News

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.

Congratulations to undergraduate Jonathan Aalto for being recognized as part of the Husky 100! Each year, the Husky 100 recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students from the UW Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma campuses in all areas of study who are making the most of their time at the University of Washington. See Jonathan’s profile here […]

Congratulations to Kathleen Snook, EJ Brannan, Jack Geary, and Sophie Song! Kathleen and EJ received awards from the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation, and Jack and Sophie received Honorable Mentions. These awards recognize students who are committed to renewable energy. Congrats all!

The lab receives a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! Read more here: https://www.dreyfus.org/2024-camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar-awards/

Congratulations to graduating Xiao lab seniors Audrey, EJ, and Jonathan on their amazing accomplishments! Audrey Hill and Jonathan Aalto received NSF GRFP awards, and EJ Brannan received an honorable mention. Congratulations all!!

Undergraduate Jonathan Aalto was selected as one of just twelve UW students to receive a Washington Research Foundation Fellowship! This program is designed to support promising undergraduate students who work on creative and sophisticated research projects in biosciences and related fields under the guidance of UW faculty. Congratulations to undergraduate Jonathan Aalto and his graduate […]

Congrats to Ashlyn (Ashe) Kamin for receiving a 2023 Cascade Energy Scholarship award from the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation! This scholarship recognizes students in Oregon and Washington who have demonstrated success in their academic pursuits in renewable energy, broadly defined.

Congrats to Ashe on their paper, which shows how polycatechol nanohoop ligands can be synthesized from fluorinated precursors and metalated! This manuscript was the result of a great collaboration with the Jasti group at the University of Oregon, and was selected as a “ChemSci Pick of the Week.” Check it out here in Chemical Science!