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Celebratory coffee: A view from the first author's perspective. Congrats Dr. Tyler Grissom!

Chemistry Ph.D. Hallway Selfie! Yay graduates! ⁦Virginia Tech Chemistry⁩ ⁦Virginia Tech Science⁩

Wondering what to do with your free time this summer? Why not learn! Anatoly Frenkel is hosting the seminar "Chemical Agent Decontamination Materials: Shining Light on Active Species and Active Sites" at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center on June 11th. Hope to see you there!

How many scientists does it take to move an instrument? 5. Sadly, the answer is 5

A big congratulations to Dr. Conor Sharp on successfully defending his dissertation! His research focused on understanding adsorption, diffusion, and reaction dynamics of chemical warfare agent simulants with metal-organic frameworks. Murray recognizes a degree well earned.

Nothing spooky while the doctor is in town (with proper PPE)! A big congratulations to Dr. Cecilia Amick on her successful PhD. thesis defense on instrument development for exploring the influence of interfacial chemistry on aerosol growth, aging, and partitioning of gases

Great poster presentations today from undergraduates Anna Falls and Chris Stoll on their research! Anna has been studying metal-support interactions on supported metal nanoparticles and Chris has been studying catalysis on similar materials to decompose chemical warfare agents.

A little while back, our group and collaborators published a forum article regarding MOFs and POMs as sorbents for the uptake and destruction of chemical warfare agents in ACS applied materials and interfaces. Great work by all contributors! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Can't think of a better way to finish the week than having a group coffee celebrating another exciting Morris group publication. Congratulations Andrew on the first of many papers and novel discoveries!

Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming back group alum Dr. Driscoll. He spoke about the exciting work he is doing at Argonne National Lab. Keep up the great work!

We welcome Mikaela Boyanich to the Morris Group! Mikaela joins us from Temple University where she earned a B.S. in Chemistry. Her main project will involve discovering new chemistries for the uptake and destruction of chemical warfare agents using metal-organic frameworks.

The Morris Group welcomes Rahaf Rousan to the group! She graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Biochemistry and is currently working to develop disruptive physical and chemical separation technologies that are capable of extracting Rare Earth Elements. Welcome back!

Congratulations to group member Andrew Maynes on his EXCELLENT internal seminar this week!

A belated congratulations to Graham Frazier on his Graduate Service Award for the Spring of 2021!

Another COVID friendly seminar to celebrate! Congratulations to Nick Sapienza for his talk on Small Molecule Oxidation over Pt/TiO2

Read the latest publication out of the Morris Group! Congrats Nathan! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

The achievements keep rolling in for the lab! Andrew Maynes gave a fantastic talk at the 95th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium titled "Uncovering the Mechanism of Methanol Oxidation over Cu/TiO2 Aerogels at the Gas-Surface Interface". Send some congratulations his way!

Kristin Knight is a visiting graduate student from the University of Memphis. She completed a BS in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is currently in her fourth year at Memphis and we are excited to have her here for the summer!

🚨🚨DEFENSE ALERT🚨🚨 Huge congrats to Andrew Maynes for successfully defending his thesis!!! We'll be sad to lose such a valuable group member, but excited to see what the future holds for him. Next step - working for Intel in San Jose, California

Day 1 of #CBDST2022 from the Morris group in pictures