Congratulations to Lauren Eckermann and Rileigh Casebolt on successfully defending their honors theses this spring!

Lauren Eckermann, Conor Flynn, and I recently published a paper on self-quenching of the symmetric stretching mode of carbon dioxide in the new ACS Journal, Earth and Space Chemistry. This work was the basis of Conor’s MS thesis as well as Lauren’s honors thesis.

In the fall of 2016, Professor Castle began a 3-year term as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts & Sciences. She will continue to work on research projects with undergraduates during this term.

The Castle group is up to 8 students this summer: Liam Kollar, Will Frost, Raj Alaparthi, Conor Flynn, Lauren Eckermann, Kaitlyn Whipple, Ellie Siegfried, and Kat Klein!

Professor Castle has been promoted and named the Russell-Childers Professor of Chemistry! What a great way to start her 2016-17 academic year sabbatical!

Ever wonder what ozone looks like when it’s adsorbed on silica gel at -40 oC? Purple!

Ellie Siegfried and Liam Kollar have been volunteering in our lab this semester. Because they were first-semester Bucknell students, they haven’t been able to spend much time in the lab yet, but hopefully they’ll be around for a while!