April: Vidal attended the 2024 UC Chemical Symposium at Lake Arrowhead and hit the Lake Arrowhead Brewing Co. afterwards.

May: Congratulations to Vidal Lopez and Michael Olsen on receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award at the UC Riverside Excellence in Teaching Banquet.

September: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate student (and former undergraduate researcher) Jessica Lee, who will be working jointly with the Julian Lab.

Lab Members Colomba Sanchez and Philip Farias delivered poster presentations at the 2024 Socal Organometallics Symposium at UC San Diego.

December: Vidal Lopez was accepted to deliver a talk at the 2025 ACS Symposium in San Diego. Michael Olsen was accepted to deliver a poster presentation.

 

April: Congratulations to Colomba Sanchez-Marsetti on receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award at the UC Riverside Excellence in Teaching Banquet.

June: Congratulations to our undergraduate Grant Arehart on graduating with a BS in Chemistry and continuing on to his PhD program at the University of Kansas.
August: Group Member Philip Farias delivered a presentation "A Ni⁰ Complex of Unsymmetric Diboraanthracene Ligand" at the ACS Fall Conference in San Francisco.

 

May: Undergraduate Bigy Ambat delivered a presentation about his work synthesizing imidazole ligands at UCR's Undergraduate Research Symposium.

 

April: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate student Michael Olsen to the group.
September: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate student Vidal Lopez to the group.

 

January: The group received an NSF CAREER award to study small molecule activation by redox active boranes. [link]

 

October: A video is available highlighting our partnership with Chaffey College to provide research experiences for community college students. [link]
September: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate student Colomba Sanchez-Marsetti to the group.
August: Congrats to Jordan on his JACS paper. It has been selected as a "JACS Spotlight!" Read it here.
July: Jordan's paper in ACIE won the cover image, check it out here!

 

October: The lab was awarded funding by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund.
June: Hill was named a 2016 Hellman Fellow.
May: The Harman lab welcomes Martine, a visiting student from Utrecht University in Marc-Etienne Moret's lab.
March: Congrats to Pranee for being awarded the NSF GRFP!

 

August: The Harman lab welcomes Pranee as a new graduate student to the lab.
February: Harman Lab presents at the SoCal Organometallics Meeting at Caltech.

 

November: Congrats to Amy Bartrom and Andrew Patalano who passed their Second-Year Research Exam.
October: Congrats to Marissa Barrientos and Jordan Taylor who passed their Second-Year Research Exam.
July: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate student, Laura Essex to the group.
May: Harman Lab welcomes our first post-doc, Alex McSkimming to the group.

 

September: Harman Lab welcomes new graduate students Amy Bartrom and Andrew Patalano to the group.
August: The gloveboxes are up and running!
July 1st: Harman Lab Birthday! New graduate students, Marissa Barrientos and Jordan Taylor work hard to set up the lab.