• Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Montgomery for publishing a paper titled “Synthesis and Evaluation of Sterically Demanding Ruthenium Dithiolate Catalysts for Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis.” Check it out in Organometallics.
• Congratulations to Brendon McNicholasCarl and alumnus Dr. Carl Blumenfeld …

• The new Academic Year of 2017-2018 has Begun!…

• Congratulations to another new collaboration with the Houk and Liu groups titled “Origins of the Stereoretentive Mechanism of Olefin Metathesis with Ru-Dithiolate Catalysts.” Check it out in Angewandte Chemie.

• The Grubbs Group went camping in Yosemite!…

• Congratulations to Dr. Patrick and Tonia for publishing a review titled “Stereoretentive Olefin Metathesis: An Avenue to Kinetic Selectivity.” Check it out in Angewandte Chemie.
• Congratulations to Tonia for publishing a paper titled “A Highly Efficient Synthesis …

• Congratulations to Dr. Crystal Chu and Dr. Carl Blumenfeld for officially graduating from Caltech!!!
• The Grubbs group welcomed four SURF students this summer! We hope they will enjoy research in our group!

• Congratulations to Alice on publishing a paper titled “Manipulating the ABCs of Self-Assembly via Low-χ Block Polymer Design.” Check it out in PNAS.
• Congratulations to Crystal Chu for successfully defending her thesis and officially becoming Dr. Crystal!
• Congratulations to

• Our own postdoc, Allegra, won the “best poster award” in the Poly division at the ACS meeting! Her poster is titled “Side Chain Design in Brush Block Copolymer Photonic Crystals.”

• Alice was accepted to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in June!
• Congratulations to Zainab for successfully passing her candidacy exam!
• Professor Steven Diver from University at Buffalo was a visiting scholar during the month of March.

• Congratulations to TP, Alice, and Allegra on publishing a paper titled “Control of Grafting Density and Distribution in Graft Polymers by Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Copolymerization.” Check it out in JACS.
• Congratulations to Daryl and Michael for publishing a paper

• Congratulations to Tonia for publishing a paper titled “Fast-Initiating, Ruthenium-based Catalysts for Improved Activity in Highly E-Selective Cross Metathesis.” Check it out in JACS.
• Congratulations to former group members: Anton, Alexey, and Kerry for publishing a paper titled “A