December 12, 2019: The group welcomes graduate student Edward Zhang.
November 1, 2019: The group welcomes postdoctoral fellow Anqi Zhang.
July 1, 2019: The group welcomes visiting student, YuChun Cai from USTC (China), who will be working in the lab over the summer.
May 13, 2019: Congratulations to Dr. Rungmai Limvorapitux for a successful Thesis Defense!
November 8, 2018: The group welcomes graduate student Tori Seto.
November 1, 2018: The group welcomes postdoctoral fellow Gao-Fong Chang.
September 1, 2018: The group welcomes Research Assistant Huilin Qing, who will be working in the lab over the summer.
May 24, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Cornelius Audu for a successful Thesis Defense!
February 19, 2018: Two Northwestern-affiliated companies named Mobile World Scholars. One of the companies, ORA Sound, is a startup that works with advanced nanomaterials to create previously unattainable levels of sound quality and speaker efficiency. It was recognized for bringing graphene to the audio industry. GrapheneQ™, ORA Sound’s proprietary material and also the name of their first consumer headphone product, was developed in the engineering lab of McGill University professor Thomas Szkopek. Northwestern chemistry professor SonBinh Nguyen, who is a member of ORA Sound’s technical advisory board, developed a manufacturing process for GrapheneQ™ that is scalable to an industrial setting.
October 27, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Lily Mao for a successful Thesis Defense.
September 28, 2017: Congratulations to Mandy Liu for being selected as an Oliver Marcy Scholar for 2017-18. This award is given to three Weinberg students who complete their junior year with the best record in experimental, observational or mathematical sciences. It was established in 1913 to honor Oliver Marcy, professor of natural science from 1862 to 1899, and acting president of Northwestern University from 1876 to 1881 and again in 1890. Students named as Oliver Marcy Scholars will each receive a $400 award.
June 8, 2017: Today’s the 2017 Marple-Schweitzer Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony! Congratulations to Mengtan “Mandy” Liu for winning the following awards:
- ACS Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Award (Top in 300-level physical chemistry courses in the Department of Chemistry here at NU)
- Lewis Sarrett Scholarship (one of the two best rising seniors in the Department of Chemistry at NU)
- R.K. Summerbell Memorial Scholarship (one of the two best rising seniors in the Department of Chemistry, NU)
Congratulations to Jessica Beard for winning the Department of Chemistry Scholar Award. This is a cash prize awarded to graduating chemistry majors students who have demonstrated both outstanding academic performance and outstanding performance in a research laboratory!
August 10, 2017: The group welcomes graduate student Furui “Fred” Zhang.
August 1, 2017: The group welcomes postdoctoral fellow Yonghwi Kim.
June 7, 2017: Congratulations to Rungmai Limvorapitux, who won the Kokes Award for travel to NAM25 (North American Catalysis Society Meeting), where she is to present a poster entitled “P-W-BRM-3: Developing a UiO-66 Catalyst for Tandem Reaction of H2O2 Generation and Selective Alkene Oxidation” on Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
February, 2017: The group welcomes postdoctoral fellow Youlong Zhu.
June 26, 2016: The group welcomes Undergraduate Research Assistants Jun-Er Zhang and Tianyu Zhou, who will be working in the lab over the summer.
June 16, 2016: Nguyen group alumni (Ryan Thaner) came back for the PhD hooding ceremony.
May 17, 2016: The group welcomes Undergraduate Research Assistant Peter Niesman, who will be working in the lab over the summer.
May 9, 2016: Congratulations to Rungmai Limvorapitux for passing her Qualifying Examination.
October 21, 2015: Congratulations to Matthew Du for receiving the prestigious Fletcher URG Prize, an award for the most outstanding summer URG projects!
September 1, 2015: The group welcomes undergraduate Mengtan(Mandy) Liu! She will be working with Cornelius.
July 1, 2015: The group welcomes postdoctoral fellow Matthew McConnell.
June 18, 2015: Two Nguyen group alums came back for the PhD hooding ceremony. From left to right: Dr. Giang Nguyen, STN, and Dr. Zhi An.
February 12, 2015: Congratulations to Resham for winning the 2014-2015 Student Award for Diversity. Resham will be presented with this award during The Graduate School’s Third Annual Awards & Recognition Dinner, taking place on Tuesday, March 3rd at 5:30pm.
November 5, 2014: Congratulations to Lily for winning the 2014 Midwest SCC Graduate Student Scholarship.
November 2014: The group welcomes Rungmai Limvorapitux!
October 13, 2014: The Department of Chemistry Reunion was held October 10-12, 2014 in the Technological Institute (Tech) in Evanston. We’d like to thank everyone from the group (both past and present) who were able to attend. Photos can be found here.
October 10, 2014: Congratulations to Jean for receiving an academic-year grant from NU’s University Research Grant Committee for her honors thesis project.
September 2014: Congratulations to Kevin for receiving an Undergraduate Research Assistantship from NU’s University Research Grant Committee for his research project.
June 23, 2014: The group welcomes summer student Mathew Du, who will be working with Sherzod Madrahimov under a prestigious WCAS summer research grant. This is Mathew’s second summer with our group.
May 21, 2014: Congratuations to Cornelius Audu for passing his Qualifying Examination.
May 6, 2014: Congratulations to Lily Mao for passing her Qualifying Examination.
May 1, 2014: Congratulations to Dr. Zhi An for a successful Thesis Defense.
March 14, 2014: The group welcomes undergraduate student, Nevena Burza, who will be working with Resham Banga under a prestigious WCAS summer research grant.
March 14, 2014: The group welcomes undergraduate student, Jean (Chih-Yi) Chang, who will be working with Giang Nguyen under a Summer URG.
March 14, 2014: The group welcomes undergraduate student, Kevin Zhao, who will be working with Sergio Garibay under a Summer URG.
February 2014: The group welcomes Zachary Meinhart!
August 16, 2013: Congratulations to Ryan, Ye-Seong, and Mitch for having their POP work featured in the August 5th issue of C&EN. See here.
July 1, 2013: Dr. Emily Pentzer, a 2010 NU PhD graduate of the Nguyen group, joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University as an assistant professor in July where she will establish her independent research program in synthetic organic materials.
June 26, 2013: The group welcomes summer students Matthew Du and Dominique Bruncko who will be working with Sherzod Madrahimov. This is Dominique’s second summer with our group.
June 21, 2013: Congratulations to Ye-Seong Kim, who is graduating from NU today with a BA in chemistry.
June 20, 2013: Three Nguyen group alums came back for the PhD hooding ceremony. From left to right: Dr. Ehow Chen (2012 PhD, joint with Geiger), STN, Dr. S. Archana Krovi (2013 PhD), and Dr. Prativa Pandey (2013 PhD).
June 19, 2013: Congratulations to Zhi for his recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials. (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300653)
June 18, 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Totten for a successful Thesis Defense.
June 17, 2013: The group welcomes summer student Meimei Li, who will be working with Bong Jin Hong under a prestigious NSEC REU summer fellowship.
June 12, 2013: Congratuations to Ryan Thaner for passing his Qualifying Examination.
May 29, 2013: Congratulations to Resham Banga for passing his Qualifying Examination.
May 20, 2013: Congratulations to Zhi and Giang for being selected to participate in Kellogg’s Management for Scientists and Engineers Program for summer 2013.
May 1, 2013: Congratulations to Dr. Prativa Pandey for a successful Thesis Defense.
April 23, 2013: Congrats to Sourangsu and Zhi for their recent publication inACS Nano. (DOI: 10.1021/nn400346r)
April 15, 2013: Congrats to Ryan Totten and Mitch for their recent publication in ACS Catalysis. (DOI: 10.1021/cs4001738)
April 14, 2013: Congrats to Zhi for his recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials. (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201370075)
April 1, 2013: Congratulations to Cornelius Audu and Ryan Thaner who have been awarded NSF Fellowships.
March 19, 2013: Congrats to Resham and Anthony for their recent publication in Chemical Science. (DOI: 10.1039/C3SC50423A)
March 5, 2013: Congratulations to Zhi An for a successful Research Proposal (RP) defense.
February 28, 2013: Congrats to Sergio and Mitch for their recent publication inCrystEngComm. (DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26595H)
February 25, 2013: Congrats to Mitch for his recent publication in Chemical Science. (DOI: 10.1039/C3SC22268C)
February 14, 2013: Congratulations to Prof. Julianne Gibbs-Davis and her husband Prof. John Davis, both at the University of Alberta, for their double2013 Sloan Fellowships. Juli, a Nguyen group alum, received her PhD degree from NU in 2005. John was a grad student at NU in the Physics department with Prof. William Halperin.
February 12, 2013: Congrats to Mitch for his recent publication in Chemical Communications. (DOI: 10.1039/C3CC40475G)
November 12, 2012: S. Archana’s work with PNPs was published in Journal of Materials Chemistry. (DOI: 10.1039/C2JM35420A)
November 2012: The group welcomes Lily and Cornelius!
October 17, 2012: Congrats to Bill Hong who received the Best Poster Award for a postdoc at CMIDD’s Seventeenth Annual Drug Discovery Symposium.
September 10, 2012: Ebo’s work with MOFs was recently published in J.A.C.S. (DOI: 10.1021/ja3055639)
August 23, 2012: Congrats to Anthony who was appointed to the Molecular Biophysics Training Program of Northwestern University.
June 11, 2012: Ebo’s work with MOFs was recently published in J.A.C.S. (DOI: 10.1021/ja302623w)
June 1, 2012: First year graduate student Ryan Thaner, was awarded the Allen S. Hussey award for excellence in teaching a 200-level course.
May 23, 2012: The group congratulates Byungman (BK) for successfully defending his thesis and earning his Ph.D.
May 18, 2012: The group congratulates Prativa for a successful Research Proposal.
May 5, 2012: The group congratulates Giang for a successful Qualifying Exam.
May 1, 2012: Group trip to Mt. Everest for a farewell-to-David lunch.
April 25, 2012: Congrats to Ebo for his recent publication in J.A.C.S. (DOI: 10.1021/ja300322a)
April 10, 2012: Congrats to Mitch and Giang for their recent publication in CrystEngComm. (DOI: 10.1039/C2CE06666A)
April 10, 2012: We applaud Giang in receiving an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Student Fellowship.
April 4, 2012: Congrats to Zhi, Owen, and Bill who have had a manuscript recently accepted into the journal Small. (DOI: 10.1002/smll.201101131)
March 21, 2012: Congrats to Ryan Totten, for passing his research proposal.
March 20, 2012: Congrats to Ebo for his recent publication in Crystal Growth & Design. (DOI: 10.1021/cg201520z)