Congrats to fifth-year graduate student Shenghua Yang, who successfully defended his dissertation today. Shenghua’s Ph.D. research focused on expanding the design and strategic application of bisphosphine ligands in homogeneous cataylsis. In particular, Shenghua’s research culminated in the design of a new family of wide-bite-angle chiral bisphosphines with superb performance in asymmeytic C–C coupling reactions. Later this summer, Shenghua will move north for a postdoc position at the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.