Jonathan’s paper was the finalist for the Cozzarelli Prize at PNAS! There is only one award and one finalist each year, for the best paper in PNAS in each of 6 categories. Read more about it here.

We had a great time at the American Physical Society meeting downtown! Jonathan, Harry, and Tyler gave excellent talks, and Jonathan was in the Padden Symposium. Pictured below is our group dinner, also joined by various Olsen group members and alumni, including Danielle Mai’s group, Ameya Rao, and Chelsea Edwards.

Mitchell has received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! Check out the press release here. Congrats to Mitchell and all the other Sloan Fellows in 2022!

Welcome to 3 new members of the group! Maddie is an undergrad in Northwestern ChBE. Dhanvi is a M.S. student from the India Institute of Petroleum and Energy. Chris is a Ph.D. student from the University of Minnesota. Looking forward to having everyone!

Justin placed 1st in his section at the AIChE undergrad conference in Boston. Congrats!

Jonathan’s paper on visualizing polymers in solid materials was published in PNAS. Avram and Ruimeng also had important contributions. The paper was also highlighted by Northwestern Engineering News. Congrats!

Yusu’s paper was highlighted by ACS Central Science in a First Reactions piece. Thanks to the Frechette group for their perspective!

We were also highlighted by Northwestern Engineering News. Check out the article!

Yusu’s paper was published in ACS Central Science. It’s a new method to measure adhesive properties at extremely high throughput. We collaborated with the Tullman-Ercek and Shull groups. Congrats Yusu!

Arthur and Justin have been awarded grants from McCormick to work with us this summer. Congrats to both!

Welcome to Justin Griffith, Nicholas Kalamaris, and Arthur Perce! They are all sophomores in ChBE at Northwestern.