Congratulations to Ashe, whose paper on supramolecular strategies to engineer permanently porous cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs) was recently published in Chemical Science. Congrats!

Congratulations to the supramolecular cage team on their recent publication in Inorganic Chemistry! Kathleen and Sophie showed that redox-active supramolecular cages can serve as mediators for electrosynthesis. In addition to being recyclable, the cages also outperform their monomeric analogues. Congrats!

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!

Our lab’s work has been recognized by a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship! Read more about our research as well as the other UW awardees in the UW News article.

Congratulations to graduate student Ashlyn Kamin and undergraduate alumni EJ Brannan, who recently published their work on metal–tetraoxolene chains in CrystEngComm! Their work highlights how choice of solvent, initial ligand redox state, and oxidant impact both crystal structure and crystal morphology. Congrats!

Congrats to undergraduate Kamaya Ronning, who was recently named a 2024-25 Levinson Emerging Scholar! This award is designed to support promising students who work on creative and sophisticated research projects in biosciences and related fields under the guidance of UW faculty.