- December 2024
- Jeremiah joined the lab as a new graduate student. Welcome!
- November 2024
- Jared received the Career Development Grant from Ohio State’s Council of Graduate Students. Congrats! Thank you to OSU CGS for the financial support!
- October 2024
- Jared, Bertha, and Aadarsh’s review was accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Congrats!
- July 2024
- The McGrier lab had our EHS safety inspection and achieved Dean’s List status – no safety issues – for the second year in a row. Much thanks to our safety officer, Bertha, for keeping us safe!
- Fanhao passed his candidacy exam, Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
- June 2024
- Aadarsh passed his first year oral exam, congratulations!
- Jared and Bertha’s paper was accepted for publication in Energy & Fuels! Congrats!
- The McGrier Lab was granted the Green Buckeye Certification for implementing best sustainability practices. McGrierGroup_GreenBuckeyeCertificate
- May 2024
- The McGrier group performed a luminol demonstration for the Breakfast of Science Champions (BoSC) outreach event, teaching local students about the Chemistry of Light. See the photos tab for videos and more pictures!
- Dec 2023
- New graduate students Chenhao and Aadarsh joined the lab. Welcome!
- May 2023
- Congratulations to Fanhao on passing his first year oral exam!
- The McGrier group performed a luminol demonstration for the Breakfast of Science Champions (BoSC) outreach event, teaching local students about the Chemistry of Light. See the photos tab for videos and more pictures!
- April 2023
- Congratulations to Dr. Zweli Hlatshwayo on defending his thesis!
- New graduate student Fanhao joined the lab. Welcome!
- July 2022
- Zweli and Jared’s paper was accepted for publication in ChemCatChem! Congrats!
- July 2022
- Bertha passed her PhD candidacy exam! Well done!
- June 2022
- Congratulations to Zweli on being selected to participate in the Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Symposium hosted by DOW!
- Erica’s paper was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials! Congrats!
- May 2022
- Jared passed his PhD candidacy exam! Congratulations!
- April 2022
- Congratulations to Dr. Erica Moscarello on successfully defending her thesis! She will be joining the faculty at Denison University as a Visiting Assistant Professor next semester. Way to go!
- August 2021
- Eric and Erica’s paper was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, great work!
- June 2021
- Congratulations to Jared and Bertha on passing their first year oral exams! Well done!
- April 2021
- Dr. Karl Haug successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations!
- March 2021
- Congratulations to Dr. Eric Wolfson on successfully defending his thesis! He’ll be moving to Boston soon to start a new job at DuPont as a synthetic chemist!
- February 2021
- Eric, Erica, and Karl’s review was accepted for publication in Organic Materials! Congrats!
- December 2020
- New graduate students Jared and Bertha joined the lab. Welcome!
- June 2020
- Our proposal entitled “EAGER: The Development of Covalent Organic Frameworks as Anode Materials for Potassium-Ion Batteries” has been funded by the NSF! We thank them for their generous financial support.
- June 2020
- Psaras was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Congrats!
- March 2020
- Karl, Eric, and Blake’s paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! Congrats!
- January 2020
- Karl, Erica, and Eric’s review was accepted for publication in Chemical Society Reviews! Congrats!
- December 2019
- Eric and Karl’s paper was accepted for publication in Molecular Systems Design and Engineering! Congrats!
- Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Blake, on being offered an internship with Anheuser-Busch for next semester!
- August 2019
- Erica passed her candidacy exam! Congratulations!
- May 2019
- Grace, Dave, and Eric’s paper was accepted for publication in Chemical Communications! Congrats!
- May 2019
- Our proposal entitled “Earth Abundant Metal-Doped Covalent Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Catalysis” has been funded by the NSF! We thank them for their generous financial support.
- May 2019
- Congratulations to David for graduating with his Ph.D. in chemistry!
- March 2019
- Congratulations to David for defending his thesis! He will be working as a research associate at Covestro.
- July 2018
- Congratulations to Karl and Eric for passing their candidacy exams! Way to go!
- June 2018
- Dave and Grace’s paper was accepted for publication in Chemical Science!
- Congratulations to Grace for successfully defending her thesis! She will be teaching organic chemistry at Macalester College this fall.
- May 2018
- Congratulations to Erica on passing her first year orals! Well done!
- April 2018
- Congratulations to Jinchao on successfully defending her thesis!
- March 2018
- Grace was awarded 1st place at the Ohio State University’s Hayes Graduate Forum for her oral presentation in the Math and Natural Sciences category. Congrats!
- January 2018
- Psaras has been awarded the 2018 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award! Congrats!
- New undergraduate student Emily Goodwin joined the group, welcome!
- New graduate student Erica Moscarello joined the group. Welcome!
- November 2017
- The McGrier group participated in the Breakfast of Science Champions (BoSC) outreach event, teaching local students about the Chemistry of Light!
- June 2017
- Pradeep and Grace’s paper was featured on the cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry C!
- May 2017
- Grace and Ben’s paper was accepted for publication in RSC Advances!
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- Karl, Jinchao, and Eric all passed their first year oral exams! Congrats all!
- April 2017
- Congratulations to Jon on successfully defending his thesis!
- March 2017
- Congratulations to Luke on successfully defending his thesis! He will be joining UES/Air Force Research Labs in May.
- February 2017
- Pradeep and Grace’s paper was accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C!
- January 2017
- New graduate students Eric Wolfson, Karl Haug, and Jinchao Yin joined the group! Welcome!
- The McGrier group has been awarded a Facility Grant from the OSU Institute of Materials Research! We thank them for their generous financial support.
- November 2016
- Pradeep and Toni’s paper was accepted for publication in Chemistry- A European Journal!
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- The McGrier group participated in the Breakfast of Science Champions (BoSC) outreach event, teaching local students about the Chemistry of Light!
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- Luke, Jon, and Dave’s paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
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- September 2016
- Dave, Jon, and Luke’s paper was accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters!
- August 2016
- Dave passed his candidacy exam. Congrats!
- Jon and Luke’s paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
- July 2016
- The McGrier group has been awarded an exploratory materials research grant from the OSU Institute of Materials Research! We thank them for their generous financial support
- June 2016
- Luke was awarded a SciFinder Future Leaders award. Congrats!
- May 2016:
- Post-doc Pezhman Arab joins the group from VCU. Welcome!
- REU student Jeremiah Kinsey joins us for the summer. Welcome!
- April 2016:
- Ben Clark was awarded a URO Summer Research Fellowship. Congrats!
- December 2015:
- Ben Clark was awarded an OSU Undergraduate Research Scholar Award. Congrats!
- November 2015:
- Luke was awarded a GAANN fellowship for 2016. Congratulations!
- October 2015:
- Undergraduate researcher Ben Clark joins the group. Welcome!
- August 2015:
- Undergraduate researcher Ben Walker joins the group. Welcome!
- Luke and Jon’s paper has been accepted for publication in Chemistry of Materials!
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- Grace passed her candidacy exam. Congrats!
- Post-doc Pradeep Jagadesan joins the group from University of Miami (Fl)
- July 2015:
- Toni successfully defended her masters. Congrats!
- June 2015:
- David passed his first year oral exam. Congrats!
- Undergraduate researcher D’Ann Abreu joins the group
- Psaras received an ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator grant!
- January 2015: New student David Pyles joined the group
- October 2014: Grace finished her cumulative exams. Congrats!
- September 2014: Luke passed his candidacy exam. Congrats!
- August 2014: Jon passed his candidacy exam. Congrats!
- May 2014: Toni and Grace pass their first year oral exams. Congrats to you both!
- April 2014: New students Grace and Toni join the group