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The lab is awarded a Purdue University AI Seed Grant to develop ways to navigate complex energy landscapes in the search for metastable low-dimensional chalcogenides. 

Johanna (Undergraduate Student) is admitted to an REU at Carnegie Melon. Congrats, Johanna! 

Caisong (Undergraduate Student) is admitted to the Rare Earth Research Conference Summer School at the University of Chicago. Congratulations, Caisong! 

Avinash is awarded a Purdue College of Science Travel Grant to present his work on MOFs at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston. Congratulations, Avinash! 

Avinash is awarded a PLU travel award to attend the ACS conference this summer and present his work on BaCu5 intermetallics and Ba4CuO electride phases. Congratulations Avinash! 

Aldan is awarded a '25 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship to study isolated electrons in quantum materials. Congrats, Aldan! 

Aldan is awarded an NSF-GRFP Honorable Mention. Congrats, Aldan! 

Keegan is awarded a departmental teaching award! Congrats, Keegan!

Justin begins teaching a new undergraduate materials chemistry course titled, "Chemistry of the Smartphone"

Welcome to first-year graduate students Keegan and Gabe! 

​EasyXAFS instrument installed! ​Let the XANES/XES/EXAFS begin!

All major instrumentation in the lab is now installed. 

Justin is awarded the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

ORAU: https://www.orau.org/partnerships/grant-programs/powe/index.html

Purdue Chemistry: https://www.chem.purdue.edu/media/news/2024/powe-award.html 

June 2024 Congratulations to Avinash who was admitted to the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron XRD & Scattering School

Huge congratulations to Stephen for receiving funding to continue his research over the summer!

Justin presents a MoChA modeling seminar on using XAFS to characterize battery materials

Lab has synthesized its 1st new ligand! Keep an eye out for some new results.

Justin presents at the TMS Spring Meeting in Orlando, FL

Welcome to undergraduate students Gauri and William!

First official group meeting as a group!

The Andrews Research Lab welcomes first year students Emmanuel Adeniyi (Inorganic), Noah Davis (Inorganic), Aldan Dye (Materials), Avinash Kiran (Materials), Kaixin Wu (Inorganic) and second year student Audrey Bonds (Inorganic) to the group! We are all excited to start working together on our projects!

Justin gives a seminar at the Purdue student ECS chapter MoChA seminar series and becomes a faculty advisor to the student chapter. 

The Andrews Research Lab welcomes undergraduates Jad (sophomore, biology major), Stephen (sophomore, chemistry major), and Joel (freshman, chemistry major)

The Andrews Research Lab joins the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University. We are so excited to get started!