Very proud of Olga Zubarieva and Ryan Pinard, who won departmental teaching awards yesterday, and Chandler Woo who was the co-organizer of the Yale Chemistry Symposium. Three superstars reaching their second year of graduate school!

Congratulations to Ryan Donnelly, whose outstanding crystallographic paper has appeared in ACS Central Science. Ryan compared the structures of a cobalt-hydride complex using neutron, X-ray, and electron diffraction with various types of refinement. He found that electron diffraction actually gives better location of the hydride than quantum refinement with X-ray data. So, even though the most attention has been paid to the small size of crystals for electron diffraction, another advantage is its ability to locate H atoms accurately!

Also, big kudos for the article title, which is another demonstration of Ryan’s punniness. 

A huge congratulations to Dana Feldman, who has won a Goldwater Fellowship. This is a super-selective program that recognized the top 454 undergraduates in all STEM fields in the U.S. Wow!

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!!