Don't miss the 41st GSS at UB Dept of Chemistry !

Grateful to the Sloan Foundation for supporting the partnership of UPR Cayey, Inter Arecibo, InterBayamon, Chemistry Department, and UB Dept of Chemistry on a project that seeks to expand pathways for undergraduate students from Puerto Rico to chemistry graduate programs.

RCSA will offer virtual #CottrellScholar Office Hours sessions on May 16 & 17 to help potential applicants prepare for the upcoming July 1, 2024, deadline for Cottrell Scholar Award proposals. Register by May 3. bit.ly/3vKioWL

Congrats to Damalka Balasuriya, graduate student in UB Dept of Chemistry. Her TEM image (magnetic nanoparticle (black) decorated with solid (blue) and fibrous (yellow) silica nanolayers) won "Best Communication of Research" in the "Art of Research" competition of UBuffalo Graduate School.

We highly encourage our community members to nominate groundbreaking colleagues for C&EN Trailblazers! All nominations will be submitted by April 30th #LatinXChem

Are you receiving our news updates? This month we feature #Cottrell STAR, IMPACT & Holland awards, a new #Scialog series, and our first cohort of #RCSAFellows. Join our email list! conta.cc/3U1gVmV

Academia, we need to pay attention to what a CHE curriculum must include and emphasize to equip our students for the demand!

2025 Sloan Research Fellowship nominations are open! These two-year, $75k awards support early-career researchers whose accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. Nominate yourself or share with your network! More info: sloan.org/fellowships

Congrats to our 2024 Holland Award recipients: Jorge López, University of Texas, El Paso; Leyte Winfield, Spelman College; Nadya Mason, University of Chicago; and Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University. Welcome to the #CottrellScholar community!

Very proud of the outstanding students from ⁦⁦UPR Cayey⁩ and RUM/UPRM and their accomplishments in the summer research program at ⁦UBuffalo⁩. Excelente! ⁦UB Dept of Chemistry⁩ ⁦Sloan Foundation⁩ ⁦UBuffalo Engineering and Applied Sciences⁩ ⁦@UBSTEM⁩

The ColonLab and friends summer gathering. We had a beautiful day! I still don’t know who were the winners of the cornhole game!

At Seneca Falls, NY, site of the first Women Right Convention- nps.gov/wori/index.htm After much struggle and the advances we take for granted, women still find barriers in our society because of unjust systems we men have created throughout history!

Grateful to NBC News for the honor of selecting me as one of their “Latino 10”. Thank you indeed! Gracias! Congratulations to the other nine extraordinary accomplished individuals selected. Thank you for your great work! nbcnews.com/news/latino/la….

Cool podcast featuring ⁦Luisa Whittaker-Brooks⁩ ⁦Utah Chemistry⁩ discussing her work and journey kpcw.org/show/cool-scie…

Always amazed by the ingenuity of the ColonLab. Now they have tried to replicate me for my b-day. Thank you very much for the surprise. Indeed, it made my day! Great cake!

Luis A. Colón cen.acs.org/careers/divers… via C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) Indeed, very honored to have been included in this year’s Trailblazers issue and be among this outstanding group-kudos to all. Thank you C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) for the honor and to all who have reached out with very kind words. Gracias!

Happy to have hosted Prof Arriaga from ⁦UMN Department of Chemistry⁩ while visiting ⁦UB Dept of Chemistry⁩ for our Foster Colloquium seminar series. Glad he had a chance to visit Niagara Falls-a flash tour, still enough to get wet by the Falls! Thank you for sharing your research with us!

Celebrating with ⁦Joseph Gardella⁩ at his retirement party in the ⁦UB Dept of Chemistry⁩ - here with analytical chemists colleagues. Thank you Joe for all your contributions to science, to ⁦UBuffalo⁩ and the community. We wish you all the best in retirement.

An amazing Networking Roundtable "Building an academic career as a Separation Scientist" at Pittcon Conference + Exposition 2025! @ACS_ANYL ACS SCSC American Chemical Society

2025 Analytical Division Award Winners acsanalytical.org/2025/03/04/202… An honor and a privilege to be the 2025 recipient of the Joseph J. Kirkland Award in Chromatography. This is for all ColonLabers!