RECENT NEWS
October 2019
⌬ George Thodos Teaching Award for being an exceptional TA for CHEM ENG 212. Congrats Josh!
September 2019
⌬ Mihir and Charmaine publish in ACS Catalysis. Congrats you two!
⌬ ⌬ Chao, Scott and Alex G. publish in Applied Catalysis B. Great work everyone!
June 2019
⌬ Louisa, Sol, Christian, Charmaine, Emily, Andrew R., Mihir, and Andrew W. present at NAM 26. Great work everyone!
Mihir receives the leadership fellowship from the Northwestern Center for Leadership!
May 2019
⌬ Dr. Gosavi successfully defends her thesis. Many congratulations!
Kenton is now a PhD candidate. Great work Kenton!
April 2019
⌬ Kenton receives the 'Best Poster' award at the Catalysis Club of Chicago 2019 symposium. Congrats Kenton!
March 2019
⌬ Sol is now Dr. Ahn! Enjoy the post-doc in Prof. Iglesia's lab in UC Berkeley and the sunny weather!
Andrew R. publishes in ACS Catalysis. Great job!
Abha publishes in Nano Research. Fantastic work Abha!
February 2019
⌬ Andrew R. publishes in J. Comput. Chem. Congrats!
January 2019
⌬ The Notestein research group successfully survives -50F windchills during Polar Vortex 2019!
December 2018
⌬ Mihir passes his thesis proposal!
⌬ Qining and Brianna join the group. Welcome you two!
November 2018
⌬ Journal of Chemical Health and Safety!
⌬ Many congratulations to Louisa for passing her Ph.D. defense.
Emily, Charmaine and Andrew R. are Ph.D. candidates. Congrats all!
October 2018
⌬ Mihir and Justin publish in ACS Catalysis. Many ACSCats for the group!
September 2018
⌬ Scott, Andrew and Justin publish in ACS Catalysis.
August 2018
⌬ Louisa, Scott and Justin publish in JOC. You all are on a roll!
Scott, Louisa and Justin publish in ACS Catalysis!
Lauren, Emily, Abha and Justin publish a paper in JOC!
Eric graduates to begin graduate school at UC Berkeley. Yay!
July 2018
⌬ Alex leaves to begin a post-doc at the University of Minnesota.
Chao joins ExxonMobil Shanghai!
June 2018
⌬ Sol, Scott and Justin publish in JACS!
Andrew and Justin publish in JPC C. That was fast Andrew!
May 2018
⌬ Donald E. Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching for TA-ing an upper division course in Chemistry. Congrats Christian!
April 2018
⌬ SusChemEng. Congrats you two!
March 2018
⌬ Louisa, Justin et al publish in Applied Surface Science
February 2018
⌬ Nick, Justin et al publish in ACS Catalysis
January 2018
⌬ Chao, Justin et al publish in ChemSusChem
December 2017
⌬ Andrew, Josh and Kenton join the group. Welcome!
October 2017
⌬ Alex and Louisa deliver research talks at the 2017 AIChE annual meeting.
⌬ Eric presents a poster at the 2017 AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition.
⌬ Scott is runner-up for the 2017 Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award
⌬ Sol, Justin et al publish a paper in Catalysis Science & Technology
August 2017
⌬ Rachel leaves for a job at BASF
July 2017
⌬ Abha delivers a research talk at CSHEMA 2017
⌬ Bo, Scott, Rachel, Sol, Alex, Lauren and Justin Present at the 2017 North American Catalysis Society Meeting
⌬Lauren leaves for a job at Dow
⌬Bo leaves for a job at Micron Semiconductors
⌬ Scott wins the Best Poster award at the 2017 Catalysis Club of Chicago Symposium
⌬ Lauren, Rachel and Justin publish a paper in ACS Sustainable Chem. & Eng
March 2017
⌬ Nick leaves the group for a Post-Doc at NREL Colorado.
December 2016
⌬ Christian, Emily, Charmaine and Mihir join the group. Welcome!
October 2016
⌬ Sol, Nick, Justin, et al. publish a paper in Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats on your first paper Sol!
September 2016
⌬ Nick wins the 2016 Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award for being the "most outstanding" graduate researcher in the department. Congrats!
August 2016
⌬ Scott presents a poster at the 252nd ACS meeting in Philadelphia.
July 2016
⌬ Nick and Justin et al. publish a paper in Catalysis Science & Technology. ⌬ Nick, Scott, and Justin et al. publish a paper in ACS Catalysis. ⌬ Scott and Justin publish a paper in Journal of Catalysis with Schax and Limberg at Humboldt Unviversity in Berlin. ⌬ Alex, Bo, Scott, and Justin publish a paper in ACS Catalysis. ⌬ Chieh-Chao leaves for a job at DuPont Taiwan.
June 2016
⌬ Alex Grant wins the ISEN Cluster Fellowship. Congrats!
⌬ Nick wins the Northwestern Terminal Year Fellowship. Congrats!
May 2016
⌬ Mark, Justin, and Tobin Marks publish a paper in the New Journal of Chemistry.
April 2016
⌬ Sara and Justin et al. publish a paper Applied Catalysis A: General. ⌬ NRG research and collaboration with the Solar Fuels Institute profiled by ISEN for April newsletter! ⌬ Abha attends Safety by Design 2016.
March 2016
⌬ Nick wins the W. L. Gore Research Fellowship Grand Prize. Congrats!
⌬ Chieh-Chao, Sara, and Justin et al. publish a paper in the Journal of Catalysis. ⌬ Mark, Justin, and Tobin Marks publish a paper in ACS Catalysis. ⌬ Todd, Bo, Sara, Chieh-Chaoh, and Justin et al. publish a paper in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. ⌬ Alex Ardagh, Abha, Nick, Bo, Lauren, and Justin give talks at the 251st ACS meeting in San Diego.
January 2016
⌬ Sara and Todd finish their PhDs. Congratulations!
⌬ Christian Contreras, Patricia and Justin publish a paper in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. ⌬ Louisa, David, and Justin et al. publish a paper in Catalysis Today. ⌬ Todd leaves for a Post-Doc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
⌬ Sara leaves for a job at ExxonMobil.
⌬ Alex Grant joins the group.
December 2015
⌬ Patricia, Christian Contreras, Nick, and Justin et al. publish a paper in Applied Catalysis A: General.
August 2015
⌬ Sara gives a talk at the 250th ACS meeting in Boston.
July 2015
⌬ Nick and Justin et al. publish a paper in ACS Catalysis.
March 2015
⌬ Rachel, Sara, Justin, Nick, and Todd give talks at the 249th ACS meeting in Denver.
⌬ Sara, Sunyoung, Justin, and Dow partners publish a paper in the Journal of Catalysis.
January 2015
⌬ Dario, Justin, and Toyota partners publish a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. December 2014
⌬ Dario, Todd, Justin, and Toyota partners publish a paper in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
October 2014
⌬ Chieh-Chao and Justin et al. publish a paper in Journal of Catalysis.
⌬ Todd and Justin et al. publish a paper in ChemCatChem.
September 2014
⌬ Boone and Mark leave for post-docs at Minnesota.
⌬ David and Sherzod join group as post-docs.
⌬ Mark and Justin et al. publish a paper in Catalysis Letters.
⌬ Chieh-Chao, Justin, and Dow partners publish a paper in the Journal of Catalysis. ⌬ Nick gives a talk about catalysis at Northwestern's Seven Minutes of Science! Check out the video here!
August 2014
⌬ Lauren heads off to Berlin as a visiting researcher at Humboldt University with Christian Limberg!
May 2014
⌬ Sara wins a best poster prize at the Catalysis Club of Chicago Spring Symposium. Congrats!
January 2014
⌬ Alex, Scott, and Louisa join the group.
December 2013
⌬ Boone and Justin publish a paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
September 2013
⌬ Todd, Kim, and Justin publish a paper in Journal of Catalysis.
June 2013
⌬ Pria and Dario graduate to become Justin's first PhDs. Congratulations!
⌬ Pria leaves for a position at BP.
⌬ Dario leaves for a post-doc with Aditya Bhan at Minnesota.
January 2013
⌬ Rachel, Lauren, and Nick join the group.
November 2012
⌬ Nature Chemistry article is picked up in C&EN and the McCormick Magazine.
⌬ Undergraduate lab member Nico Grosso awarded 1st place in the Energy, Petroleum and Fuels III undergraduate poster session at the AIChE 2012 National Meeting.
October 2012
⌬ PhD student Andy Korinda heads off to Hemlock Semiconductor.
⌬ Pria and Boone receive conference travel awards from the Catalysis Division and the Separations Division of AIChE, respectively.
September 2012
⌬ Christian Canlas and Justin publish an article in Nature Chem.
⌬ Dario and Justin publish a paper in Journal of Catalysis.
⌬ Christian Contreras receives the G. Thodos Teaching Assistant Award.
June 2012
⌬ Sunyoung, Patricia, and Chieh-Chao join the group.
⌬ Sara receives the Carl Storm Fellowship to attend the Catalysis Gordon Research Conference.
May 2012
⌬ Dario receives a DOW Travel Fellowship from NACS to attend the 15th ICC in Munich.
January 2012
⌬ Sara and Christian Contreras join the group.
2011
October 2011
⌬ The Notestein group kicks off two projects with the Dow University Funding Initiative.
⌬ Nick and Justin publish articles in JACS and ACS Catalysis.
⌬ Dario receives a travel award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AIChE.
September 2011
⌬ Pria and Justin publish an article in ChemSusChem.
August 2011
⌬ Boone and Justin publish an article in Langmuir.