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Brian’s paper, Cultivating Advanced Technical Writing Skills through a Graduate-Level Course on Writing Research Proposals, was recently accepted to the Journal of Chemical Education. This manuscript reports on the technical writing graduate course Brian helped design while at UNC!

Congratulations Brian!

Chris, Dan and Tao’s paper, titled ‘Excited-State Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer: Different Avenues for Promoting Proton/Electron Movement with Solar Photons,’ was accepted to ACS Energy Letters. This review discusses recent developments in excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer!

Congratulations!

Katherine, Noémie and Banu’s paper, titled ‘Applications of electrochemical and spectroscopic methods for evaluating molecular electrocatalysts,’ was accepted to Nature Reviews Chemistry. This review discusses electrochemical and spectroscopic tools for evaluating kinetics and mechanisms for molecular catalysts for electrochemical reactions, and presents case studies for each technique discussed.

Congratulations!

During the last weeks of March, seniors Will Howland, Hannah Starr and Caroline Reilly presented their senior thesis work. All will be graduating with Highest Honors in recognition of their accomplishments here at UNC. The group celebrated everyone’s great work at a recent lunch!

First year graduate student Carolyn Hartley, senior William Howland and alum Daniel Martin have all been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships! In addition, senior Hannah Starr was awarded an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP! Congratulations to Carolyn, Will, Daniel and Hannah!!!!

Congratulations to Katherine Lee, the newest PhD candidate in the Dempsey group! Katherine passed her second year orals exam on March 22!

First year graduate students Emily Anne Sharpe and Michael Mortelliti recently joined the Dempsey group! Emily Anne received her undergraduate degree from University of Mississippi and Michael received his undergraduate degree from University of Massachusetts. Welcome Emily Anne and Michael!

On March 20, Yejee defended her thesis for her M.A. degree! Congratulations Yejee!

On February 28, Eric Rountree successfully defended his thesis. Eric will start a position at Voxel Innovations in Raleigh, NC this summer. Congratulations to Dr. Rountree!

Jillian was recently awarded the J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students in recognition for her instruction of Chemistry 101 over the last three years. She is very grateful for all of her former students who supported her nomination! On Tuesday January 31, she was honored at halftime of the UNC-Pitt Men’s Basketball game with the other teaching award recipients.