{"id":10502,"date":"2026-02-27T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/?page_id=10502"},"modified":"2026-07-13T19:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:59:25","slug":"pi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/pi\/","title":{"rendered":"PI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>About Rose<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div style=\"display:flex; align-items:flex-start; gap:30px;\">\n<div>\n<h4><strong>C. Rose Kennedy, PhD<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\n            Assistant Professor of Chemistry<br \/>\n            University of Rochester<br \/>\n            Email: <a href=\"mailto:c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu\">c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<h4><strong>Education &amp; Experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (2017\u20132019)<br \/>\n                 Princeton University <em> (w\/ Paul Chirik)<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011\u20132016)<br \/>\n                 Harvard University <em> (w\/ Eric Jacobsen)<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> B.S. in Chemistry (2007\u20132011)<br \/>\n                 University of Rochester <em> (w\/ Alison Frontier &#038; Kara Bren)<\/em> <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rose_Kennedy_2025-05-30_square-crop-1024x1024.jpeg\"\n             alt=\"C. Rose Kennedy standing in front of hexagonal tiles\"\n             style=\"width:250px; max-width:none;\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rose discovered her passion for chemistry as an undergraduate student at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Rochester<\/a>, where she explored many aspects of the \u201ccentral science\u201d through research with Professors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/bren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kara L. Bren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/frontier\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alison J. Frontier<\/a> and through numerous peer\u2011teaching opportunities for classes ranging from general and organic chemistry to chemical instrumentation. Upon graduating <em>summa cum laude<\/em> in 2011, she pursued doctoral research as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~jacobsengroup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric N. Jacobsen<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard University<\/a>. During her time in the Jacobsen group, she discovered a synergistic ion\u2011binding strategy for enantioselective catalysis and elucidated key mechanistic features of reaction systems for ion\u2011binding catalysis. She next moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/chemistry.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princeton University<\/a> to examine the cooperative interplay of redox\u2011active transition metals and ligands in selective catalysis from an organometallic perspective as an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/chirik.princeton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul J. Chirik<\/a>. At Princeton, she leveraged mechanistic insights to develop catalytic methodology for upgrading unactivated olefins to value\u2011added motifs through the formation and control of metallacyclic intermediates. Rose returned to the University of Rochester in January 2020 to launch her independent career as an Assistant Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Chemistry<\/a>. There, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/research-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kennedy Research Group<\/a> combines mechanistic elucidation and the development of synthetic methodology to modulate and control catalytic reactivity. Rose has been recognized with awards including a Packard Fellowship, NIH Maximizing Investigator Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, Kavli Fellowship, Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator Award, and Amgen Young Investigator Award. She was appointed as the James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor for the 2024\u20132026 term.<\/p>\n<p>Rose was recently interviewed as part of Synform\u2019s Young Career Focus; read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thieme.de\/statics\/dokumente\/thieme\/final\/en\/dokumente\/tw_chemistry\/CFZ-Synform-Rose-Kennedy_YCF.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Rose C. Rose Kennedy, PhD Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of Rochester Email: c.r.kennedy@rochester.edu Education &amp; Experience NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (2017\u20132019) Princeton University (w\/ Paul Chirik) NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2011\u20132016) Harvard University (w\/ Eric Jacobsen) B.S. in Chemistry (2007\u20132011) University of Rochester (w\/ Alison Frontier &#038; Kara Bren) Rose discovered her passion for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/pi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11202,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10502\/revisions\/11202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}