How I look heading into my first defense as a committee member vs. how I feel (having defended myself not too long ago…)

Why do we fight to have Union Vets like Congressman Chris Deluzio in Congress? Because we know they will fight for us! "Here’s what I have to say about the Republicans’ bullshit plan to screw over veterans:." - Rep.Chris Deluzio, Proud United Steelworkers Union Union Veterans #1u

Hope you all had as much fun watching #ROTJ on the big-screen as we had making it. ❤️

Electocatalysis for near quantitative oxidation of biomass-derived moieties into poly-carboxylic acid precursors. Promising, but SLOW (24 hr rxn). If only there were a way to debottleneck these processes while maintaining selectivity to desired products… hmmm 😉

It's no surprise to his students, who've voted him the department's Outstanding Faculty the last several years, but Joe Chada has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB's Academic Senate for excellence in teaching . chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/excellenc…

Balancing family and parenthood with research, teaching, service, outreach, volunteerism, grant writing…

This week in the Walker Lab: Agilent GC/MSD system with tandem Frontier Microreactor install! This high-throughput catalyst screening system for pyrolysis research will enable us to assess the deoxygenation performance of novel active materials we will synthesize in-house.

This week in the Walker Lab: A journey of a thousand papers begins with a single synthesis. Congratulations to David Moses for creating the maiden active material out of our new group in SyracuseBMCE (a WO3/SiO2 catalyst). Thank you for all your hard work! Syracuse Engineering & Computer Science

Trying to talk to the speaker about your own research after a mind-blowing plenary talk.

*Last* week in the Walker Lab: old friends, new friends, great food and core memories for kiddos @NAM28NACS. Oh, and AMAZING science! One of my favorite things about catalysis is how it resides at the interface of so many different disciples, and this dynamic was on rich display!

You can't regulate schools out of doing what's right if they're committed and sincere in their intentions. Current admission policy declared unconstitutional? Fine. Prioritize recruiting from diverse backgrounds across MANY dimensions. Racial diversity should follow organically

As far as I'm concerned, this will never ever stop being funny. 😂

Follow my student-led group account, now live The Walker Lab! Group website and introductions to our inaugural class of PhD candidates and undergraduate researchers coming soon! :))

Having recently moved to Syracuse University, I made a guide to help my Upstate NY colleagues understand Midwest transplants like myself. Midwest vs. Everybody did I cover all the bases?

Hi, everyone. We are the The Walker Lab , and we use HPLC in our research. *crowd in smokey room replies* "Hi, Walker group!" This week SyracuseBMCE , we are on Step 1 - we admit that we are powerless over our instruments; and that probably only a miracle can fix them🤣

Delighted to share the Rorrer Lab's first publication!! Here, PhD student Julia Hancock and I review the latest in hydrogen-free plastic upcycling in Applied Catalysis B ! Free access through 9/4 at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hQVh3Id%7Et…

How alcohol molecules interact with themselves and the micropores in zeolites: Check out this paper in collaboration with our friends KU Leuven pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The lead author of this paper (Houqian Li) is going on the academic job market this year. If I were a chemical engineering or chemistry department looking for a new faculty member in catalysis, sustainability or plastic recycling I would definitely try to hire @houqianli.