It was great to celebrate and honor Brent Sumerlin who was recognized with the ACS POLY Division Mark Scholar Award 🥇Congratulations! Sumerlin Research Group continues to push the limits of polymer chemistry 🤩

Congratulations to all four of our undergraduate students (Alyssa, Riley, Veronica, Maya) for receiving a college research scholarship for the fall semester!

Come and be my colleague! We are hiring a computational/theoretical chemist. K State is a great place to work and we have a wonderful and supportive department! Please share and DM me if you have any questions 😊

Got to present some of our cancer related research at the Johnson Cancer Research Center Data Blitz! We are grateful for the research funding and support 🙏💜

Great first day at the Midwest regional ACS meeting in Omaha! Poster presentations from our undergrads Maya, Veronica, and Alyssa and graduate student Dean. Congratulations to Alyssa for winning the PMSE undergraduate poster award 🥇🤩

Grateful to be awarded an ACSPRF new directions grant for synthesizing complex precision polymer architectures by ADMET polymerization 😃 cen.acs.org/acs-news/Fall-…

We would like to welcome 3 new first-year PhD students to the Calvo Group: Ayesha, Dilanka, and Digambar. This brings us up to 5 graduate students and 7 undergrads! It's very exciting to see the group grow! 😃

Call for Henkel award nominations: The deadline is January 24, 2025! Complete award information: polyacs.org/henkel-award-f… #POLYPMSEstudentaward #Henkelstudentaward

New group picture from our holiday party! Missing a few undergrads but gained a “mini” group member 🤩

Congratulations Veronica and Riley for being selected for a Johnson Cancer Research Center undergraduate research award! 🎉👏 k-state.edu/media/newsrele…

Call for nominations: Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering Deadline for submission is next Friday! polyacs.org/henkel-award-f… #POLYstudentaward

Nominations for the Henkel Award are due today!

Very proud of our undergraduate researchers who were awarded scholarships for Spring 25. Maya, Brett, Alyssa and Ishi received scholarships from K-State Arts and Sciences and Veronica and Riley from K-State Cancer Research. We are grateful for the support! k-state.edu/media/newsrele…

Our first departmental seminar speaker this semester is Prof. Adrian Figg from Virginia Tech Chemistry Join us this Thursday at 1:05 pm in King 004. Bio: figglab.com/adrian

Join POLY at #ACSFall2025 to celebrate Elizabeth Murphy receiving the 2025 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Excellence in Polymer Science & Engineering! Congrats Dr. Murphy! You can view her statement at: polyacs.org/henkel-award-f…

Congratulations to our students who received awards last night at the K-State Cancer Research banquet! Prabhleen, Veronica and Riley received undergraduate research awards and Graham received a summer research fellowship and travel award 🎊😊

Congrats to Riley Blitt, a JCRC Cancer Research Awardee, who graduated this semester. His JCRC mentor was Dr. Calvo in @kstatechemistry. Riley will be heading to the University of Nebraska to pursue a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. #kstate #thecurestartswithus #kstatecra

Very excited to collaborate on this project and grateful for the fellowship support from BioPACIFIC MIP! Automated synthesis is really pushing the boundaries and opening completely new possibilities 🤩

Had a great week at the polymers GRC where 2nd year grad student Graham presented his work on polymers for internal radiation therapy (supported by K-State Cancer Research ). So much great science, especially from all the amazing graduate students! The future is bright 🤩

Congrats Prabhleen!