I’m asking for your vote because as president, I will get up every day and fight for the American people.

🔥 #ACSMacroLetters Hot Paper Alert 🔥 📑 Electrochemical Postpolymerization Modification and Deconstruction of Macromolecules 🖊 Joshua D. Marquez et al UF Chemistry Brent Sumerlin Austin Evans Read this trending paper ➡ go.acs.org/bwd

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

Allylic Epoxides Increase the Strain Energy of Cyclic Olefin Monomers for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Benjamin R. Elling and co-workers) Ben Elling • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

What is Benjamin Elling's favorite thing about his research group? Ben Elling, The Elling Lab Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page x.com/16467437/statu… • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country. Brief explainer for those not in this world: buff.ly/3EtML7D

These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars

Becker and Heckman in 2012 on the case for government funding of basic research

Just what people voted for - an end to cancer research.

Please make sure your child is up to date on vaccines. Measles is highly contagious and serious.

Hitting the ground running in 2025 with another new paper, this time in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Here, #Graham and team used redox-orthogonal, pendent phthalimide esters to electrolytically modify & degrade PMMA/PMA copolymers! Brent Sumerlin Evans Research Group Austin Evans tinyurl.com/MacroElec

Thrilled to announce that I will be starting my independent career at Chemistry at Illinois this fall. The Strauss Group (Strauss Research Group) will work at the interface of synthetic methods development and polymer science to uncover new strategies in polymer design and functionalization.

Also pleased to share our work will be featured on the cover of the August edition on RSC Polymer Chemistry!

Gutting scientific funding and scaring away talented immigrants while raising the cost of manufacturing stuff in America is, genuinely, like something we’d be forced to do after losing a war to a geopolitical adversary that deviously sought to hamstring US technological power for

3,6-Anhydrogalactal as a Single-Addition Monomer for Chain-End Functionalization of Metathesis Polymers | Journal of the American Chemical Society Boston College Chemistry Boston College pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…