Hanging in there🧗

Officially started my position at Penn State Chemistry last week (Happy 2022!), and I am delighted to welcome Rick Josey and Balu Ratheesh to the lab as the very first members of the research team!

Richard Josey (Rick Josey) hails from Trinity, NC. Rick earned his B.S. in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry in 2021, and he is pursuing a PhD in chemistry at Penn State. He is the recent recipient of a first-year graduate student award from the chemistry department Penn State Chemistry.

Now 2nd-year (!) grad students, Balu Ratheesh and Rick Josey (Rick Josey) rocked their 1st-year committee meetings in August, crossing the first major milestone of their grad careers! I am excited to see where they take their projects in the next year (& beyond).

Take a look at some of the research being done in Julie Fenton's lab! Pic 1: Grad student Rick Josey and Fenton observe new crystalline hybrid materials. Pic 2: Josey shines UV light at a sample of new semiconductor materials. Read more about the Fenton Group in the bio link!

Chemistry department graduate students had a great weekend! On Saturday we supported the Penn State LGBTQIA+ 🌈community by running in the Super Gay 5K (along with some furry friends🐶), and on Sunday we enjoyed a beautiful group hike of Mount Nittany!🌳

Utilizing the intermolecular interactions of organic spacers to tune mechanical response in 2D copper bromide hybrids. Just out from Josey Rick Josey and Fenton Julie Fenton. Please have a look: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Pleased to share the first paper from my group in Inorganic Chemistry! Work was led by third year Penn State Chemistry grad student Rick Josey (Rick Josey).