Congratulations to Dan on the completion of his PhD! Dan has accomplished a wide range of iron and cobalt chemistry in his time with us, and has become one of our most valuable players. Dan will be continuing his academic journey in a postdoctoral position with Jonathan Owen at Columbia later this spring. Great job and best wishes, Dan!

Congratulations to Sean McWilliams on his paper in Chemical Communications, which describes an interesting mixed-valence N₂ complex of iron and its spectroscopy and magnetism. We also celebrated the appearance of a paper in Chemical Science describing the culmination of many years of work on CO₂ activation by a low-coordinate cobalt system. This was started by Malik Al-Afyouni at Rochester, had a lot of computational input from Lisa Roy from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and was brought to fruition by Dan DeRosha. Thanks to all!

Congratulations to our outreach team, which is led by Gannon Connor and includes grad students Daniel Kim and Allie Nagelski, and undergraduate students Megan Quimby, Sara Tridenti, Jack Atwater, Tori Hass-Mitchell, and Seungjung Sohn. They have done a lot of development and execution of activities involving gas chromatography for high-school students (at Common Ground High School and in the Pathways to Science programs), showing the students how chemists quantitatively analyze chemicals and sharing the fun of sustainable chemistry. During the Pathways Summer Scholars program, they got the highest rating of any activity, which is appropriate recognition for the careful and thoughtful development that they have accomplished collaboratively. Great job!!!

Congratulations to Kazimer Skubi, who is receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. This is a result of his strong background, his exciting planned work on iron-N₂ chemistry, and his very well-written proposal for the research strategy. Great work Kaz, and we look forward to big research success!