Alexander Laskin Research Group

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November 15, 2024

Welcome Dominik, Abby, and Seth, three gifted first-years who have just joined the Alex Laskin Group!

November 7, 2024

Congratulations Felipe on your very well-defended PhD dissertation. A very deserved achievement!

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October 16, 2024

Congratulations to Hannah and Tope on passing the Prelims! Another milestone reached.

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October 14, 2024

Congratulations to Felipe and Teomie on the beautiful addition to their family. Welcome, baby Kiana!

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September 27, 2024

Kudos to members of our group that gave fantastic presentations at the Turkey Run Analytical Conference.

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August 16, 2024

Hearty cheers to 3 members of our group who have been awarded fellowships for the 2024/2025 session. Congrats Felipe, Diego and Catalina on the Bilsland, Kampen and Fortune fellowships!

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March 20, 2024

Hats Off Dr. Siemens! Another degree bagged, a Doctorate degree very well earned. Congrats on a successful PhD defense Kyla.

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March 6, 2024

We say goodbye to Maria as she officially leaves the group today to start a new phase. All the best Dr. Misovich!

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November 16, 2023

Cogratulations! Dr. Misovich, on a successful PhD defense. You have done stellar work on this journey, and we are glad to witness the culmination of it all.

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November 10, 2023

Catalina, Shelby, Shudeepta and Julius have officially joined our group. Welcome to the Alex Laskin group, guys!

November 10, 2023

Congratulations on passing your OP Steven! With this, Steven confidently advances to PhD candidacy.

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October 5, 2023

The Alex Laskin Group, fully represented at the AAAR conference in Portland, Oregon.

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September 20, 2023

Big congratulations to Emily, whose 'bio-oil' paper has just been published in its final format. You have done great work. Cheers!

July 27, 2023

Goodbye to Pooja as she returns to India for completion of her PhD. Your work and persona speak for you. You'll be dearly missed.

May 19, 2023

Farewell to Jay as he officially departs the Laskin lab to take up a Postdoctoral role at NASA. All the best Jay!

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May 14, 2023

Cheers to Brianna on her MS accomplishments today at Purdue's graduation ceremony.

April 18, 2023

Congrats to Emily who received Hass Fellowship! We are proud of you.

March 28, 2023

Proud Chemists of the Laskin lab at the 2023 ACS spring meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

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February 27, 2023

Welcome to our new visiting scholar, Catalina Botero, who came here from Bogota, Colombia! 

February 23, 2023

Congratulations to Dr. West. He was featured in two journal covers this month: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A and Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts.

January 10, 2023

Many of our graduate students will be presenting at the 2023 ACS spring meeting in Indianapolis, IN, March 26-30. Chris, Felipe, Emily, Diego, Brianna, and Steven will be presenting oral talks, and Emily and Pooja will be presenting posters. We hope to see you there!

December 18, 2022

Cheers to Dr. West, Dr. Morales, and Dr. Tomlin who celebrated their incredible PhD accomplishments today by walking at Purdue's doctoral commencement ceremony.

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December 7, 2022

Dr. Alexander Laskin and team are highlighted in an article on EMSL (Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory) webpage, discussing our recent nanoplastic research that was published in Nature. Check out the article here.

November 29, 2022

Hats off to Dr. Morales on a successful PhD defense! You've done fantastic work throughout the years and have always held the lab together for us. You will be greatly missed, but we are excited to see the many great things that you accomplish in your future!

November 28, 2022

Way to go Dr. Tomlin on completing your defense! We are so proud of your hard work and contributions to our lab and know you will achieve great things in your future!

November 28, 2022

Steven has officially passed all five of his cumulative exams and will be moving on to his original proposal ('OP') candidacy exam next. Great work Steven!

November 16, 2022

Congratulations Dr. West on completing your defense! We commend your many years of hard work and dedication and we wish you great success in the next steps of your career.

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