Wow, oh, wow!! The three of us are moving to New Mexico this summer. Proud of my husband for accepting a postdoc at LANL!

Happy to share that I will be joining Los Alamos National Laboratory this summer as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Excited to learn new chemistry and explore the high altitude desert w/ Lauren and Sully.

Join a fantastic work environment with good people all around. I enjoyed my time in the group very much and Charlottesville has so much to offer in the way of food, music, friendly people, and access to the outdoors.

I had a really fun time fishing with my Grandpa today. We found a fawn, saw a bald eagle, and even found a few fish.

The coolest thing about my new job is that my email monicker is just: asa... thanks mom and dad for the unique name!

Found a nice brown trout creek today. @ New Mexico instagram.com/p/CRfeE_PhR6h/…

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CRtp_l4B1lN/…

The final chapter of ⁦Asa⁩ thesis ⁦UVA Chemistry⁩ is now out in ⁦J. Am. Chem. Soc.⁩ thanks to invaluable help from ⁦Emma Cook⁩ and our superb collaborators from ⁦H.S. Shafaat⁩ , congratulations! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check it out! Thanks Emma Cook and H.S. Shafaat for taking this to the finish line. Anyone out there looking for a graduate school, you can’t go wrong with UVA Chemistry and Charles Machan.

New Mexico is fun. #flyfishnewmexico instagram.com/p/CTLNmEtrw4A/…

.Grocery shopping at Smith’s Marketplace owned by Kroger. Every time we come here the length of checkout lines is unacceptable. Hire more workers at a living wage!

We spent the morning hiking, listening to herds of elk, watching bulls push each other around, and hearing a pack of coyotes too. Life is good.

Five weeks from Tuesday there will be college basketball.

The final result of Emma Cook 's efforts, now out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Emma elucidated a 2+2 ORR pathway for a bioinspired Fe-based complex. As always we are grateful for the help of crystallographer extraordinaire Dr. Diane Dickie! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… UVA Chemistry @uvavpr

There’s something special about slipping into a food coma after eating just the right amount on Thanksgiving.

Mixed snowboard cross is a really fun event. #Snowboard #TeamUSA

Butter popcorn on the WVU sidelines for the receiving core?

Turned the women’s national championship off because the refs made it unwatchable…that tech…other highly questionable calls. All we want is consistency. The refs have been consistently bad.

PSA: nobody on the trail wants to hear the music blasting out of your speaker