Today our lab members Ryan Kosko, Hafsa Irfan and Dr. Afsar Ali participated in the Western New York Inorganic Symposium 2024 and they did a great job! Special mention to Ryan, who was awarded for his awesome presentation 🎉🎉🎉🎉.

Congratulations to our graduate student Karishma Ramesh for being awarded with the Sherman-Clarke Fellowship 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Way to go, Karishma!

Today, we had the pleasure to see Dr. Alison Salamatian's Ph.D thesis defense and, as usual, she did wonderful!. Over the years, she has shown great discipline, ideas and mentor skills and we know she'll thrive in every of her future projects. Way to go Dr. Salamatian! 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🎊

The same bunch spotted at a group lunch hosted by Kara. A great start to the summer! ☀️🌻

A great bunch of bioinorganic chemists spotted on a beautiful day in Rochester ☀️😎 #newgroupphoto

Outside academic related matters, Ji Won would leave small and sweet treats on a person’s desk if she saw they were tired/upset and that is a testament to her kind personality. Congratulations again, Dr. Han! You will be missed, we hope you excel in all matters ahead! 🎉🙌

A mentor and a friend to many in the lab. She gave valuable advice and insights to everyone project’s and that is one of the many testaments of her intellectual merits—

We have freshly minted, Dr. Ji Won Han, in the house!! Today we had the honor of attending Dr. Han’s thesis defense where she shared a portion of the many challenging projects she took on and excelled like it’s no big deal 💅 Ji Won has been an excellent researcher—

A great day today on the Graduate Research Symposium! Our students Alison Salamatian and Hafsa Irfan presented very nice posters on their great research and Hafsa won a recognition ⭐⭐⭐! Way to go girls 👏🏽

Congratulations to Hafsa Irfan for winning the best poster award in Natural Sciences division at the annual AS&E Graduate Symposium! We are proud and excited to see your cool research come into fruition! 🏆🥇

We are THRILLED to welcome Karishma and Alana to the Bren lab as our first years PhD students aka babies!! Can’t wait to see the exciting science they bring to the lab 🐥🧪🥼

Great participation of Bren Lab members Alison Salamatian and María Fernanda Lizarazo (@mflizarazor) in the Graduate Research Day that took place today!

We had a great fall outing last weekend with some of our members and rotating students ☺️. Very colorful pictures and a great lunch🌈

Check out the latest publication from our lab: a study made by our grad student Alison Salamatian and alumni @Jose_LAlvarez about an electrocatalytic pH study on Hydrogen Evolution Reaction using CoMP11-Ac. Way to go guys!!! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…