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2025
7 July: Welcome to Aparna Tyagi, a new postdoctoral researcher joining us after her PhD at IIT Delhi!
15 June: Congratulations to our undergraduate alumni at Dartmouth Commencement 2025 - Jack Ranani wins the Chemistry Hartshorn Medal (the inaugural winner was future Nobel prize laureate Barry Sharpless!), Kat Plaza is a valedictorian, and Colby Lish wins the Pfizer Green Chemistry and Shafer/Bowen Undergraduate Teaching Awards.
2 June: Welcome to UTSA undergraduates Meredith Slimp and Mauricio Calzada, and REU students Emily Nguyen and Cooper Malloy! Congratulations also to Meredith for receiving the Janice and Michael Doyle Endowed Research Award in Chemistry.
6 March: Our research is highlighted on UTSA Today, see here.
10 February: Welcome to Jitao Xu, a new postdoctoral researcher who is joining us after obtaining his PhD from Xiamen University.
3 February: The group welcomes Jacob Dalton, a new postdoctoral researcher coming to us from the University of California, Davis.
1 January: The Sandford Lab has moved to UTSA! We wish the very best for those group members who transitioned to other groups and roles at Dartmouth.
2024
9 December: Well done to Max for presenting his research at Dartmouth Chemistry's Graduate Research Symposium.
20 November: Congratulations to Jack, who successfully defended his Honors Thesis today!
30 August: The group is moving to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in January 2025! More information about the Department of Chemistry at UTSA can be found here: https://sciences.utsa.edu/chemistry/
11 June: The Sandford lab receives an NIH MIRA R35 award to support our continued efforts in switchable organometallic catalysis.
29 May: Congratulations to Max for completing his 3rd year research proposal, and well done to Colby for his poster presentation at the recent Karen E. Wetterhahn Symposium.
16 April: Well done to Randy for being selected to attend the ACS GCI Green & Sustainable Chemistry Summer School in Burlington, VT this summer.
13 February: Congratulations to Abby for passing her qualifying exam!
2023
15 November: Yagmur Unal and Randy Sutio join the group as graduate students - welcome!
18 October: Chris has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Automating Chemical Laboratories.
11 September: Welcome to Maya Raghunathan, an undergraduate student joining the group with URAD, and to graduate rotation student Yagmur Unal.
18 July: Excited to start work on our Pfizer collaboration with colleagues at the Process Chemistry Group in Groton, CT!
24 May: Well done to Brennah and Jack for their poster presentation at the Karen E. Wetterhahn Symposium. Additional congratulations go to our undergrads for receiving the following prizes/scholarships: Brennah wins a WISP Research Engagement Award; Jack, Ryan and Colby all receive James O. Freedman Presidential Scholarships.
17 May: Trees are in blossom in the Upper Valley - a great time for a new group photo!
8 April: We had a great time at Dartmouth's 2023 Science Day, sharing outreach activities using dry ice, elephant toothpaste, and catalyzing color changes with nanoparticles.
4 April: Congrats to Max for receiving an Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher nomination from DCAL.
27 March: Welcome to graduate rotation student Randy Sutio, who is working with us during the Spring and Summer terms.
31 January: We say goodbye to Jorge, as he leaves to start his independent career at the Morelos Autonomous State University in Mexico. Good luck in your new position Jorge!
16 January: Congratulations to Max for passing his qualifying exam!
4 January: Welcome to Brennah Slaney and Colby Lish, two new undergraduate students joining the group through the WISP and URAD programs, respectively.
2022
22 December: Our first paper comes out in JOC - a great collaboration with the Tsai lab. Check it out here to learn more about contrasting thermodynamic and kinetic control mechanisms observed throughout the substrate scope!
11 November: Welcome to Abigail Procione, a new graduate student in the group.
21 October: The group celebrated National Chemistry Week with the Department - carving pumpkins, and outreach to showcase how different fabrics separate commercially available dyes.
21 September: We are excited to announce our first external funding - a grant from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable to study greener peptide synthesis starts on October 1. We are looking forward to working with the industrial members of the Roundtable on this project!
15 August: New group photo and great views from our Disc Golf trip:
11 July: The group welcomes Kim Wasik, a new postdoctoral colleague coming to us from the University of Nevada, Reno.
22 June: Welcome to Ryan, who joins the group this summer as a URAD undergraduate.
25 May: Well done to Kat and Lord Charité for presenting their WISP posters at the Karen E. Wetterhahn Symposium today. We celebrated with some dinner too!
Additional congratulations to Lord Charité on recently being selected as an E.E. Just Undergraduate Fellow.
5 May: Jorge's arrival was also marked by delivery of our new toy - the group's new glovebox arrived today too!
5 May: We welcome Jorge Garduño to the group, a new postdoctoral colleague who joins us from the Glueck group down the hall!
25 February: More major equipment installed! We're looking forward to running analysis with our new HPLC and GC instruments.
3 January: Welcome to two new undergraduate students joining us through the WISP program - Kat & Lord!
2021
22 December: Some of our major equipment and instruments have been installed over the last few weeks - take a look at our solvent purification system and photoreactor. More to come after the holidays!
9 November: Welcome to the group's first graduate student - Max!
28 October: We have a fully funded postdoctoral position available - learn how to apply here.
6 October: First reactions are running in the lab!
15 September: The group welcomes its first undergraduate students - Dahlia & Jack!
1 September: The lab opens its doors for the first time today!
8 June: Launch of our group website! The Sandford Lab will join Dartmouth in Fall 2021.
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