Today we bid farewell to Giada. After a successful summer research stay working on Cu-catalysis with Skyler and Katherine, Giada heads back to Colorado to finish her senior year at Montrose High School. Best of luck and keep in touch!

Keary has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award by the The North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society (NJACS). In Keary’s citation for the Baekeland award, NJACS cited the Engle lab’s specific achievements in the use of transition metal catalysts to advance the field of alkene functionalization. Since the group opened in 2015, methods and catalysts developed in the Engle lab have been adopted by academic and industrial labs across the world, streamlining access to a variety of useful products. Congratulations to Engle lab members past and present on this recognition!

For a link to the write up in the Scripps Research Magazine, see: https://magazine.scripps.edu/awards-and-honors/2023/online-exclusive/keary-engle-awarded-the-2023-njacs-leo-hendrik-baekeland-award/

This week, three new members joined the lab.

Katherine is a new PhD student. She did her undergraduate studies at Berkley with Prof. Sarpong and has been working at Gilead for the last few years.

Wenzhuo is an undergraduate intern visiting from Nankai University and will be exploring nickel catalysis with Nankai alumni, Wenji.

Shijin joins the lab as a visiting undergraduate student from Fudan University and will be working with Shenghua.

Welcome to the Engle Lab!