Ozerov Group News

 

August 2013	Morgan, Loren, Chun-I, Nate, Jill, Chelsea, Chandra, John, and Jessica attend the BASF Symposium
	Morgan, Jill, Nate, and Chun-I present posters, Jessica gives an oral presentation at the BASF Symp.
	Jessica wins 1st place for her oral presentation, Nate wins 2nd place for his poster at the BASF Symp.
July 2013	Rafael defends, and passes his Ph.D. exam
	Oleg and Chun-I attend/present at the Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference in RI.
June 2013	Oleg attends and presents at the INEOS Symposium in Moscow, honoring Russian colleague Mark Vol'pin
	REU student John Dekarske, class of 2014 Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, joins the O group for the summer
May 2013	Undergrad Nathanael (Nate) Hirscher, U. of Virginia class of 2014, joins the O group for the summer
	The O group welcomes back TAMU undergrads Chan Park and Samantha Yreugas, working for the summer
April 2013	Dr. David Milstein of the Weizmann Institute, involved in a collaborative project with Oleg, visits Texas A&M
	Jessica receives the 2013 International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Student Award
	Oleg gives a talk and Loren presents a poster at the Natl. ACS Mtg. in New Orleans
	Chandra passes his preliminary exam
March 2013	Chun-I wins 1st prize for his graduate poster presentation at Student Research Week at TAMU
	Chelsea wins the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research
	Chelsea wins Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Fellowship Award
December 2012	Loren passes his preliminary exam
November 2012	Jessica passes her preliminary exam
October 2012	Wei-Chun Shih joins the O group
September 2012	Oleg leaves for a series of European conferences and seminar presentations, including the Intl. Conf. on Organometallic Chemistry in Lisbon, Portugal and the Intl. Conf. on Catalysis in Organic Synthesis in Moscow, Russia, and invited guest speaker at Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France
August 2012	Oleg, Jessica, Chandra, Billy, Chan, and Samantha attend/present at the ACS Conference in Philadelphia
	Chris Pell rejoins the O group
July 2012	Oleg and Morgan present group research at the Organometallic Gordon Conference in Newport, RI
	Chelsea Mandell joins the O group
	Chrissy passes her final defense, and leaves for her teaching position in League City, TX
	Missy and Samantha present their summer research at the REU Poster Session
June 2012	REU student Melissa (Missy) Schumacher joins the group for the summer
	Undergrad group members Chan and Samantha also participate in REU for the summer
May 2012	Oleg travels to California for the CCI Solar site review
April 2012	Oleg visits southern California and gives talks at Caltech and UCLA
	Chrissy, soon to graduate, accepts a chemistry teaching position at Clear Springs HS for fall 2012
	Weixing and wife welcome a new baby boy
	Oleg visits Toronto and gives talks at several area universities
March 2012	Jill, Sam, Chun-I, Rafael, and Oleg attend/give presentations at the ACS Conf. in San Diego
	Oleg receives the Pure Chemistry national award at the ACS conference
February 2012	Oleg receives the Welch Foundation's Norman Hackerman Award. See the press release and video.
January 2012	Yanjun leaves the group for a position as Process Scientist at Momentive in Tarrytown, NY
	Oleg, Chandra, Jessica, Jill, and Samantha attend the annual CCI Solar Retreat
December 2011	Yanjun defends, and receives her Ph.D.
	Jill passes her preliminary exam
November 2011	Chandra, Sam, Jessica, Chun-I, and Rodrigo attend/present posters at the ACS SWRM in Austin
	Chun-I passes his preliminary exam
October 2011	Oleg is notified that he will receive the prestigious ACS Pure Chemistry Award for 2012
	Weixing leaves for a postdoctoral position at Northwestern University under Tobin Marks
September 2011	Weixing defends, and receives his Ph.D.
	Dave leaves the group for a postdoctoral position at Caltech under Theo Agapie
	Sam passes his preliminary examination
	Undergrads Samantha Yruegas and Chan Park join the Ozerov group
August 2011	Chris concludes his REU summer and returns to studies at SUNY-Plattsburgh
June 2011	REU student Chris Pell joins the group for the summer
	Chrissy marries Dave Brammell at a romantic beach setting in the Bahamas
May 2011	Billy & fam. leave for his SMART internship at Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Div., China Lake, CA
	Billy is formally admitted to candidacy for PhD program
April 2011	Dan leaves the group and returns to the UK
	Billy passes his preliminary examination
March 2011	Dan, Dave, and Oleg present at the Anaheim ACS meeting
	Rafael passes his preliminary examination
January 2011	Rafael presents at the annual CCI Solar retreat
	Elynna wins a scholarship to attend Wash U in St. Louis
	Linda Redd joins the group as the new administrative assistant
	Justin leaves the group to start his faculty position in Missouri
	Claudia Fafard (PhD 2009) earns a position with Air Liquide
December 2010	Oleg organizes a C-F Activation symposium at Pacifichem-2010
	Doris graduates and leaves for greener pastures
	The IT PureSolv system is delivered
	Oleg presents at the SWRM/SERMACS in New Orleans
November 2010	Rodrigo passes his preliminary examination
October 2010	Second batch of Vigor gloveboxes arrives, now nine total
	Chandra Mouli Palit joins the group
August 2010	Rafael, Rodrigo, and Oleg present at the Boston ACS meeting
	Adam concludes REU stint to return to studies at Bloomsburg U
July 2010	Oleg presents at the Organometallic Gordon Conference
June 2010	Justin presents at Notre Dame and at the Inorganic Gordo
	Jessica DeMott returns to the group as a research assistant
	Chrissy Hamill returns to the group yet again, now as a new graduate student
	Oleg presents at the DOE-BES Catalysis Sciences meeting in Annapolis, MD
May 2010	Adam Miller joins the group as an REU participant
	Dave presents at the 2010 CSC in Toronto
	Congratulations to Justin Walensky on a faculty position at U Missouri, starting next year
	Aaron graduates, gets a job with ExxonMobil, sticks around for a bit
	Dan, Rafael, and Oleg participate in the CCI Solar site review
	Oleg joins the Advisory Editorial Board of Chemical Science
April 2010	Aaron wins the undergraduate award by the ACS Div. of Inorganic Chemistry
	Weixing wins the Schmude, Jr. Endowed Graduate Student Scholarship
	New GC instrument delivered and installed
March 2010	Billy wins the SMART Scholarship
	Aaron, Yanjun, Chrissy and Oleg present at the San Francisco ACS meeting
January 2010	Rafael, Billy, Aaron, Elynna, and Oleg present at the CCI Solar retreat in CA
November 2009	Dan Smith joins the group as a postdoc
October 2009	Elynna Youm joins the group to work on a Solar Shark project
	New graduate students Chun-I Lee, Loren Press, and Sam Timpa join the group
	Dave Herbert joins the group as a postdoc
August 2009	Oleg presents at the Int'l Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry
	Chrissy departs to complete her senior year of college at Westminster
	Panida departs the group for a fellowship in MPI-Muelheim, Germany
July 2009	Jill Davidson joins the group
	Weixing, Panida, and Oleg at the Organometallic Gordo
	New UV-Vis spectrometer delivered
June 2009	Oleg presents at the Inorganic Gordo
	Five new Vigor gloveboxes delivered and installed
	Alyssa Young joins the group
May 2009	Chrissy Hamill returns for another REU stint
	Aaron Hollas joins the group
	Rodrigo Ramirez joins the group
April 2009	Claudia defends, joins the Thomas group as a postdoc
	Doris Maduka joins the group as an administrative assistant
February 2009	Oleg, Rafael, Billy, and Dan attend the CCI retreat and the Solar Fuels GRC
January 2009	Deborha leaves the group
	Our 150+ shipping boxes arrive to TAMU
	Weixing and Yanjun arrive to Texas
	The group officially joins CCI Solar
	Panida Surawatanawong joins the group
	Oleg is appointed professor of chemistry with tenure
December 2008	Oleg treks to Texas; Claudia and Deborha stay at Brandeis
	Oleg receives courtesy adjunct appointment at Brandeis for 2009
	Oleg resigns position at Brandeis to leave for Texas A&M
	The Great Giveaway of the lab takes place
	Dan Graham switches to the Thomas group
November 2008	Nagaraj leaves the group
October 2008	Billy McCulloch and Rafael Huacuja pre-join the group at Texas A&M
September 2008	Baofei switches groups to join Prof. Christine Thomas
August 2008	Science Paper comes out, gets Press Reaction
	Sam Timpa and Chrissy Hamill return to home bases after an REU summer
	Six posters and two talks at the Philly ACS meeting
July 2008	Laura Gerber returns to the group for several weeks
	Oleg presents at the Organometallic Gordon Conference
	Yanjun presents at the Gordon Graduate Seminar in Organometallic Chemistry
June 2008	Chris leaves the group to start a postdoc at University of Colorado
	Christina Hamill and Sam Timpa join the group as REU participants
May 2008	Weixing presents at the DOE Contractors meeting
	Shoshanna Barnett graduates with a BA/MS, heads to UW - Seattle for grad school
	Mayank Puri graduates with a BA/MS, starts working at QD Vision
April 2008	Dan wins Schiff Fellowship
	Chris and Oleg present at the ACS meeting in New Orleans
March 2008	Baofei Pan joins the group
	We welcome new assistant professors Christine Thomas and Isaac Krauss!
	Yanjun passes the qualifying exam
November 2007	The new “base-free” glovebox arrives (courtesy of partial DOE support)
	Weixing passes the qualifying exam
October 2007	Nagaraj joins the group
September 2007	Sylvain leaves the group and departs for Paris
August 2007	Anthony Fernandez returns to Merrimack but will continue collaborating
	Alyson Christopher graduates with an MS and starts at Cabot Corp.
	Emily Pelton returns to Gustavus
	Eight posters and four talks at the Boston ACS meeting!
July 2007	Oleg presents at the Organometallic Gordo
	Claudia presents at the Gordo Organometallic Graduate Seminar
June 2007	Emily Pelton joins the group for the summer as an REU student
	Mayank Puri returns to the group after a year abroad in England
	Dan Graham joins the group
May 2007	Oleg presents at the Canadian Chemistry Conference in Winnipeg
	Laura Gerber graduates with a BA/MS, will head to Berkeley after Fulbright in Norway
	Deborha travels to Cardiff for her Ph.D. defense
	Mason departs for California for a position with Heraeus
April 2007	Lauren Gregor returns to the group for a brief research spell
	Oleg is named Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
March 2007	Anthony Fernandez presents at the Chicago ACS meeting
	Laura Gerber wins a Fulbright Fellowship
February 2007	Deborha Bacciu joins the group
January 2007	Chris Douvris joins the group
December 2006	Wei Weng defends, leaves for a postdoc with Prof. Jordan at U Chicago
	Weixing Gu joins the group
November 2006	Two new gloveboxes and a solvent purification system are installed
October 2006	Oleg is promoted to associate professor with tenure
	Yanjun Zhu joins the group
	Laura and Sylvain present posters at BRIC-11 in UMass – Dartmouth
	Mason Haneline joins the group
September 2006	Shoshanna Barnett joins the group
	Guolin Xu departs for a position with IM&T Research, Inc.
	Shannon returns to “the Dodge”
	Jessica, Laura, and Oleg present at the San Francisco ACS meeting
August 2006	Mayank Puri departs for a year abroad at University College London
	Jessica DeMott leaves the group to start her PhD studies at Stanford
	Lei Fan graduates with a PhD, leaves for a postdoc at U Alberta with Prof. Fenniri
	Guolin Xu joins the group
July 2006	Alyson Christopher joins the group
	Wei Weng accepts a postdoc position with Prof. Jordan at U Chicago
	Sylvain Gatard presents at the ICOMC in Zaragoza, Spain
	Sylvain and Oleg present at the Organometallic Gordon Conference
June 2006	Shannon Finnell joins the group as an REU participant for 3 months
	Anthony Fernandez joins the group on sabbatical from Merrimack
	Oleg speaks at the NSF Workshop on Inorganic Chemistry
May 2006	Oleg speaks at the Department of Energy Contractors Meeting
	Mayank Puri joins the group
	Sophia White graduates with an MS degree, starts job at Lexington High
	Lauren Gregor graduates with a BS degree, leaves for student teaching
	Jessica DeMott graduates with a BS degree, stays on for the summer
March 2006	Laura Gerber wins several awards for the summer of 2006, chooses REU
	Jessica, Lauren, Claudia, Wei, Sylvain, and Oleg present at the Atlanta ACS meeting