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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Got some exciting **official** news yesterday!!! As of July 1st, I’ll be a TENURED faculty member @URochesterChem !! So grateful for the students, postdocs, staff, colleagues, and mentors who made this dream a reality!! #ItTakesAVillage
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Look’s like our synthesis was reproducible!! Tad (left) and Maddie (right) both at ~1 month. Kids are just so cool 😎
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Tenure package submitted!!!! So grateful for the amazing team of scientists who have helped me to build this amazing body of science. And to my family and husband who distracted the 3YO long enough for me to get it done!!!! #andnowwewait
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
1 year
Today we celebrated Ellen being awarded the Marshall Gates Jr. Associate Professor of Chemistry!! We are so proud of her and are lucky to have her as our PI! She is the best 🤩🥳🤑
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 months
Thrilled to report that Ellen will be promoted to FULL professor as of July 1st! Grateful to Matson Lab members past a present for the amazing science over the past decade - the best is yet to come! 🥳🥳🥳 (but seriously… stay tuned for some awesome stuff… 😂)
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Gentle reminder to those who aren't feeling so awesome about the GRFP results... I was rejected for the GRFP twice as a graduate student; don't let the outcome of this competition define your career trajectory - you will still do great science!!!
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The Matson Lab
1 year
I think I’ve officially made it #ChemMom
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
The Matson Lab is looking for a postdoc to join our research team on a DOE-funded project focused on understanding the reactivity of actinides at the surface of redox-active metal oxides! For those interested, please contact Ellen (CV, cover letter, references)!! @ChemJobber
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Heading with my favorite travel buddy to the Inorganic Gordon Conference!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
The news is out!!! So excited to have the opportunity to study hydrogenation reactions at metal oxide surfaces with @James_McKone @Vero_Augustyn @mpourmpakis_lab and Ethan Crumlin!! Thanks @doescience for the support!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
The Matson Lab is looking for TWO postdoctoral researchers to join our team! We’re hiring synthetic inorganic chemists for both our actinide project (bonus points if you have experience in photochemical analysis) and our project focused on PCET at POM surfaces!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
1 year
Our very own actinide rockstar, Leyla Valerio, was named a recipient of the NSF GRFP!!! We are so proud of her 🥳🤩🥳🤩
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
First year grad students killing it in lab!!!!!
@_charipeter
Chari Peter
2 years
A true love story 💚
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Do you dream about f-elements and metal oxide clusters???? Come work in the @MatsonLab on some sick Heavy Element chemistry!!! We have beautiful space and beautiful people to add to the promise of an exceptionally cool science agenda.... DM or email Ellen with interest!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Great night!!!! Thanks Kavli Foundation and ACS! Congrats to @gagliardi8 - can’t wait for your talk tomorrow!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
All the feels when your first, single PI, BIG-KID grant notice of award comes in on the same day the senate confirms Judge Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court!!!! Thanks @NSF for funding our science on oxygen-atom vacancy formation in polyoxovanadates!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
First flight back in action and ⁦ @Delta ⁩ upgraded me to first!!! While I am missing the littles already, I am excited for chemistry in Cancun!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
First Matson Group PhD!!!!! #theygrowupsofast
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Merry Christmas from the Matson-Hicks duo!!! These sweet peas are my very best syntheses!
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The Matson Lab
3 years
Celebrating Alex’s JACS paper!!!! Coming soon!!!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Kid #1 coming in to work with mom!!! Look out, science - your world is about to be rocked!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
Nothing like a having a JACS article accepted to end the week :) :) :)
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
Incredibly humbled to be listed amongst this amazing class of scientists!!! Get ready for the Matson Lab, actinides!!!!! #stoked
@ENERGY
U.S. Department of Energy
5 years
👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 ANNOUNCED TODAY: 73 #NationalLab and university scientists receive funding as part of a @DOEScience program that supports exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many do their most formative work. ⤵️
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The Matson Lab
4 years
Feeling super grateful for this recognition, and to be celebrated with some of my favorite chemists!! Especially proud of the the students that got us to this point!!! ⁦ @AlisonNarayanUM ⁩ ⁦ @KMirica @organomimetic
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
I love when good things happen to my favorite people!! Congrats to ⁦ @jillianldempsey ⁩ and ⁦ @DocAJMM ⁩ and team!!! 🥰🤓🥳🤩 Department of Energy Announces $100 Million for Artificial Photosynthesis Research | Department of Energy
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
So excited to report that my amazing colleague, Mike Neidig (not on twitter 😕) has been promoted to Full Professor! I'm so grateful to have such an accomplished colleague in inorganic chemistry @UofR !!! #prostaus #m össabuer4life
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Five months of snuggles with this rainbow 🥰🥰🥰 feeling all the feels this holiday season
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The Matson Lab
5 years
Celebrating in style being named a 2020 Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee!!! Thanks to the EABs of @thiemechemistry for recognizing our work! #crosscoupling #organicchemistwannabe #toddlersmilesinstyle
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Congrats to DR. FERTIG!!!!! What an amazing defense, culminating a truly outstanding PhD! We are so proud of you and will miss you greatly!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
1 year
Congrats to DOCTOR @schreisenberg !!! We are so proud of your accomplishments and will miss you terribly!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Got the NOA today for some RFB funding from @NSF CBET!!! Grateful for the opportunity to continue this amazing project with some great friends/collaborators!!! Congrats @James_McKone @cooklab_ub !!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
@Chemjobber We are looking for a postdoc with expertise either in electrocatalysis or MOF synthesis (in my perfect world, understands both!!!!). Interested parties should contact @ellenmmatson for more info!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Nothing quite like seeing the latest cluster #PCET paper online while celebrating group accomplishments at Beer Market on a Friday afternoon!!! Congrats to @schreisenberg and Alex (not on twitter) on this exceptional piece of science!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Sonic and tails wishing you all the happiest of halloweens!!!!
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The Matson Lab
4 years
Wasn't able to screen-grab any action shots today, but I do want to take the time to celebrate Dr. Brittney Petel - PhD #2 from the Matson Lab!! So proud of the scientist that she is and the body of work she has built over the past five years... thank you for everything BP!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
Feeling proud - submitted the group's **20th manuscript** this morning!!!! So lucky to get to work with such a productive group of rockstars!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Looking for some good weekend reading? Check out Alex's JACS paper on proton-coupled electron transfer in POV-alkoxide clusters!!! So proud of all the hard work that Alex put in to making this project a reality!!!
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The Matson Lab
3 years
Madeline’s first seminar! So glad she got to hear about @alprieto3 ’s amazing science (she’s really overwhelmed by the outstanding nanoparticle synthesis being presented… she needed to close her eyes to take it all in)
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Today's the day!!! I'm so proud to be in this line-up of kick-butt women doing amazing things in inorganic chemistry! Tune in at 1 PM EST to see some of our outstanding results! @icjennikins @AmelieNicolay #gidw2020 #WomenInSTEM
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The Matson Lab
4 years
First day of COVID-19 Phase I shift work! Getting the lab back up and into shape! #proudboss #chemistrywarriors #safety
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Well that's pretty badass - an all female award!!!! Congrats to these fantastic scientists; a well deserved recognition for their ground-breaking discovery of genome editing!!!!
@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
4 years
BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Congratulations to @Mamta_Dagar_ for being named a recipient of a @URochesterChem 2022-2023 Sherman-Clarke Fellowship!!! You are amazing in and out of lab and we are so proud of you!
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The Matson Lab
1 year
Check out our Accounts of Chemical Research article describing our work on Proton Coupled Electron Transfer at Polyoxovanadate-alkoxide surfaces! Great work from Katie (twitterless) and ⁦⁦ @schreisenberg ⁩!!! ⁩
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
Just in time for the holidays..... Site-Selective Halogenation of Polyoxovanadate Clusters: Atomically Precise Models for Electronic Effects of Anion Doping in VO2 | Journal of the American Chemical Society
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 months
Smooching the babe as I wrap up the half marathon!!! Grateful for all of the cheers 🥰🥳👸🏻
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
Excited to have our research recognized with this honor!!! Real gratitude goes to my kickass graduate students for making our cluster dreams a reality! Congrats to all of the other fabulous 2019 Sloan Fellows, including @jsandersonlab @NarayanLab @USCMarinescu @McDowell_Lab !!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
FINALLY have a new group photo! Feeling extra thankful to get to work with this crew of truly incredible individuals!! Looking forward to see what 2022 brings to our team!! @schreisenberg @_charipeter @GarwickR @cooneycool @Mamta_Dagar_ @valerio_leyla @Lauren_Mariiee3 @RobMLewis1
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
1 year
Tired, but thrilled to be home and reunited with these beans 🥳🥳🥳🥳
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The Matson Lab
1 year
Congrats!!!! So proud of you both and feeling lucky to have had the chance to work with you! @schreisenberg
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
The Matson Lab welcomes our TWO new postdocs Zhou ( @zlu941 ) and Kamaless ( @KamalessPatra )!! Can't wait to see what exciting things you discover!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
1 month
Check out our entry into actinide-substituted polyoxomolybdate clusters with this awesome @ChemicalScience article led by superstar postdoc Dom!!! Super excited about this project and all the possibilities - stay tuned for more work coming soon!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
8 months
Made it to my goal of running 1000 miles in 2023!!! Celebrating with the one of the things that has made it challenging to do this in the past seven years 🥵🥰🥵🥰
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The Matson Lab
1 year
Celebrating #internationalwomensday by reflecting on having the opportunity to work with such an amazing group of women!!! ⁦ @valerio_leyla ⁩ ⁦ @cooneycool ⁩ ⁦ @Mamta_Dagar_ ⁩ ⁦ @_charipeter ⁩ (and Katie and Becca not on twitter) 👩🏼‍🔬👩‍💻👩🏼‍🔬👩‍💻👩🏼‍🔬👩‍💻
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The Matson Lab
2 years
When you dress like your advisor for group meeting #twins #womeninstem
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Wooooot!!!!! Something to celebrate in 2020! Congrats to @mevandis on being selected as a recipient of the ACS YCC Leadership Development Award!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 @ycc_acs
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The Matson Lab
4 years
A moment of levity in an otherwise darker day after shutting down the lab - reminding myself that when he’s 18 I’ll look back on #COVID19 and be grateful for the extra moments we got to spend together 🥰🤩😍🥳🤗 #notgettinganyworkdone #hissmilemakesupforit
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
Last seminar of my tenure tour!!!! Definitely went out with a bang 🥰🥰🥰 I can say with confidence that none of my other visits included a welcome sign on my bedroom door 😂😂
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
10 months
Quick jog to check out the Eiffel Tower this AM in Paris! No better way to beat the jet lag then talk prep and a slow run!! Ready for a day of exploring and POMs!
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The Matson Lab
4 years
Epic choice for Head of the Department!!!
@ChemistryUIUC
Chemistry at Illinois
4 years
Professor Cathy Murphy is officially the Head of the Department of Chemistry. She is the first woman to lead Chemistry at Illinois. Read more about her unique perspective:
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
7 months
The Matson Lab welcomes THREE new students!!!!! Claire ( @claire_dopp ), Hannah, and Baela (from left to right), we are so excited to get to work with you!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Congrats to ⁦ @CRKchem ⁩ on her ⁦ @PackardFdn ⁩ award!!!!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
MATSON group outing at the #LilacFestival Beer Expo! We tried them all!!!!!!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Stoked to see this paper online! Check out our work on probing the mechanism of self assembly of polyoxovanadate-alkoxide clusters! Congrats to Rachel and Robert on an excellent piece of science!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Ending the year with a few extra Christmas snuggles with this one… 🥰😍🥰😍
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
I worked for two untenured female faculty members and I am a better chemist and person for it. My mentor in my independent career is a woman; her feedback on papers/grants and advice has been crucial to my growth as a scientist. Garbage is right.
@CarolynBertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi
4 years
Garbage alert: this “big authorship data” analysis stumbles on what we already know about gender bias in academia, then stupidly advises that the key to women’s success is to avoid female mentors and instead align with privileged males. Who reviewed this?
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The Matson Lab
5 years
Posted our most recent publications on the board today!!! So impressed by my incredibly productive group of students!! 🤗🤗 #proudboss
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The Matson Lab
1 year
Congratulations to ⁦ @Mamta_Dagar_ ⁩ on passing your oral exam! On to candidacy!!!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Congrats to the 2020 DOE Young Investigators!! So excited for you all! EARLY CAREER Early Career Resear... | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC) ⁦ @JustinSambur ⁩ ⁦ @CotruvoLab ⁩ ⁦ @BridwellRabbLab ⁩ ⁦ @DKBediako
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
5 years
So appreciative for this recognition and to be inducted into this amazing group of teacher-scholars! Congrats to my cohort, especially @KMirica and Justin Wilson!!!!
@RCSA1
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
5 years
RCSA Announces 2019 Cottrell Scholars Research Corporation for Science Advancement announces its 2019 Cottrell Scholar Awards. These Awards provide $100,000 to each recipient identified as a leader in integrating science teaching and research at a top...
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The Matson Lab
4 years
A reason to celebrate in the COVID-era.... this kid turns THREE years old today!!! Happy birthday to this wild spirit!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Congrats to @Lauren_Mariiee3 for winning best poster at the Rochester Section Collegiate Research Symposium! You are AMAZING!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Check out these rockstars! Congrats to @_charipeter and @cooneycool for their excellence in teaching (Walters Teaching Award)! Congrats also to @schreisenberg on being named a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student Award!!!! You all are AMAZING!!! 🥳🤩🤯🥳🤩🤯
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Congrats to the 2023 ACS Award Winners!!! I’m especially excited about the recognition of the excellent science from @NymanMay and @RJGilliard !! So well-deserved 🥳🤩🤓🥳🤩🤓
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Kid #1 leant me his Thomas Blankie for my trip to Italy! See you in 10 hours!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
8 months
Check out the latest from the Matson Lab!! In this study, postdoc extraordinaire @KamalessPatra demonstrates the use of a thiomolybdate cluster as a redox active ligand for low-valent uranium!!! Super excited about these new directions! 🤩🥳🤩🥳
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
Still got it!!!!! Welcome to the @MatsonLab little #uraniumtetrabenzyl !! Special assist to @schreisenberg for helping his old-lady boss acquire an NMR!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
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Wishing the happiest of birthdays to one my favorite friends! You inspire so many with your awesome science and general being!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
3 years
It's the end of an era!!! Rachel's Last (😭😭😭) paper is published in @InorgChem !! Check out our contribution to this special issue on Small Molecule Activation; O2 activation with a calix-functionalized POV-alkoxide cluster!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
New snapshot of the Matson Lab!!! So grateful to work with such an amazing group of scientists and individuals! @Mamta_Dagar_ @RobMLewis1 @cooneycool @_charipeter @schreisenberg @erinstocky
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
10 months
On our way to our Paris adventure!!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
8 months
Good colleagues can be hard to come by (not @URochesterChem , though!); it makes it even more special when a great colleague is also a best friend 🥳🥰🤩🤓 Wishing the happiest birthdays to the "ying" to my "yang" @KnowlesGroupUR (PS we look the same at the bar and graduation...)
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Home with these beautiful beans after a thrilling week at the #InorganicGRC2022 !! Thanks @alprieto3 for a fantastic meeting - I’m energized (or will be after some rest) and ready to do kick butt cluster science with @MatsonLab !!!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Great visit to @URochesterChem from the one and only @velianlab on a perfect spring day in Rochester! Thank you for sharing your beautiful science with our department! @BRBchemistry @KnowlesGroupUR and @theNASciences inductee Bill Jones!!!
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
4 years
At least one of us has our act together 😂😂😂😂Looking forward to speaking at next Monday's GIDW meeting with some of my favorite scientists! @TDTilleyGroup @icjennikins @AmelieNicolay
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The Matson Lab
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Six years ago this one made me a mom. Today my group and I celebrate his existence with slime outreach! He’s taught me love and patience that I didn’t know was possible ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Stoked to be visiting @UWChemistry today!! Look out Seattle - time away from my infant daughter means a fully caffeinated Ellen is coming your way!!! #WomenInSTEM #ChemMom
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
For those of you who didn't attend the Fall 2022 ACS Meeting (or just want to relive the magic), @gagliardi8 and my @KavliFoundation lectures are online!!! Thank you again @AcsNational and @KavliFoundation for this amazing opportunity!
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The Matson Lab
4 years
Can’t synthesize clusters, so I’m exercising my talent through the generation of a pretty sick “choo choo” track!!! Please notice the photogenic toddler - we’ve been practicing our “cheese” face 😂😂😂😂
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The Matson Lab
3 years
Best way to start a holiday weekend??? Accepted paper!!! Stay tuned….
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Hanging out with #POMpeople at #ICCC2022 !!! Loving Italian sunshine and Prosecco!
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The Matson Lab
2 years
Taking a break on this beautiful Tuesday to enjoy Food Trucks on the Quad!! The MATSON group is BIG this summer - and still missing ⁦ @_charipeter ⁩ ⁦ @GarwickR ⁩!!! ⁦ @schreisenberg ⁩ ⁦ @cooneycool ⁩ ⁦ @Mamta_Dagar_ ⁩ ⁦ @erinstocky ⁩ ⁦ @RobMLewis1
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@MatsonLab
The Matson Lab
2 years
Just arrived in Texas!!! Loving spending time with @AlisonFout over margaritas and a taco salad… plus all the salsa!!! Looking forward to my visit to @TAMUChemistry tomorrow!
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@matsonlab uniform for Day #2 of #ACSFall2022 !!!
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