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Recent News
Our Bid to be Organic Chemists
It’s a great honor to be featured in a highlight column of organic-chemistry.org! Maia’s electrocatalytic semihydrogenation of alkynes has been featured in a highlight column toward the total synthesis of Icumazole A. Congrats Maia, keep up the good work!
https://www.organic-chemistry.org/Highlights/2025/24March.shtm
Bittersweet Goodbyes and Enthusiastic Welcomes
The Anderson lab congratulates and bids farewell to graduate student Dr. Sophie Anferov and postdocs Dr. Ningxin Jiang and Dr. Pat Crossland. They will be missed, but we look forward to seeing their success in the future! We extend a warm welcome to incoming graduate students Abha Dabak-Wakankar, Ya Su, and Claire Benedict, as well as postdocs Dooyoung Kim, Linh Le, Yujeong Lee, and Lac Ha Nguyen. We look forward to working with you and reading your great science!
Prizes for the Prized
Congratulations to Lauren McNamara for being awarded the WCC/Merck Research Award 2024 and to Maia Czaikowski for winning the Amgen Women in Chemistry Graduate Student Award! We’re lucky to have such brilliant students in the lab, and we’re delighted to see their hard work rewarded.
Parties, Partings and New Partners
Congratulations to Joe Scott for passing his candidacy exam!
We also have bid a fond farewell to Jorge and Andrew, our beloved post-docs, and we wish them both happy reactions at PNNL!
Lastly, a warm welcome to our new graduate student group members! We’re excited to make some molecules with you.
Congratulations, Aloha, and Aloha
Congratulations to Norman on successfully defending his thesis and on his ascension to a position as an R&D Process Chemist at Air Liquide! Also welcome to our new graduate student Joseph Scott– we’re excited to make some bonds together (multiple bonds).
Congratulations to Dr. Margaret Kelty and Dr. Jiaze Xie!
Congrats to our two newest PhDs! We will miss you both, but we look forward to seeing the great science you do in your independent careers! Also, we are happy to welcome Dr. Ningxin Jiang to the group. We are thrilled to have you as part of the team!
New Year, New Title
Congratulations to John on his promotion to Associate Professor! We are also happy to welcome a new postdoc, Pat, and two new graduate students, Chen-Yu and Alex, to the group. We look forward to doing some cool science together!