May 2018
⌬ Donald E. Smith Award for Excellence in Teaching for TA-ing an upper division course in Chemistry. Congrats Christian!
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.
September 2017
⌬ 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.