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8/15/24

Congratulations to Isabel on her first-author paper in Materials Advances!

8/14/24

Gurkiran and Dr. Jenkins travelled to the University of Norte Dame for an annual collaborative meeting discussing research projects with the Camden group!

7/22/24

Congratulations to Isabel, Kevin, and Vernon for passing their dissertation defenses and graduating! This marks the first time three Jenkins group members have graduated in one semester. All of them did a fantastic job and their contributions to the group over the years are very much appreciated!

6/12/24

Congratulations to Jerred for his first first-author paper!

5/2/24

Congratulations Nathan and Jacob on their MONT morphology paper being published in Inorganic Chemistry!

5/2/24

Jacob just created a wikipedia article on MONTs!

3/17/24
Kevin, Gurkiran, Jacob, Dr. Jenkins and postdoc Tern just presented at the ACS Spring 2024 National Meeting in New Orleans!

3/13/24
Our ACS Applied Materials paper was recently featured in Advances in Engineering!

12/21/23
Congratulations Isabel on another first-author paper! It was featured on the cover of the Dec. 21st issue of Chemical Communications!

11/27/23
Welcome to the new members Lydia and Kyle, joining us as first-year graduate students!

9/26/23
Congratulations to Gurkiran on her first first-author paper!

07/14/23
Congratulations to Isabel on her new joint first-author paper! This marks the 50th paper published by the Jenkins Group!

05/04/23
Congratulations to Gurkiran for being recognized in the department for her outstanding CRP defense!

02/28/23
Congratulations to the SERS team on another joint publication with the Camden group!

01/24/23
Dr. Jenkins and postdoc Tern enjoyed their time in Thailand, touring and giving talks at both PACCON and VISTEC.

01/06/23
We’re starting off the new year right with a publication from the MONT project! Congratulations Jacob!

11/22/22
Welcome to new members Henry and Patrick, joining us as first-year graduate students!

11/01/22
Congratulations to Gurkiran on the publication of her first-author review of NHC-functionalized gold surfaces, written in collaboration with the Camden group. This review is also featured as the inside cover art for the December 11, 2022 issue of Chemical Communications. Check it out here!

10/21/22
This week Connor presented the results of his research at SERMACS in Puerto Rico. 

05/21/22
Congratulations to Rowan, Henry, and Logan for completing their undergraduate degrees!

04/05/22
Kevin’s first-author paper was recently published in Dalton Transactions. Check it out here!

03/01/22
We’d like to welcome our newest member, Dr. Phattananawee Nalaoh, who has joined us as a postdoctoral research associate!

01/06/22
Check out Xian’s new paper in Inorganic Chemistry!

12/21/21
Congratulations to Rowan and Shelby on the ACS Omega paper!

09/28/21
Our recent work with the Camden group has been published in Analytical Chemistry!

05/20/21
We welcome Gurkiran Kaur, our newest graduate student and member of Team SERS!

Congratulations to Shelby on the publication of her Organometallics paper!

05/10/21
Congratulations to Joe and Xian on their recent Chem. Sci. publication!

05/07/21
Today we wish Shelby all the best as she graduates and continues her career as a postdoc with the Crudden group at Queen’s University in Canada!

04/29/29
Congratulations to Shelby and Rowan on getting their collaborative paper published in Langmuir!

03/31/21
Today, Shelby successfully defended her dissertation today. Congratulations Dr. Strausser!

06/24/20
Our research into MONT growth, in collaboration with the Gianneschi group at Northwestern University, was recently published in ACS Nano.

02/04/20
Our collaborative research with the Camden group at the University of Notre Dame was recently published in Angewandte Chemie.

01/08/20
Jacob Barrett and Jerred Russell have joined us as first-year graduate students. Welcome to the group!

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Open Position Announcements

Dr. Jenkins is currently recruiting graduate and undergraduate researchers for the following positions:

Post-doctoral position is available for Single Crystal X-Ray Crystallography and synthetic chemistry. Contact Dr. Jenkins if interested.

Graduate positions are available for all research projects, particularly macrocyclic carbenes for catalysis, NHCs on surfaces, and metal-organic nanotubes.

Undergraduate positions are available by annual sign up day.