5/18/2022: Congratulations to Ankit, Tosin and Cameron for passing their first year doctoral candidacy exam with flying colors!
4/25/2022: Congrats to Prof. Goldsmith for being awarded the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry by the ACS COMP Division
4/24/2022: Congrats to Prof. Goldsmith for being featured as a Movers & Shakers in Catalysis by The Catalyst Review magazine.
3/10/2022: Congrats to Jacques Esterhuizen for winning the Kokes Award. Thank you North American Catalysis Society for supporting him!
2/12/2022: We had a fun lab event completing an escape room at Decode Ypsilanti. We managed to complete all the puzzles in record time!
2/10/2022: Goldsmith had great visit to the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University.
11/08/2021: Congratulations to Dylan Herrera for winning first place in the AIChE undergraduate poster competition for his section! Very well deserved.
10/15/2021: Welcome Ankit, Cameron, and Tosin officially to the group! A new group photo to celebrate the occasion.
9/24/2021: Jacques Esterhuizen was awarded the annual Research Excellence Award in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Congratulations and well-deserved!
8/16/2021: Goldsmith is Co-PI on a recently funded
NSF DMREF Grant. The Goldsmith Lab is excited to collaborate with the Labs of Suljo Linic, Eranda Nikolla, and Nirala Singh.
6/10/2021: Congratulations to Dr. Zixuan Wang for successfully passing her thesis defense!
It has been great to have you in our lab and co-advised with the Singh Lab. We are excited to watch your future career in Science and Technology Policy.
5/1/2021: Jacob Florian and Eric Musa have both graduated with their BS in Chemical Engineering.
Congratulations! It has been wonderful having you both in the lab over the past few years.
4/28/2021: Jonathan Lee will be doing a summer research internship at MIT Materials Research Lab. We wish you a great time there!
3/31/2021: Congratulations to Jacob Florian for being a
2021 Hertz Foundation Fellowship Finalist, as well as all the other extraordinary applicants.
3/23/2021: We are very happy that Jacob Florian was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. We look forward to following your future research in graduate school!
3/19/2021: Congrats to Jacob for accepting the Churchill Scholarship.
He is the 1st person in ChE Department at Michigan to be selected since 1979 and the 15th person to be awarded at UofM since its inception.
3/12/2021: Jacob Florian was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Undergraduate Award in Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan for demonstrated academic achievement, exemplary character, and leadership in class and activities.
He was also awarded the George M. Landes Prize for Technical Communication for excellence and creativity in both technical and presentation skills. Congratulations!
2/20/2021: We are excited to participate on this team project titled
"CO2 to Fuels Through Chemistry and Technology" that was generously funded by the Graham Sustainability Institute.
2/6/2021: We went cross-country skiing as a group and had a great (socially distanced) time!
11/24/2020:
Congrats to Eric Musa, who was awarded first place in the AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Competition in the CRE group.
His poster title was: Optimized Machine Learning Potential Reconstruction for Enhanced Catalysis Research.
10/26/2020: Jacques was awarded a Travel Grant from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division to help present his research at the 2020 AIChE National Conference!
10/26/2020: Prof. Goldsmith was awarded an ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Grant to use atomistic modeling and data science tools to study atomically dispersed metal ions on amorphous materials for olefin conversion.
10/2/2020: Zixuan Wang was awarded a 2020 Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award to the AIChE National Conference. Congratulations!
9/9/2020: Prof. Goldsmith was selected as an AIChE 35 under 35 Awardee in the category of Energy and Environment!
7/16/2020: Jacques Esterhuizen was awarded the J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship will support his research on interpretable machine learning for catalysis applications for 1 year. Congrats!
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