The day has finally come! For the last two years, Pat has been planning a special issue of Chemical Reviews on nitrogen chemistry, and it has now come out (Editorial is at this link). The cover is splendid, and was designed, drawn, and managed by Allie Nagelski: check it out here. Thanks to the whole group for helping to brainstorm ideas, with special commendation to Kazimer Skubi for coming up with the issue title of “Reactivity of Nitrogen from the Ground to the Atmosphere” (as well as alternatives such as “Just N₂ of Us: We Can Make It If We Try”).

Congratulations to Daniel Kim on the publication of his paper on the mechanism of catalytic hydrosilylation by our cobalt catalyst system. This has been a long and difficult road - like all mechanistic papers - and it was a project that started from Chi Chen during our collaboration with Dan Weix at Rochester. Great job all around!

Our recent graduate Sean McWilliams is the recipient of a prestigious Young Investigator Awards from the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. These are given each year to the eight top inorganic chemistry Ph.D.s in the whole country. The journal Inorganic Chemistry recently described Sean and the other recipients in this article. Congrats to Sean!

Congratulations to Jessica Armstrong, who received an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation for her application for a graduate fellowship.