The University of Rochester set up their tent encampment yesterday and in less than 48 hours was able to negotiate with the administration a report that will be released on the academic ties to Israeli universities, that will be coupled with a resolution that will be voted on. 👏🏻

Congratulations, Claudia Turro, on becoming one of the newest elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences!

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Oh look it’s me 😊

Your Am Soc for Mass Spec Board on Fri AM after #ASMS2024 Anaheim. Planning for #ASMS2025 has already begun. Fill-in the post-conf survey to help us develop the 2025 Baltimore program. Usually we get only 1/3rd of you responding. Maybe we’ll provide more ice cream next year if more respond.

I had a wonderful time attending the NOBCChe Midwest Regional Symposium with our chapter from OSU! A great opportunity with connect with others, listen to wonderful presentations, and present my work to the community. Looking forward to the next event! #nobcche #blackinchem

We are on a roll! Congratulations to Dr. Solita Wilson (Solita Wilson ), PhD #9, on the successful thesis defense! Purdue Chemistry AnfacPurdue #blackinchem #latinxinchem

And that’s a wrap to #ACSFall2024 !!! Glad I got the opportunity to present my work, with the support of some wonderful colleagues 😊

Vacation Relaxation?

🔥 On the hottest day of the year … A fitting celebration 🥳 of our best new way to make triangles ⚠️ from aldehydes & alkenes … like a chocolate & vanilla twist! Our 1st J. Am. Chem. Soc. cover 🍦💃🕺🏽

See how mass spectrometry is the best analytical tool? Very mindful ⭐️ very classy ⭐️ very demure ⭐️

Super excited and honored to be selected this year for the Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship award ❤️ Couldn’t have gotten this without all the amazing trainees I’ve worked with in the last 7 years ❤️🫶 Analyst #AcademicLife #ItTakesAVillage

My manuscripts folder

This last week at the 51st annual NOBCChe conference, we had wonderful s to debt presentation by some of our members! Amazing oral presentations by Shreyasi (WRG_Chem), Bertha (Psaras McGrier), and Salmika (The Badu-Tawiah Research Group) 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

We had a wonderful time tabling and promoting the graduate program at the career expo Ohio State Chemistry and Biochemistry . It was wonderful to see both old and new faces at this year’s conference!! And we’re excited to attend next year’s conference 🎉🎉🎉 #nobcche

Check out one of our most recent papers- wonderful work courtesy of Dr. Alex Grooms Alex Grooms, PhD out now in Angewandte Chemie ‘Programmable C–N Bond Formation through Radical-Mediated Chemistry in Plasma-Microdroplet Fusion’ Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

How doing a literature review feels

Its a necessary part of my writing process 🙂

Are you a graduate student or Postdoc in Chemistry? Enter the PREDICT Abstract Competition! Winners will be invited to present at the PREDICT symposium and receive a cash prize! Honorable mentions will be invited to our lightning talk competition! See below for more information

Badu Lab Wrapped 2024: • 5 new members • Several new papers (with 2 selected for cover/inside cover art) • Too many conferences to recount • A whole lot of fun (and more to look forward to)! It was a great year and we look forward to what 2025 holds😊 Happy holidays!