My Portfolio

2026

• Phosphine unexpectedly mimics metals in a photocatalytic reaction C&EN

• Can recycled lab gloves capture carbon dioxide? C&EN

• Aluminum learns to ride a redox cycle C&EN

• Benzene at 200: From oil by-product to aromatic icon C&EN

• Chemists create mosaic of AI synthesis knowledge C&EN

• Engineered enzyme makes amides from aldehydes C&EN

• 2 unusual alkenes stretch the limits of molecular geometry C&EN

• This rearrangement remodels epoxides C&EN

• Scratch-and-sniff stamps and lickable parcels C&EN

• Stone Age humans hunted with poisoned arrows C&EN

• Enzymes offer easy access to diazo compounds C&EN

 

2025

• This molecule conducts charge like a liquid, even when it’s a solid C&EN

• Wild milk rivals human milk in sugar complexity C&EN

• Molecules of the year 2025 C&EN

• How chemistry can save sounds of the past C&EN

• Let there be light-activated arynes C&EN

• Nitroamines power a less explosive Sandmeyer reaction alternative C&EN

• Editorial: Trust in science means trusting the process (even when that’s hard) C&EN

• Atom swap unlocks a world of 4-membered rings C&EN

• These shape-shifting rings create customizable cores C&EN

• Last-minute changes for NSF graduate fellowships spark chaos C&EN

• Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation C&EN

• This chemist aims to change the game for species conservation C&EN

• The EU banned a common nail polish ingredient. But don’t panic C&EN

• Double-charge-transfer molecule may help improve solar fuels C&EN

• Structures of 13 drug candidates unveiled at DC meeting C&EN

• Controversial 'arsenic life’ paper retracted from 'Science' C&EN

• Modular reaction can build hundreds of unnatural amino acids C&EN

• The first all-carbon ring that’s stable at room temperature C&EN

• Alchemy goes for the gold C&EN

• Watch a new self-driving molecular machine in action C&EN

• NSF names 504 new graduate research fellows C&EN

• Atom-swapped morphine may help create safer painkillers C&EN

• The time I ate breakfast with a Nobel laureate C&EN

• Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry? C&EN

• Editorial: ‘No excuses’ for the future of green chemistry C&EN

• Researchers use electrochemistry to read data stored in molecules C&EN

• 2025 Talented 12: Kat Knauer C&EN

• A new way to recycle waste silicones C&EN

• NSF halves graduate fellowship awards C&EN (co-reported with Leigh Krietsch Boerner)

• More cross-coupling with less metal C&EN

• Chemists create matchmaking app for biocatalysis C&EN

• Green glues: Will they stick? C&EN (co-reported with Prachi Patel)

• 2 ways to stick nitrogen into alkenes C&EN

• Imagine the pasta-bilities C&EN

• Breaking down Plexiglas with light C&EN

• A new path to elusive fluorinated oxetanes C&EN

• Mattress recycling wakes up C&EN

• Strategic disorder gives greener glue C&EN

• Electrosynthesis goes wireless C&EN

• Skeletal editing strategy makes room for more nitrogen C&EN

• A simple solution to a chlorination challenge C&EN

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2024

• Molecules of the year 2024 C&EN

• Enzyme and photocatalyst juggle 3-component reaction C&EN

• Can biodegradable polymers make microplastics? C&EN

• An AI-powered lab partner C&EN

• PhaBuilder brews better bioplastics with extremophile bacteria C&EN

• Bending the rules for twisted double bonds C&EN

• Stonehenge secrets and paper cut physics C&EN

• Light-activated atom swapping C&EN

• Radical reactions for reversible click chemistry C&EN

• Engineered enzymes help remix natural products C&EN

• Trifluoromethylated heteroatoms go with the flow C&EN

• A sustainable superglue for surgeries C&EN

• Are fluorinated drugs PFAS? C&EN

• Engineered enzyme flirts with fluoroalkylation C&EN

• Escape room outreach and playing the publication game C&EN

• Chemists smash period stigma with a podcast C&EN

• A multitalented atom-transfer reagent C&EN

• Alchivemycin A synthesized with help from enzymes C&EN

• The rules for assembling azetidines C&EN

• Radical reaction enables protecting group-free sugar chemistry C&EN

• Antimalarial drugs could also treat polycystic ovary syndrome C&EN

• The future of click chemistry C&EN

• Slow and steady action makes brain cancer drug candidate more selective C&EN

• Boldly going where no C–H activation has gone before C&EN

• C&EN’s 2024 Talented 12: Sarah Lovelock C&EN

• Superstar science: Custom guitars for Nobel laureates and Swifties’ seismic signals C&EN

• Nitrate reduction route makes aryldiazonium chemistry safer C&EN

• Five-membered aryne thought to be impossible synthesized in nickel complex C&EN

• Early western European coins’ Byzantine origins C&EN

• Thermoset plastic made from wood waste catalyzes its own degradation C&EN

• Structures of new cancer drug candidates revealed C&EN

• Newscripts at the Oscars: Barbenheimer double feature C&EN

• 3-component Suzuki reaction makes amines C&EN

• Printable polymer with tunable structural color C&EN

• The elements of a green catalyst C&EN

• Plutonium joins the carbene club C&EN

• Skeletal-editing reaction turns pyridines into substituted benzenes C&EN

• Phosphines that act like metal catalysts C&EN

 

2023

• A new catalyst for breaking down nylon 6 C&EN

• Hook-and-slide strategy extends amides C&EN

• Tracking polymerization with laser focus C&EN

• A cheap, flexible fluoroalkylation C&EN

• Reanimated spider bots and garden mysteries C&EN

• Stereoenrichment with a single catalyst C&EN

• The chemistry behind Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings C&EN

• Degradable electronic medical devices power up C&EN

• Molecule packs dual punch for cancer immunotherapy C&EN

• Charging up hydrogen as a greener reductant C&EN

• Game night: Tabletop scicomm and Dorito dupes C&EN

• Biodegradable phosphoester polymers for greener MRI color C&EN

• Photocatalytic reaction creates cyclopropanes from unactivated alkenes C&EN

• Enzyme and photocatalyst team up to make nonnatural amino acids C&EN

• Fluorine chemistry, hold the HF C&EN

• Frustrated radical pairs facilitate C–H activation C&EN

• Cyanotriazoles show antiparasitic promise C&EN

• When molecules just need a push in the right direction C&EN

• What is gel nail polish, and how does it create durable manicures? C&EN

• Stradivari meets science C&EN

• Tautomerization ensures quality clicks C&EN

• Oil is more likely to stick around in a cold, sunny ocean C&EN

• Corteva, Bunge, and Chevron announce canola collaboration C&EN

• Fun with parafilm C&EN

• Career Ladder: Candice Z. Ulmer Holland C&EN

 

2022

• Biologist Offers Insight on the Human Foot Discover Magazine

• Science communication that breaks the mold C&EN

• Career Ladder: Miranda Paley C&EN

• Modeling malnutrition with microfluidics C&EN 

• Colorful solar cells made easy C&EN

• Recycled beer and ancient wine C&EN

• What is health-monitoring cat litter, and how does it help detect when your cat is sick? C&EN

• Comic-book science and science comic books C&EN

• Career Ladder: Kat Day C&EN

• Interfering grapefruit and low-stress tomatoes C&EN

 

2021

• Is It Time to Rethink Food Coloring? Discover Magazine

• The Brain Science Behind the 'Twisties' Discover Magazine

• The Secret to Brilliant Auroras? ‘Surfing’ Electrons Discover Magazine

• We Still Don’t Know What’s Killing the Birds Discover Magazine

• The Secret Cleaning Power of Bacteria Discover Magazine

• Turns Out, Venus (Almost) Has Tectonic Plates Discover Magazine

• Are Cooking Fumes Bad for Your Health? Discover Magazine

• DUNE prototype detector ArgonCube crosses the globe Fermilab News

• Can Solar Farms Help Save Bees? Discover Magazine

• 7 New Animals Discovered in 2021 So Far Discover Magazine

• A strong force for inclusion Symmetry Magazine

• FAPA gains new leadership, new momentum Fermilab News

• Construction crews start lowering equipment a mile underground for excavation for DUNE Fermilab News

• ICARUS gets ready to fly Fermilab News

• Argonaut project launches design effort for super-cold robotics Fermilab News

• Rock transportation system is ready for excavation of DUNE caverns Fermilab News

• On the marvels of physics Symmetry Magazine

• The beginner's guide to a career in science writing Cell Mentor (co-written with Brittany Trang)

• Where science meets the sacred Symmetry Magazine

• The mystery of the muon’s magnetism Symmetry Magazine

• A Fermilab family legacy Symmetry Magazine

• Testing wraps up for first Fermilab-designed cryomodule for PIP-II accelerator Fermilab News

• One minute with Arden Warner, accelerator physicist Fermilab News

• The critical role of chemistry in D&D poisons Chemistry World

• New metamaterials for studying the oldest light in the universe Fermilab News

• One minute with Maxine Hronek, DUNE collaboration coordinator Fermilab News

 

2020

• Meet Four Ph.D. Students Who Passed Their Candidacy Exams in Quarantine ACS Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist Magazine 

• Funding for all: The inside scoop on grants and fellowships NASW news

• Questing for Cures from a Boiling River NASW Student Newsroom

• Grad Students Weigh In on Returning to Lab After Quarantine ACS Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist Magazine

• To Stop Coronavirus’ Spread, We’ll Need New Testing Technology Discover Magazine

• We Need to Talk About Plastic Lab Waste Bioeconomy.XYZ

• Why Aren't Academic Sustainable Lab Programs Gaining More Traction? labmanager.com

• Mental Health, Well-Being, and Research UM Chemistry news (Co-written with Taylor Soucy)

• Covalent organic framework captures carbon from air C&EN