow, Sottos, and Johnson labs highlight the use of a comonomer strategy for silyl ether exchange yielding deconstruction and bulk remolding in pDCPD thermosets. Article Link