January 2024:
- Our synthetic wizard Ethan is now officially Dr. Miller after succesfully defending his dissertation. Many congratulations Ethan!
November 2023:
- Nick has succesfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Pompetti!! He will soon start his new position at NREL as a research associate. Best of luck Dr. Nick!
April 2023:
- Many congratulations to Jenny Lin for defending her dissertation succesfully. Dr. Lin will now be at NIST, Boulder working as a research associate. Good luck Jenny!
December 2022:
- Congrats to Alex Gilligan for succesfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Gilligan!
May 2022:
- Congrats to Ryan Dill for succesfully defending his dissertation and adding a Dr before his name!
June 2021:
- Congrats to Yisrael Lattke for successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Lattke!!! Through a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Dr. Lattke will be continuing forward as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fort Lewis College. Best of luck, Izzy!
May 2021:
- Congrats to Erica for graduating with a BS in Applied Mathematics, Minor in Chemistry, and certificate in Neuroscience--and earning the Academic Engagement Award from the College of Engineering. Best of luck at MIT Lincoln Labs!
March 2021:
- We would like to welcome Arindam Sau and Raythe Owens to the Damrauer Group!
July 2020:
- We are delighted to announce that Jenny Lin has joined our group. Welcome to the Damrauer group Jenny!
April 2020:
- Congratulations to Steven Sartor for successfully defending his disseration and becoming Dr. Sartor!!!
- Congratulations to Izzy and Steven for the acceptance of the paper Interrogation of O-ATRP Activation Conducted by Singlet and Triplet Excited States of Phenoxazine Photocatalysts in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A!
January 2020:
- Congratulations to Steven for the acceptance of the paper Designing High Triplet Yield Phenothiazine Donor-Acceptor Complexes for Photoredox Catalysis in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A!
- Congratulations to Nick for the acceptance of the paper Lessons from Intramolecular Singlet Fission with Covalently Bound Chromophores in the Journal of Chemical Physics! (Lead author Nadezhda Korovina)
August 2019:
- Congratulations to Sam Shepard for successfully defending his disseration and becoming Dr. Shepard!!!
May 2019:
- Congratulations to Steven and Izzy for the acceptance of the paper The Effects of Naphthyl Connectivity on the Photophysics of Compact Organic Charge-Transfer Photoredox Catalysts in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A!
April 2019:
- Congratulations to Orion Pearce for successfully defending his disseration and becoming Dr. Pearce!!!
March 2019:
- Congratulations to Alex and Ethan on the publication of their paper Using Structurally Well-Defined Norbornyl-Bridged Acene Dimers to Map a Mechanistic Landscape for Correlated Triplet Formation in Singlet Fission in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
August 2018:
- Congratulations to Steven F., Sam, and Niels for being featured in the 2018 JACS Young Investigators Virtual Issue: https://pubs.acs.org/page/jacsat/vi/young-investigator2018.html
July 2018:
- Congratulations to Orion on the publication of the paper Ultrafast Hole Transfer from CdS Quantum Dots to a Water Oxidation Catalyst in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
March 2018:
- Congratulations to Steven Fatur and Thomas Carey for successfully defending their disserations and becoming Dr. Fatur and Dr. Carey!!!
- Congratulations to Steven S. for the acceptance of the paper Structure-Property Relationships for Tailoring Phenoxazines as Reducing Photoredox Catalysts in the Journal of the American Chemical Society! (Lead author Blaine McCarthy, in the Miyake research group at CSU)
- Congratulations to Steven S. for the acceptance of the paper Exploiting Charge Transfer States for Maximizing Intersystem Crossing Yields in Organic Photoredox Catalysts (aka A Tale of Two CTs) in the Journal of the American Chemical Society!
February 2018:
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Congratulations to Steven S. for winning a Short Talk Award for his oral presentation at the Frontiers in Photochemistry Conference in Cancun, Mexico!
January 2018:
- Congratulations to Thomas, Ethan, and Alex for the publication of their paper Modular Synthesis of Rigid Polyacene Dimers for Singlet Fission in Organic Letters!
- Congratulations to Sam for winning the Joseph Addison Sewall Award, covering funding for his research this Spring!