Leslie Schoop, a solid-state chemist whose research has garnered a number of high-profile awards over the past few years, has been promoted to associate professor with tenure in the Department of Chemistry. Her new title was approved by the Princeton University Board of Trustees at their May meeting. 

Marissa Weichman has been awarded a grant for next-generation STEM leaders from the Department of Energy Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program to support her research in the new and growing field of polariton chemistry.

Early training in chemistry gave Lukasak an ease with fundamental lab work that carried all the way through to May 2022, when he successfully defended his dissertation as part of the Muir Lab. From his new perch in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, Lukasak looks back on his experience at Princeton Chemistry. 

Erik Sorensen will be the Department's new director of graduate studies as of July 1. Sorensen, the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry, succeeds Robert Knowles, who has held the post since 2019.