After giving a stellar wrap-up talk last week, Yinan Gao finishes his summer internship this week and will now make the long drive back to Minnesota to complete his his senior year at Carleton College. With outstanding mentorship from Shenghua Yang, Yinan made outstanding progress on developing new palladium catalysts for challenging C–C coupling reactions with generous financial support from Carleton’s Eugster Endowed Student Research and Internship Fund. We look forward to following Yinan’s next steps in graduate school and beyond.