Dani Arias-Rotondo

@dr-dani-ar.bsky.social

she/ella 🇦🇷 || asst. prof. at Kalamazoo College || coordination chemistry + photophysics || cat & reptile lady, bookworm, slow runner

Some good news even though the damage has been done & many of us lost funding due to these illegal actions. ‘A federal judge ruled Friday that federal officials can’t cancel existing grants simply because they don’t align with new government priorities’

Trump officials can’t revoke grants due to new agency goals, judge rules

The ruling scores a win for a group of 21 attorneys general and three governors who sued over the Trump administration’s approach to grant terminations.

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Hey #chemsky just dropping it here that next year I go up for tenure! (I cannot believe it either lol remember the pinkyprincess college days? lol) So if your department is thinking about speakers next yr & you are interested on hearing on amazing chem education research keep me in mind please :)

It’s the #WorldCup so here’s my 2nd famous site from each country playing in the World Cup. It’s ARGENTINA 🇦🇷. This is an incredible cave painting from the Cueva de las Manos. It was made by using bone pipes to spray pigments over their hands. 🕰️ variously 7,300BC-700AD

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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6): "The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE: 1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed. ...

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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The DAR Lab started the year at the I-APS (Inter-American Photochemical Society) meeting in Florida. Caden, Alex, Max, and Will presented posters on their research, and I gave a talk. We got lots of great suggestions for future work, and have some collaborations cooking. A successful meeting!

Caden Frost ’26 and Alex Perry ’25 smile for the camera in front of their research poster, titled “Toward the synthesis of manganese (II) coordination complexes with tridentate imine ligands”. The contents of the poster are blurred.An action shot of Dani (Dr. DAR)’s talk: she stands in front of a screen where a slide with an overview of the DAR Lab’s work is projected. There are several crystal structures on the slide. Dani is talking and gesturing. Max Rhames ’25 and Dr. DAR smile for the camera in front of Max’s research poster, titled “A low spin manganese (II) complex with an emissive charge-transfer excited state”. The contents of the poster are blurred.Will Tocco ’26 and Dr. DAR smile for the camera in front of Will’s research poster, titled “Synthesis of photoactive complexes of manganese (II) with NHC