{"id":442,"date":"2019-03-14T02:25:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/?page_id=442"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:05:15","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>May 2025<\/h4>\n<p>A big round of congratulations to Kennedy Lab undergraduates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/personal-expressions\/v2\/assets\/emoticons\/womanstudent\/default\/50_f.png?v=v39\" alt=\"Woman student\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" aria-label=\"Woman student\" \/>Recent graduate, Rebecca Reagan (BS, 2025), who will be starting graduate school at Princeton in the Chirik Lab<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/statics.teams.cdn.office.net\/evergreen-assets\/personal-expressions\/v2\/assets\/emoticons\/manstudent\/default\/50_f.png?v=v27\" alt=\"Man student\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" aria-label=\"Man student\" \/>Recent graduate, Abraham Ellenbogen (BS, 2025), who will be continuing in the Kennedy Lab for another year through the integrated BS\/MS program.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2cRising senior, Matthew Gleason, who earned a highly competitive research internship at Corteva this summer<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udd2c\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2cRising juniors, Annapurna Chakraborty and Zachary Paine, who earned a Schwartz Discover Grant and Research Innovation Grant, respectively, from UR Office for Undergraduate Research, to begin full-time research in the Kennedy Lab this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>November 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>We are excited to welcome to first-year graduate students Jin Hyeok Yoon and Dilmi Witharana as official Kennedy Lab members.<\/li>\n<li>A huge congratulations to Dr. Kaycie Malyk, who successfully defended her dissertation to earn the first Kennedy Lab PhD!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>July 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>We are grateful to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Chemical Catalysis and CSDM-B Programs in the Division of Chemistry for supporting our research with a CAREER Award! We are excited to continue our work on &#8220;CAREER: Tautomeric-Ligand-Enabled Olefin Functionalization and Cross-Coupling Using Terrestrially Abundant Transition Metal Catalysts&#8221;!<\/li>\n<li>Rose is honored to be appointed\u00a0as the James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor<span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"> of Chemistry for the 2024\u20132026 period. The Wilmot Professorship was established <\/span><\/span>to support &#8220;some of the most promising young men and women in the early stages of their academic careers.&#8221; The fund supports the appointment of four Wilmot Assistant Professors, one in each of the major divisions of Arts, Sciences and Engineering at the University of Rochester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>June 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A warm welcome to Jessica Navarro Vega (current MS student, Universidad de Guanajuato) who is spending the summer with the Kennedy Lab as part of the prestigious iScholar program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>May 2024<\/h4>\n<p>A big round of congratulations to Kennedy Lab undergraduates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffb\u200d\ud83c\udf93 Recent graduate, Xijue (Jade) Wu (BS, 2023; Take-5, 2024), who will be starting graduate school at Princeton Chemistry Roque Lab in the fall<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udd2c Rising senior, Rebecca Reagan, who earned a highly competitive research internship in Global Discovery Chemistry at Novartis this summer<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2c Rising senior, Abraham Ellenbogen, who earned a prestigious ACS DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to continue his research in the Kennedy Lab full-time this summer.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2c Rising junior, Matthew Gleason, who earned a Schwartz Discover Grant from UR Office for Undergraduate Research, to begin full-time research in the Kennedy Lab this summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>March 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A warm welcome to Dr. Bappaditya Goswami (PhD, IISER Kolkata) who joined the Kennedy Lab as a postdoctoral scholar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2025 A big round of congratulations to Kennedy Lab undergraduates: Recent graduate, Rebecca Reagan (BS, 2025), who will be starting graduate school at Princeton in the Chirik Lab Recent graduate, Abraham Ellenbogen (BS, 2025), who will be continuing in the Kennedy Lab for another year through the integrated BS\/MS program. \ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udd2cRising senior, Matthew Gleason, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News&#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-442","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/kennedy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}