UVA Today highlighted Chang’s MRS Graduate Student Award
UVA Today highlighted Chang’s MRS Graduate Student Award! Congradulatons to Chang.
Tangi Akauola
Tangi is from Richmond Virginia, but his family immigrated from the pacific island of Tonga. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University for undergrad. He is pursuing a PhD in chemistry and interested in the field of inorganic chemistry and clean energy applications. He enjoys road trips, trying new restaurants and weight lifting. His favorite food is sushi or a good steak.
Bukuru Anaclet
Bukuru was born in Tanzania and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Pomona College in 2021 with a B.A in Chemistry and a minor in Mathematics. While at Pomona, he conducted research with Pierre Darancet at Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on functionalization of two-dimensional materials. He then joined the Zhang group in 2021 as a GEM and NSF graduate research Fellow. His current research is focused on polymer upcycling into value-added products and the thermocatalytic reduction of CO2.
Perrin Godbold Selected for U.S. Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research Program
Congratulations to Perrin for receiving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Science Graduate Student Research Award! Check out this nice UVA Today coverage!
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Grayson Johnson awarded the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Graudate Student Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Grayson for being awarded the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Student Research Fellowship! Check out this nice UVA Today coverage!
Chang Liu awarded prestigious Jefferson Dissertation Year Fellowship and Ritchie Award
Liyue Zhang
Liyue grew up in Shanxi, China. She received a B.S in Chemistry from Lanzhou University. Outside of lab, she enjoys reading fiction, watching movies and dancing
UVA Today and UVA College of Art and Science highlighted our recent work in Nature Catalysis
UVA Today and UVA College of Art and Science highlighted our recent work in Nature Catalysis. Congratulations to Chang, Zhiyong and Colton and all co-authors and collaborators!
ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grants
We have been awarded an ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grants! It allows us to start a new project on direct methane oxidation to methanol.
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News & Announcements
US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and DOE Director of the Office of Science Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe visited the Zhang lab
August 25, 2022
Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm was on grounds (Aug. 25, 2022) with DOE Director of the Office of Science Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Ph.D. and UVA President Jim Ryan to announce ... Read»
Bukuru Anaclet Wins Two Prestigious National Fellowships
April 14, 2022
It has been a good couple of months for UVA Chemistry graduate student Bukuru Anaclet. In March it was announced he had been awarded a GEM fellowship from the National GEM Consortium which... Read»
Prof. Zhang has been named a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
February 15, 2022
It was announced today that Prof. Zhang has been named a 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. Congratulations!
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Prof. Zhang received University of Virginia Research Excellent Award
February 4, 2022
Prof. Zhang received University of Virginia Research Excellent Award! Congratulations!!
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Our Team selected for Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award: Negative Emissions Science
January 24, 2022
Our Team selected for Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award: Negative Emissions Science... Read»
