June 2024
- Catie wins the Outstanding Inorganic Student award, Ava wins the Shaun Murphy Memorial Scholarship, and Adelle wins the Outstanding BS Chemistry Graduate award. These are all very deserved recognitions!
May 2024
- Conner successfully defends his MS thesis. Excellent work – we’re proud of all your contributions!
- The group presents three posters at WWU Scholars Week. Nice job, teams CAN, SUP, and IOx!
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April 2024
- Catie and Adelle give oral presentations at the 2024 ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium. Great job!
January 2024
- The group welcomes FOUR new members: Ava, Emiliano, Jack, and Yazzie! We’re glad to have you!
November 2023
- WWU Chemistry makes a strong showing at the 2023 Murdock College Science Research Conference, taking home an award (Best Selfie). More importantly, Adelle and Catie did excellent jobs presenting their work!
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August 2023
- Catie, Adelle, and Dr Larsen travel to San Francisco to present at the Fall 2023 ACS National Meeting. They both did an excellent job presenting all their progress on CANs and iminooxazoline polymerizations!
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July 2023
- Hayden, Kate, Conner, Adelle, and Grace’s work on styrenic carbodiimides is accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters. Way to go, team CAN!
June 2023
- Evan, Kelsey, and Grace graduate from WWU with their BS degrees!
- Adelle wins a Morse Summer Research Fellowship and Catie wins a Seagen Summer Research Fellowship. Way to go, and we’re hugely grateful for the support.
- Alan Garza joins us for the summer from Lawrence University as an REU student. Glad to have you in the Pacific Northwest!
- Conner, Oliver, and Dr Larsen journey to Bozeman, MT to show off the group’s work at the 2023 Northwest Regional ACS Meeting. Conner and Oliver did a great job on their presentations!
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May 2023
- Adelle wins the 2023 Outstanding Analytical Student Award. Awesome job!
- The group presents their work at WWU’s annual Scholars Week. Nice job everyone!
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October 2022
- Amy and Tierra’s work, a collaboration with the Leger group in WWU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is published in PLoS ONE. Great work!
September 2022
- Catie and Grace officially join the group to further explore the polymerization of iminooxazolidines. Welcome!
July 2022
- Venecia, Evan, Reeth, and Alberto’s paper describing the fundamental aspects of the thermal guanidine metathesis reaction is accepted for publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Way to go, team TGM!
- Conner Klingler joins the group as a MS student after graduating with his BA in chemistry from Western. Welcome to the third floor!
June 2022
- Kate, Hayden, and Venecia graduate with their BS degrees. Congratulations everyone!
- Kate is named the 2022 Chemistry Department Outstanding Graduate. We’re all proud of you, and it’s an absolutely deserved recognition!
March 2022
- The group attends ACS Spring 2022 in beautiful San Diego. Dr Larsen gave a talk, and Kate and Hayden took home a Best Poster award for the PMSE division!
- Adelle Koenig joins the group. Welcome!
February 2022
- Dr Larsen is named a Cottrell Scholar – HUGE thank you to all group members, mentors, and coworkers past and present!
January 2022
- Kelsey Allis and Oliver Venablerose join the group. Welcome to CB 370!
November 2021
- Kate and Hayden presented at the 2021 Murdock College Science Research Conference in Vancouver, WA. Kate gave a great talk and Hayden took home a poster award – great job, team CAN!
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June 2021
- Amy and Reeth graduate from WWU with their B. S. degrees in chemistry and biochemistry, respectively. Amy is off to continue her polymer science studies as a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, and Reeth is going to pharmacy school at UW in the fall. Congratulations and we’re sad to see you go, but you’ll do great!
- Hayden receives the Barbara French Duzan Scholarship from the Chemistry Department and the Women in Science Scholarship from the College of Science and Engineering. Way to go!
May 2021
- Kate + Hayden and Reeth + Amy present posters at the 2021 Northwest Regional ACS Meeting, as well as WWU’s annual Scholars Week. Nice job all!
March 2021
- Venecia Ramirez and Evan Van Pelt join the lab. Glad to have you aboard!
February 2021
- We have received an RUI grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue our work on guanidine-based dynamic polymers. I (Dr Larsen) am grateful to all the team members who contributed to our progress in this area and am excited for our future endeavors – and we’re grateful for the funding!
December 2020
- Alberto graduates with his M.S. degree, the first from the Larsen Research Group!
November 2020
- Alberto defends his thesis, titled “Carbodiimides: Templates for Covalent Adaptable Networks and Post Polymerization Modification”. His work has set a foundation for the group for years to come, and we’re all extremely proud of you.
October 2020
- Amy presents a poster on her collaborative work with the Leger group at the 2020 SACNAS National Meeting – cool stuff!
July 2020
- Summer research (the socially-distanced, mask-wearing variety) is back in full swing, and with it Hayden Houck has joined the lab. Welcome!
June 2020
- Alberto publishes the first paper out of the Larsen Research Group. His paper details his discovery of a new chemical reaction and its use as the basis of a new class of covalent adaptable networks. Congratulations!!
- Connor, Tierra, and Gabe are the first members of the group to graduate from WWU – congratulations! We’re all proud of you and excited to see what comes next!
January 2020
- Kate McConnell and Amy Pollock join the lab – welcome!
October 2019
- We have received an Undergraduate New Investigator grant from the American Chemical Society PRF. We are grateful for the funding!
September 2019
- With the start of the new academic year, we have two new members – Reeth Pooni and Gabe Morris join the Larsen Research Group. Welcome!
August 2019
- Connor presents a poster detailing all of his great progress over the summer as part of the WWU REU symposium. The department VIPs were impressed!
June 2019
- Alberto receives a Graduate Research Award for funding from the WWU Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. We are grateful for the funding!
May 2019
- Alberto presents a poster on his research at the Graduate Student Symposium for Scholars Week at WWU. Nice job!
- Connor and Tierra present a poster on their research at the Undergraduate Scholars Showcase for Scholars Week at WWU. Way to go!
April 2019
- Our AMSEC Seed Grant in collaboration with Profs. Janelle Leger and Brad Johnson (Physics) is funded. We are grateful for the support!
- Connor is awarded a summer research fellowship from the Chemistry Department to fund his work in the group during the upcoming summer. Congrats Connor!
January 2019
- Connor, Tierra, and Eion join the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
October 2018
- Alberto joins the Larsen Research Group. Welcome!
September 2018
- Dr. Larsen starts at Western!