A massive congratulations to Dana Feldman, who has recently had two first-author publications published during her third year of undergraduate study at Yale. The first, in Chemical Communications, was the result of summer research in 2024 with Ulf-Peter Apfel in Bochum, Germany, and explored metal-salen complexes in gas diffusion electrodes. The second, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, was the result of summer research in 2025 with Cyrille Constentin in Grenoble, France, and explored the control of electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction by cobalt complexes. Dana is working on research in our group that will lead to several more papers. Great job, Dana!!

A huge congratulations to Linda Zuckerman, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Linda has been one of the most intrepid Holland Group members ever, as she tackled a project on surface attachment of organometallic complexes that is outside our comfort zone and involves a lot of concepts that are new to us. She handled this through interfacing with many collaborators, especially within the CHASE Solar Hub. During her time, she has also been a dedicated organizer of various events, including the YCS, a surface symposium, and a peer support network. Great job Linda!!

We have many new members that we are excited to welcome! Graduate students Olga Zubarieva, Ryan Pinard, and Chandler Woo have chosen to join us for their doctoral research, and we’re looking forward to great accomplishments from all of them! We are also happy to welcome postdoc Aishanee Sur, who did amazing Ph.D. research with David Powers at Texas A&M and who has great ideas on many of our synthetic directions. These enthusiastic chemists will form the next generation of outstanding Holland Group exploits!

Linda Zuckerman organized an excellent symposium on surface analysis, which was attended by dozens of members of the Yale chemistry department. Congratulations to Linda and well done!