News
12/18/24 Jessica was one of four recipients of the 2025 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences by the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Congrats Jessica! Read about it here.
12/11/24 Newly minted PhD candidate Luc passed his OPE! Congrats, Luc!
11/22/24 July gave an invited talk at the Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) Virtual Symposium! Congrats, July!
11/18/24 Two graduate students have joined the group! Welcome Jinxiao and Chris!
09/05/24 Briana and Luc were awarded 2023-2024 TA Award Honorable Mentions for their hard work! Congrats to the two of you!
07/30/24 Our work performing sequential cationic, anionic, and radical polymerizations utilizing a universal mediator was recently published in Chemical Science! Great work Will and Brandon! Go read the paper here.
07/17/24 Brandon was awarded the Lester C. and Joan M. Krogh Excellence Fellowship. Congrats Brandon!
06/07/24 Brandon was awarded the Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) Travel Award funded by the Paul G and Gerda Ann Gassman Chemistry Graduate Student Travel Fund for his talk in the morning session in the PMSE room. Congrats, Brandon!
06/03/24 Nora and Angela have joined the group as REU students. We're looking forward to doing some cool chemistry this summer!
04/18/24 July was invited to give a talk at the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate research symposium! Congratulations, July!
04/16/24 The groups newest work developing chemically recyclable poly(oxazolidinone) has been published in Macro Letters! Great work from Arpan and Allison! Read the paper here.
04/04/24 Briana was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Congratulations, Briana!
03/02/24 July was selected for the 2024 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color! Congratulations, July! Read about it here!
02/14/24 Luc and Rolando have been accepted into the Circularity Impact Program, and NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) at the University of Minnesota! Congratulations to both of you!
01/17/24 Libbi passed her OPE! Congratulations to the groups newest PhD Candidate!
12/18/23 Briana passed her OPE to become a PhD candidate! Congratulations, Briana!
12/01/23 Jessica was highlighted in the deparments hUMNs of Chemistry series! Learn more about Jessica and some other members of our department here.
11/15/23 The group welcomes our newest graduate students, Rolando, Luc and Stephanie! We're excited to see the cool work you all do!
10/12/23 The group's second paper titled "Switchable Organocatalysis from N-heterocyclic Carbene-Carbodiimide Adducts with Tunable Release Temperature" has been accepted to Angewandte Chemie! Congratulations July, Red, Briana, and Carolyn on the really cool chemistry! Read the paper here.
09/29/23 Jazmin joined the group as a post-doc working on developing non isocyanate-based polyurethanes! Welcome to the group!
09/01/23 Sam Foley joined the group as an undergraduate researcher! Welcome Sam!
09/01/23 Brandon was featured in the department's hUMNs of Chemistry! Read his story here
08/25/23 Allison was selected for the PMSE Centennial: Future Leaders of Polymeric Materal Science and Engineering Symposium! Congrats, Allison!
08/10/23 REU students Chiana, Elias, and Maren present the great work they did over the summer. We're all excited to see what you accomplish next!
08/03/23 The Lab celebrates it's 3rd birthday with a BBQ! They grow up so fast.
07/31/23 Allison was awarded the 2023-2024 Wayland E. Noland Followship in Organic Chemistry! Congrats Allison!
06/05/23 Maren, Chiana, and Elias have joined the lab as REU students. Welcome to the group!
05/24/23 Allison has been awarded the 2023 Richard D. Amelar and Arthur S. Lodge Fellowship for Outstanding Collaborative Research in Materials! Congratulations Allison
05/12/23 Jacob and Carolyn have graduated with their Bachelors Degrees! Congratulations to the both of you!
01/13/23 Will passed his Oral Preliminary Exam, becoming a PhD Candidate.
01/11/23 Brandon passed his Oral Preliminary Exam, becoming a PhD Candidate.
12/05/22 The group's first paper has been published in Macromolecules titled "Improved Characterization of Polyoxazolidinones by Incorporating Solubilizing Side Chains". Congratulations Allison, Melissa, and Arpan. We're all looking forward to seeing what's next! Read the paper here
11/18/22 First Year Graduate students Libbi and Briana have joined the lab! Welcome!
11/16/22 Undergraduate Carolyn represented ACS-UMN at Beyond Benign's Grant Program, presenting on work done by ACS-UMN that achieved a 2020-2021 Green Chemistry Award. Read more about it here!
10/18/22 Jessica and the lab have been awarded the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) for the NHC-CDI Research. Congrats! Read more here
07/22/22 Jessica is awarded the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. Congrats Jessica!
07/13/22 The Lamb Lab celebrates the 2-year anniversary of its founding!
07/12/22 The NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers has partnered with Clark Atlanta University as a part of the Partnership for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) NSF Grant.
07/12/22 A paper from Dr. Lamb's postdoc titled "Endohedrally Functionalized Metal–Organic Cage-Cross-Linked Polymer Gels as Modular Heterogeneous Catalysts" has been published in the Journal the of American Chemical Society.
06/06/22 Sydney Cole joins the lab as a CSP REU Undergrad. Welcome Sydney!
06/06/22 Jenna Scoggin joins the lab as a MRSEC REU Undergrad. Welcome Jenna!
04/29/22 Red is awarded his Master's Degree. He is now working as an environmental analyst at Minnesota's Public Health Laboratory. Congrats Red!
04/26/22 Our lab was selected to receive funding from the National Science Foundation to continue our work on Tunable masks for triggered N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis. We are very grateful to the NSF-CHE-CSDM-B for their support!
02/21/21 Jacob awarded a Travel Scholarship for the APS Physics Sustainable Polymer Short Course. Congratulations!
01/19/22 July passed her WPE and OPE to become a PhD Candidate. Congrats!
12/20/21 Allison passed her WPE and OPE to become the Lamb Group's first PhD Candidate. Congrats!
12/10/21 Jessica awarded the 2021 ACS PROF Leadership Development Award. Press Release.
11/10/21 First Year Graduate Students Melissa Barrera, Brandon Hosford and William Ramos join the group
11/01/21 Arpan Pal joins the group as a post doc
06/07/21 Congrats to Jacob and Carolyn on their Heisig summer fellowships
01/19/21 Jessica's perspective on N-heterocyclic carbene -carbodiimide betaine adducts is published in Chemical Science
11/25/20 Jessica's joint editorial with other junior faculty on DEI in organic chemistry is published in ACS Central Science
11/17/20 First year graduate student July Pham joins the group
09/28/20 Undergraduate students Carolyn Dewey and Jacob Votava join the group
07/15/20 Lab setup begins
07/15/20 Incoming graduate students Red Smith-Sweetser and Allison Wong join the group