The lab recently published two articles! Phuong and Leo summarized our lab’s work on conjugated macrocycles in an Accounts of Chemical Research article. Ashe recently published a a collection of crystal structures our lab has compiled on tetraoxolene ligands in Acta Cryst. Congratulations!

Congrats to Ashe on an outstanding PhD thesis defense! In addition to successfully defending, Ashe also received the 2025 George H. Cady Prize for Best Thesis in Inorganic Chemistry.

Congratulations to Xiao lab graduate student Devin Rollins and Xiao lab undergraduates Phoebe Chu and Kamaya Ronning for receiving scholarships from the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation! This scholarship recognizes students in the Pacific Northwest region who have demonstrated success in their academic pursuits in renewable energy, broadly defined.

Congratulations to graduate students Ashe, Devin, and Phuong, who were all recognized with departmental awards! Devin and Phuong both received a 2024-25 Excellence in Graduate Research Award in Inorganic Chemistry. Ashe received a 2024-2025 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award. Congratulations all!

Congratulations to undergraduates Queminh Tran and Kamaya Ronning, who have both received summer research fellowships! Queminh received a Mary Gates award to fund her research in the Xiao lab this summer. Kamaya was selected as an Amgen Scholar, and will be pursuing research at UC Berkeley this summer. Congratulations both!