News

  • New grants!

    We’re thankful to have to received two new grants in support of group research, including (1) support from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute to design mixtures of green solvents to replace halogenated solvents, …

  • Funding support for new Center

    The group is excited to be part of the new Center for Mineral and Mineral Oxide Removal from Biomass (CMORE)! CMORE will develop methods to convert biomass and municipal solid waste into demineralized and nitrogen-free …

  • Amy defends her PhD!

    Congratulations to Dr. Amy Qin for successfully defending her PhD entitled “Machine Learning Methods for Chemical Property Prediction, Sensing, and Design.” Amy will be starting a new role as a Senior Research Specialist at DOW …

  • Welcome to Ali!

    The group is thrilled to welcome another first-year student – Ali Altamimi! Ali is the first student from the Department of Chemistry to join the group – read more about him at the People page. …

  • Welcome to Changsu and Jung Min!

    The group is thrilled to welcome two new first-year students – Changsu Kim and Jung Min Lee! Changsu and Jung Min are both graduate students in Chemical and Biological Engineering – read more about them …

  • New article about the STRAP process

    Check out this new article about the Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP) process, featuring Van Lehn group members!

  • Two projects funded through Research Forward program!

    We are grateful that two new collaborative projects have been funded through the UW-Madison Research Forward competition, which helps seed collaborative research that could promote future center-level proposals. The two projects broadly relate to group …

  • New CUWP paper and poster prize!

    Congratulations to Pan on his new paper in Green Chemistry! In this paper, we use molecular-scale modeling techniques to generate a database of solubilities for common plastic resins in a wide range of organic solvents. …

  • Reid joins the Theoretical Chemistry Institute!

    Reid was recently approved as an affiliate of the Department of Chemistry at UW-Madison! This affiliation will permit closer collaboration with Chemistry faculty members and the recruitment of Chemistry students to further promote interdisciplinary research …

  • Carlos awarded NSF Fellowship!

    Many congratulations to Carlos Huang-Zhu, who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Bravo on the well-deserved award!

  • Welcome to Srija and Ugo!

    The group is thrilled to welcome two new first-year PhD students: Srija Chakraborty and Ugochukwu (Ugo) Ikegwu! Ugo is also co-advised with Prof. Victor Zavala. We’re thrilled to have them both – learn more about …

  • New papers + highlights in Nature and Science!

    Several new papers have come out from the group lately, including: Medium-chain lipid conjugation facilitates cell-permeability and bioactivity – a new paper in JACS to which ByungUk contributed Expanding plastics recycling technologies: Chemical aspects, technology …

  • Reid promoted to associate professor with tenure!

    Reid has received tenure and been named the Hunt-Hougen Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering! We are tremendously grateful to all group members, colleagues, collaborators, and mentors, past and present, who contributed to the …

  • Jonathan defends his PhD thesis!

    Dr. Jonathan Sheavly is the newest PhD recipient from the Van Lehn group!!! Jonathan defended a thesis entitled “Multiscale Modeling for the Design of Responsive Soft Materials.” Many congratulations to Jonathan – we wish him …

  • New paper by Lisa!

    Lisa’s new paper, entitled “On the integration of molecular dynamics, data science, and experiments for studying solvent effects on catalysis,” was just published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering! The paper reviews the group’s recent work …

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