Maya Salem from Swanson School of Engineering is on a great trajectory on her PhD! Check out her recent work on “Single Atom Alloys Segregation in the Presence of Ligands” making the ACS for Authors cover in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C using #MachineLearning and #DFT ! Article: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Great mentoring doesn’t have to be overly complicated, but it also doesn’t happen automatically. Think about small actions you can take to learn a mentoring skill or adopt a new policy or practice with those you mentor. Great mentoring can result from a series of small steps.

When you talk, you're repeating what you already know - but if you listen, you may learn something new.

Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees, and titles. Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility, and generosity.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

"Fear of failure leads to failure." | Paulo Coelho

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Humbled by this award since mentoring is very close to my heart.. I have been very fortunate to be working with outstanding PhD students in my career. Many thanks to my all students and Pitt ChemE for the nomination.

Congratulate yourself on getting this far. Take a minute to be proud of yourself

So proud of Maya Salem from our lab who has been selected as the Pitt ChemE Graduate Research Assistant of the year by Swanson School of Engineering EGSO! Very well deserved recognition of Maya’s motivation for success, scientific contributions, mentorship and leadership!!

Proud of you Maya!! Swanson School of Engineering Pitt ChemE

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Our University of Pittsburgh Pitt ChemE students shared their creative videos from reactive process engineering projects with ACS Athens (American Community Schools of Athens) and Evaggeliki Model High School of Smyrna in Greece! Many thanks to Chris Makedonas and I. Kerkines for their help on this international teaching activity!

Emily Carter PPPL Princeton University delivering the 2024 Covestro distinguished lecture Pitt ChemE Swanson School of Engineering

Don't be impressed by money, followers, degrees, and titles. Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility, and generosity.

I’ve successfully defended my PhD!! Huge thanks to Karl Johnson University of Pittsburgh for mentoring me all these years! Also, thanks to my committee members Profess.or Profess.and John Keith Derek Stewart Geoff Hutchison (@[email protected]) and Leonardo for your support. I’m excited for what’s next to come.

Humbled to receive the best poster award at the Nanoscale Science & Engineering for Agriculture & Food Systems Gordon Research Conferences. Had an amazing experience & am grateful to be in such an inspiring community. Special thanks to colleagues in Dr. Steve Little, Leanne M Gilbertson, & Emily M. Elliott labs.

Fantastic opportunity in our lab!

Please join me in congratulating (now) Professor Giannis Mpourmpakis who has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering Pitt ChemE . Kudos mpourmpakis lab !!!

Critical feedback is never fun, but the people who are willing to kindly tell you when something needs improvement are so valuable. Not only does their feedback help you to make your work better, but you also know you can trust those people when they say that something is good!