{"id":365,"date":"2020-05-20T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T16:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/?p=365"},"modified":"2020-07-27T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:06:58","slug":"spring-2020-lab-news-and-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/2020\/05\/20\/spring-2020-lab-news-and-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2020 Lab News and Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This semester had multiple events that we were fortunate enough to celebrate together before the lockdown and then #separatedtogether after. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, congratulations to Dr. Seyyedhadi Khatami and Stephanie Whitty on completing their degree programs! Stephanie has joined the U.S. Department of Defense as a chemist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Alex Goranov is now a Ph.D. candidate and on schedule to graduate in December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macey Cohen presented an oral presentation in November at the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting. Her presentation was titled, <em>Simulating Oxidative Transformation of Agriculturally Derived Lignin in the Soil and Its Impact on Phosphate Bioavailability<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-867x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-867x1024.jpeg 867w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-254x300.jpeg 254w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-768x907.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-1301x1536.jpeg 1301w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_1315-1735x2048.jpeg 1735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><figcaption>Macey Cohen (right) and Dr. Amanda Tadini (left) attending the ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting in November 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-672x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-1007x1536.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-1343x2048.jpg 1343w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/05\/IMG_9521-scaled.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Alicia Bryan, an undergraduate student in our group, has completed her B.S. degree in Chemistry. She will continue her studies at UNC &#8211; Chapel Hill as a Ph.D. student in Chemistry. Alicia also won the Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and the department&#8217;s Outstanding Graduate Senior in Chemistry award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1438\/2020\/07\/IMG_2624-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another undergraduate student, Scarlet Aguilar-Martinez, has received the Undergraduate Research &amp; Creativity Fellowship for Summer 2020. She was one of seven recipients to receive this institutional fellowship. This fellowship is funded by ODU&#8217;s Perry Honors College and positions her as lead PI of her research project with Dr. Chen and Dr. Hatcher functioning as her research mentors. Her project is titled <em>Fate of terrestrial organic matter in the ocean: transformation of lignin phenols via photooxidation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, our research group will be welcoming two new graduate students this upcoming year &#8211; Hannah Hamontree and Samantha Sullivan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to our lab members for such a productive year, best of luck to the ones moving on in their careers, and welcome to the ones joining us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester had multiple events that we were fortunate enough to celebrate together before the lockdown and then #separatedtogether after. Firstly, congratulations to Dr. Seyyedhadi Khatami and Stephanie Whitty on completing their degree programs! Stephanie has joined the U.S. Department of Defense as a chemist. Additionally, Alex Goranov is now a Ph.D. candidate and on&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/2020\/05\/20\/spring-2020-lab-news-and-updates\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/phatcher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}