Riley and @clh731.bsky.social contributed to our latest collaborative paper led by Prof. Azam Noori from Merrimack College titled "Phytotoxicity and phytoremediation potential of Lemna minor exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid" published in Frontiers of Plant Sciences! #PFAS #phytoremediation

New review article out in Chemical Society Reviews @roysocchem.bsky.social featuring @clh731.bsky.social + many co-authors providing a historical perspective on Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy! #SERS @umnchemistry.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved significantly over fifty years into a powerful analytical technique. This review aims to achieve five main goals. (1) Providing a comprehensive h...

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I live most of my life in circumstances where not all scientists, engineers, and inventors are assumed to be men. Then, every once in a while, I get hit by something like this. I know that it is a silly quiz on a cruise ship, but it made my stomach drop. #RepresentationMatters #WomeninSTEM #DoBetter

Bucket list-kind-of-morning as we enter the Panama Canal #FamilyTravel #EngineeringMarvel #LuckyMe

My favorite #ChemistryDepartment has joined Bluesky - you should all follow @umnchemistry.bsky.social to hear about our #CuttingEdgeScience and the people who do and teach it #UMNProud

Couldn't be prouder to see University of Minnesota with HALF of the 2025 Marion Milligan Mason Awardees - congratulations to Profs. Jessica Lamb (@ewerpointe.bsky.social) and Michelle Calabrese on this well-deserved recognition! #UMNProud

New drone photos of our University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry Teaching Building in progress, side-by-side with the original renderings. It is coming along and looking beautiful (even with the #IcyMississippi in the foreground). #UMNProud #Fall2025

The @roysocchem.bsky.social have published a special collection honoring Prof George Whiteshide for his 85th birthday and celebrating the profound impact on chemistry that he's had through his research, leadership and mentorship of generations of exceptional scientists! rsc.li/whitesides

I love working at UMN and living in the Twin Cities. The #QualityOfLife is high, and the #CherryOnTop for this academic is that the airport and the number of direct flights are amazing - fully supported by a recent study published in Forbes, ranking #MSP as the best mega airport in the US

Do you want the molecular-level details about why the Aurora Borealis displays beautiful colors in the sky? One of my collaborators, Bob Hamers, took some gorgeous photos and the time to explain: sustainable-nano.com/2024/12/06/c...

Colors of the Aurora Borealis: Nature’s Spectroscopic Spectacle

Millions of people across the US recently got their first view of the Aurora Borealis, or “Northern Lights”, as the night sky turned a rainbow of unusual colors. When I mentioned the aurora in my l…

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So excited to welcome a new graduate student to the @hayneschemlab.bsky.social - looking forward to collaborating on some exciting chemistry in the coming years! #UMNProud

Haynes Group@hayneschemlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey #chemsky, meet our new first year, Yu (Cheryl) Chen, who has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Guangdong University and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University! Her thesis work will focus on developing silica nanoparticles for agriculture! #nanosky

Any progress bringing the @amerchemsociety.bsky.social journal feeds over here?

My research group is now on Bluesky, too - follow @hayneschemlab.bsky.social for exciting research updates in #Nanomaterials, #AnalyticalChemistry, #ScienceOutreach, #ScienceCommunication, and more. #UMNProud!

Haynes Group@hayneschemlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

S/o to our first follower (maybe our most important one)! We are excited to be on Bluesky to share our science and outreach with the #chemsky and #nanosky communities! Follow for more updates!

On Thanksgiving weekend in the US, I'm feeling grateful for this amazing crew of chemists. #UMNProud #ItTakesATeam

What a cool inclusion-focused project - these PNNL scientists are developing new technical terms for American Sign Language to facilitate the work of deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists

LabSigns Project Brings New Scientific Terms to American Sign Language

LabSigns is a new effort spearheaded by a Deaf scientist and a hearing scientist to create American Sign Language signs for the laboratory.

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Check out this thoughtful reflection on summer undergraduate research and the confluence of art and science! There’s a bonus animation of the researcher's summer project at the end of the blog post. #SciArt #SciCom #UndergradExcellence #UMNProud

Carbon Dots and Duckweed: An Artistic Journey

When I received my acceptance to the CSN Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program last spring, I was so excited for the opportunity to immerse myself in a whole new field of chemistr…

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I always love a #ScienceCommunication challenge - one of the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry graduate students, Sidharth Panda, won the College of Science & Engineering's 3-minute thesis competition: #chemsky #UMNProud

Research Spotlight: Sidharth Panda

YouTube video by College of Science and Engineering, UMN

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Making the move - hello #chemsky and #nanosky!