november 2023
we had a packed AIChE meeting! rachel, sam, jun, cole, and sonia all gave talks in Orlando. junn the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Student Award. michele gave an invited talk in the AIChE Journal Futures session. plus we caught up with old friends!
michele served on a panel for princeton's SWE high school engineering outreach program. it was great talking with the next generation of womengineers!
michele gave a seminar ohio state, catching up with fellow Jones group alum Prof. Brunelli!
october 2023
cole, jun, and hayat's viewpoint on the complexity of mass transfer and kinetics in zeolites was published in ACS Catalysis. nice work team!
michele was selected as AIChE 35 under 35, recognizing "young individuals who will pave the way for future generations, serving as role models and innovators."
michele gave a seminar to the ChE department at UCSB, which is where she spent a summer as an REU. it was great being back!
rachel received the Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering from the graduate school, which is the highest honorific fellowship bestowed to engineering students. congrats rachel!
jun won the best presentation at the CBE graduate student symposium. yay jun!
september 2023
michele trained up to Barnard College to give a talk to seniors in chemistry as a part of their thesis course.
jun received the SEAS' Award for Excellence! congrats jun on the amazing and well-deserved achievement.
michele gave an invited talk at Cell Press' sponsored LabLinks at Drexel University to discuss future needs and perspectives of hydroxide-derived nanostructures and emerging catalytic platforms.
michele and prof. emily davidson kicked off their second annual NSFGRFP workshop series.
august 2023
hayat and michael successfully defended their FPOs in CBE and CHM, respectively. we will miss them both!!!
sam's paper was published in AIChE Journal's Future issue and was selected to be highlighted at the upcoming AIChE meeting in Orlando.
the iglesia group at UC Berkeley held a "Symposium on Research Frontiers in Surface Catalysis" in Santa Rosa, CA. michele was a lead organizer and discussion chair.
michele organized and presented in a session for chris jones as the ENFL distinguished research award.
michele was appointed to the early career board for the journal of catalysis.
june 2023
michele gave an invited talk at Bristol Myers Squibb for their Process Development Sustainability Symposium.
jun's work on catalytic plastic upcycling was published in Applied Catalysis B.
the group ventured to Providence for NAM28! sam, rachel, jun, cole, sonia, and michele gave oral or poster presentations. sam and jun were Kokes award winners! michele was an invited member to the 60-year Anniversary of the Journal of Catalysis Symposium.
may 2023
future senior thesis student darius ganza CBE '24 was featured in an article about his work as a summer ACEE researcher in the lab: bit.ly/43tlXeP
bella, hojoon, and stanley all successfully defended their senior thesis work and graduated! hojoon was also recognized with a senior thesis award for his work.
march 2023
hayat's paper in Crystal Growth and Design's special issue on Zeolite Crystal Engineering was published!
james was awarded the NSFGRFP. congrats, james!!
michele served on a panel for Women's Empowerment Week focusing on networking and creating a community.
february 2023
princeton women in CBE officially launched its webpage: https://cbewomen.princeton.edu/!
hayat's MSDE paper was selected for the 2021 Outstanding Early Career Paper Award: bit.ly/3Z3CkNn. congrats hayat!
michele was featured in Angewandte Chemie for publishing her first paper as a corresponding author: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202301038
michele served on a panel entitled "The Role of Mentorship in Shaping your Professional and Personal Development as you Navigate your Career in AIChE CRE," which kicked off the D&I committee's initial mentorship program.
january 2023
we were joined by fellow nittany lion joshua miller, who is also an NSFGRFP fellow. welcome joshua!
former senior thesis student clare martin and michael co-authored a paper accepted into Angewandte Chemie. congrats clare and michael!
rachel led a team of a team of undergrad and high school (!!) researchers on a paper that was accepted at Materials Advances.
december 2022
rachel, hayat, jun, sam, and cole all presented posters at NorthEast Corridor Zeolite Association annual meeting held in Villanova, PA. michele gave an invited presentation and sam won the student poster award!
as DECI chair, michele facilitated the launch of a new "women in CBE" initiative with PU postdoc Lauren Taylor. the kickoff was a reading week bagel breakfast.
november 2022
rachel, sam, stanley, and michele travelled to Phoenix for AIChE for presentations. rachel and sam won the Women in Chemical Engineering and Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Student Awards, respectively. stanley won first place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences division at the undergraduate poster session. michele chaired a microporous and mesoporous session and gave an invited talk in the young CRE investigator award session. congrats all around!
rachel's paper in ACS Catalysis was published!
october 2022
cole, jun, and summer researcher Darius presented their work at the ACEE 11th Annual Meeting.
our annual lab BBQ was held on a brisk Saturday afternoon. warm apple cider all around!
michele travelled to NYC to give a seminar at City College of New York.
september 2022
rachel was recognized by the SEAS' Award for Excellence! congrats rachel!!
michele and prof. davidson co-organized an NSFGRFP workshop for CBE students interested in applying.
new senior thesis student hojoon kim joined, while bella and stanley stayed in the group from their junior independent work. welcome hojoon and welcome back stanley and bella!
sam's work was used as a basis for a 2022 Water Grand Challenge Award from the High Meadows Environmental Institute.
august 2022
michele gave an invited talk at Pittsburgh/Cleveland Catalysis Society Annual Symposium in State College, PA and Fall ACS in Chicago.
july 2022
rachel and michele were selected as participants in an NSF/DOE workshop on “Rigor & Reproducibility in Thermal Heterogeneous Catalysis” Workshop, where Rachel was one of only 5 students.
michele gave an invited lecture entitled "Talking about Thiele" at the Catalysis Summer School organized by the ACS CATL division.
michele was selected as a participant for a workshop organzied by DOE National Laboratories entitled "Closing the Carbon Cycle: Opportunities in the Energy Sciences."
michele transitioned to her role as chair for the diversity, equity, climate, and inclusion committee.
june 2022
michele presented a poster on the group's work at Catalysis Gordon Research Conference.
we welcomed two high school student researchers Jackie and Elizabeth for the summer.
may 2022
the group ventured to NYC for NAM27! sam, hayat, and michele gave oral presentations. rachel and michael were Kokes award winners with poster presentations. michele served as committee secretary, technical program committee member, and chair of diversity events, which included informal networking lunches with students and senior researchers from academia, national labs, and industry as well as a “Catalyzing Diversity” session that promoted discussion on how to foster inclusion within the catalysis community.
sydney was recognized with Andlinger Center Senior Thesis Prize in Energy and the Environment, Michelle Goudie '93 Senior Thesis Award, and the Joseph Clifton Elgin Prize! congrats syd!!
jeff, sydney, and clare all successfully defended their senior thesis work! congrats!
michele presented some of the group's zeolite work at the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia's Annual Symposium.
darius ganza will be joining our lab as an ACEE undergraduate research fellow for the summer.
april 2022
michele participated in a panel for high school students interested in STEM and engineering hosted by Princeton's chapter of Society of Women Engineers.
march 2022
michele presented some of the group's MOF work at the michigan catalysis society's monthly meeting as well as at ACS San Diego.
michele was invited as a participate in NSF's ECLIPSE: Ecosystem for Collaborative Leadership and Inclusive Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering meeting to discuss interesting research directions.
january 2022
cole, jun, and sonia all successfully passed their first proposition! congrats!
we are thrilled to welcome new grad students james trenton, along with juniors bella ('23 CHM) and stanley ('23 CBE).
sydney was awarded the University's Sachs Scholarship for her to use to sponsor fuel cell research at TUM starting this fall! congrats sydney on this amazing accomplishment: https://cbe.princeton.edu/news/cbe-senior-sydney-hughes-named-sachs-scholar
december 2021
unfortunately, Pacifichem was moved to virtual, but michele still enjoyed presenting her work in chris jones' session on porous materials!
hayat, rachel, sam, and michael all presented their work at NECZA, and rachel and michael won awards for best presentations!
november 2021
hayat, rachel, and michael all presented their work at AIChE. michele gave invited presentations in the inagural Pioneers of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering and Zeolite Science and Technologies.
rachel was awared a CRE graduate student awared for her excellence in research! congrats rachel!
hayat, michael, rachel, and farah all presented their work at the ACEE annual meeting.
october 2021
sam, rachel, and michele participated in ACS National Chemistry Week with demos about "Fast or Slow… Chemistry Makes It Go!."
hayat, michael, rachel, and farah all presented their work at the ACEE annual meeting.
both Clare Martin and Sydney Hughes received the Lidow Senior Thesis Award and The DuPont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant in memory of Michelle Goudie ’93. congrats!
michele gave a seminars in the Chemical Engineering Department at Lehigh University and MAE at Princeton University.
september 2021
we officially welcomed our CBE senior thesis students, Clare Martin and Sydney Hughes, into the lab to start the experimental components of their projects!
michele gave a seminar in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Tufts University.
michele hosted this inaugural NYCS Seminar for the Fall 2021 semester.
the group kicked off the semester with a lab BBQ!
august 2021
hayat's paper (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1ME00062D) was published in Molecular Systems Design & Engineering!
michele was recognized by the Dean and Vice Dean of SEAS for Faculty Outstanding Teaching based on Spring 2021 semester.
july 2021
the sarazen lab is well represented in NYCS leadership! michele moved into her position as chair, rachel was elected as webmaster, and sam was elected as student representative.
rachel's paper (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CY00567G) was published in Catalysis Science & Technology as a part of an Emerging Investigator Series. woohoo!
jeffrey presented his work at Princeton's Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. great job!
june 2021
michael was awarded a summer internship with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering where he will be working on MOFs for CO2 capture applications.
farah azmi CBE '24 is working in the lab for the summer through ACEE where she will be working with cole on modelling methane conversion reactions. welcome farah!
may 2021
jeffrey was awarded the Edmund Hayes Sr. '18 and the Horton Elmer funds for his senior research work as well as American Chemical Society - Division of Analytical Chemistry Award. congrats jeffrey!
sam was awarded the Mary and Randall Hack ’69 Graduate Award for Water and the Environment through the High Meadows Environmental Institute. congrats sam!
michael was selected as a Princeton Energy and Climate Scholars (PECS) fellow through the High Meadows Environmental Institute. he also received the Third Year Seminar Hubbell '47 Prize and the Hubert Alyea '24 Teaching Award. congrats michael!
hayat was selected as a writing center fellow where she will work with undergraduate and graduate students on their writing endeavors. congrats hayat!
april 2021
michele is the recipient of the SEAS Howard B. Wentz Junior Faculty Award.
michele organized and moderated a panel entitled "catalyzing sustainability through material design" for princeton's materials institute annual symposium. the panel brought together expects on energy, chemicals, and plastics research from the industrial, academic, and non-profit sectors.
march 2021
as chair elect to the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York, michele organized and hosted the (virtual) annual symposium. michael, hayat, and rachel all presented their work in the graduate student flash talks with michael and hayat winning awards! congrats!
february 2021
michael presented his work at the chemistry department's third year seminar. great job michael!
michele "virtually" visited colorado school of mines chemical engineering department and gave a talk entitled "metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as catalysts and catalyst precursorsfor small-molecule conversions" based on rachel and michael's.
natalia was again awarded the Dupont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant in memory of michelle goudie '93. congrats natalia!
january 2021
sam successfully passed his first proposition! congrats!
our group keeps growing! welcome new grad students cole, jun, and sonia, along with a chemistry undergraduate jeffrey.
december 2020
michele helped translate the NorthEastern Corridor Zeolite Association's annual meeting into a virtual platform and organized the student flash talk sessions. hayat and rachel both presented their work, with sam and michael helping run the session. a full team effort!
november 2020
michele gave an invited talk on hayat's work during the "Advances in Zeolite Science and Technology" session at AIChE hosted by Stacey Zones from Chevron. she also chaired the microporous and mesoporous materials sessions.
as a AIChE CRE division director, michele helped lead a diversity and inclusion breakout session.
october 2020
rachel, hayat, and michael all presented their work at Andlinger Center's Annual Meeting. great job!
group members had a socially distant carb fest at poe field!
september 2020
natalia was awarded the Dupont Senior Thesis Fellowship Grant in memory of michelle goudie '93. congrats natalia!
august 2020
group members had a socially distant bbq with lots of homemade carbs!
michele was elected chair elect for the Metropolitan New York Catalysis Society. congrats michele!
michele virtually met with students through Princeton's Freshman Scholars Institute as a Butler adviser.
michele virtually met with rising seniors for the Pathways to Graduate School program to introduce them to Princeton CBE and encourage them to apply to our great departments!
june 2020
natalia miller '21 officially joined our lab for her senior thesis work on biomass-derived jet fuel. welcome natalia!
florence was awarded the Michelle Goudie '93 Senior Thesis Award related to energy and the environment. congrats florence!
may 2020
both Serge Priam Nsanzineza '20 and Florence Odigie '20 successfully defended their senior theses. great job both of you!
students from the Sarazen, Gounder (Purdue), Flaherty (UIUC), and Hibbitts (Florida) groups started CatChats as forums to meet and discussion catalysis via zoom.
hayat presented during Princeton's (virtual) Research Day on Catalysis for Greener Chemistry. great job hayat!
april 2020
michele was elected AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Board Member!
michael successfully passed his generals with distinction! congrats!
march 2020
rachel's poster abstract was accepted for the Metropolitan New York Catalysis Society's annual symposium! her presentation, as well as michele's invited talk, were postponed.
february 2020
local high school teachers and students visit the lab through the princeton teaching cooperative.
michele and rachel's abstract for the International Congress on Catalysis was accepted for an oral presentation. congrats rachel!
january 2020
rachel and hayat passed their first propositions! congrats!
our group's work was featured in a Women in STEM volume of ColorMePhD! the coloring page is free to download and can be used for teaching science to kids in the classroom.
sam moore, a phd student in CBE, joined the sarazen group. welcome sam!
december 2019
prof. sarazen attended Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association's 23rd Annual Meeting at University of Pennsylvania.
november 2019
rachel presented her work at both the Joint Meeting of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York and Philadelphia Catalysis Club and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Annual Meeting.
october 2019
prof. sarazen served on a panel at the inaugural Princeton Pathway into the Academy, which is a year-long career development program prepares early-stage researchers for faculty careers in engineering and computer science.
september 2019
prof. sarazen attended the National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Charleston, SC.
michael smith, phd student from chemistry joins the group to be co-advised with Bruce Koel.
august 2019
prof. sarazen organized and chair sessions in Fundamentals of Nanoporous Materials at ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting in San Diego, CA.
prof. sarazen met with rising seniors at SEASs Pathways to Graduate School program.
july 2019
prof. sarazen presented the groups work to undergraduates at Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), an NSF MRSEC.
june 2019
prof. sarazen attended NAM26 in Chicago, IL sponsored by the North American Catalysis Society where she gave a presentation, chaired sessions related to her expertise, and was a discussion leader for the inaugural Women in Catalysis Luncheon.
matthew ko, a rising junior at Cornell University studying Applied and Engineering Physics with a minor in Computer Science, is working with the group this summer through the 2019 PRISM/PCCM REU program (https://pccm.princeton.edu/reu-0). welcome matthew!
may 2019
prof. sarazen was selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, which targets early-career engineers from industry, universities, and government labs. the symposium will be held this September in Charleston, SC.
april 2019
we have a new member of the sarazen group: sir (navier) stokes. his research will focus on diffusion during catalysis, primarily of the random walk variety.
prof. sarazen was the featured guest at the recent CBE women's lunch series.
prof. sarazen presented about the history of catalysis at the princeton public library as a part of the tower-to-town lecture series.
florence odigie and serge priam nsanzineza have joined the group for their senior thesis. welcome!
march 2019
prof. sarazen gave a guest lecture in CBE 199, which introduces freshman to chemical engineering.
prof. sarazen, rachel, and hayat all attend the catalysis society of metropolitan new york annual symposium held at princeton. it was a great day talking about science!
prof. sarazen had a paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
january 2019
prof. sarazen presented a flash talk at the second annual princeton catalysis initiative symposium.
the sarazen group has its founding members: hayat adawi and rachel yang! congrats and welcome!
michele sarazen officially joined the chemical and biological engineering faculty at princeton university as an assistant professor.
december 2018
michele sarazen had papers published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C and Journal of Catalysis.
november 2018
michele sarazen gave a presentation at AIChE annual meeting in Pittsburgh entitled "Metal Organic Framework-derived Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation."