Congrats to members of the Engle lab past and present for the discovery and development of air-stable Ni(0) complexes for organic synthesis, which was acknowledged with the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Challenge Award in the academic calendar, as announced this week! Members of the Engle lab past and present, as well as collaborators from Bristol Myers Squibb and UCSD will travel to Washington, DC, next week to receive the award.

For a link to the announcement from ACS GCI, see: https://www.acs.org/green-chemistry-sustainability/funding-and-recognition/gcca/2025-awards.html

For a highlight from Scripps Research, see: https://magazine.scripps.edu/awards-and-honors/2025/online-exclusive/dean-and-professor-keary-m-engle-receives-2025-green-chemistry-challenge-award/

We are pleased to welcome Weijie Zhang, a senior undergraduate from Nankai University, who will spend 6 months at Scripps Research during this senior year. As an undergraduate research at NKU, Weijie has already accrued extensive experience in asymmetric catalysis with Profs. Lijun Xiao and Qilin Zhou, and will now bring these skills to a project centered on ligand design for palladium catalysis together with Shenghua. Looking forward to working with you this year, Weijie!

We are excited to welcome first-year graduate student Jaehan Bae to the Engle lab. Jaehan joins that PhD program at Scripps from Chung-Ang University, where we was a member of Prof. Eun Jin Cho’s research laboratory focusing on nickel and photoredox catalysis. We are excited to see what cool new projects Jaehan will pursue in graduate school!

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of our annual Organometallics Bootcamp begins next week. The short course is targeted to senior undergraduates and incoming graduate students, and we also welcome participation from chemists in industry, high school students, or anyone looking to grow their knowledge of organometallic chemistry. The course is highly flexible and accomodates in-person or virtual participation, synchronously or asynchronously.

Click the link here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCCYK6HqOKLONaOyzYVJ7vX6s78egzFLMCa-U1qwxQ_S7Gaw/viewform?usp=header