2025 - CNS Teaching and Mentoring Award: Megan Hill
Congratulations to SuPRCat PI Megan Hill, who has received an Early Career Faculty Excellence in Teaching and/or Mentoring Award from the CSU College of Natural Sciences.
2025 - CSU is named a world leader in sustainability
For the 11th year running, Colorado State University has ranked as a top institution based on efforts to integrate sustainability into coursework, research, campus life and operations. CSU has a goal of using electricity from 100% renewable resources by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2040.
2025 - SuPRCat Team Meeting in Colorado 25/04/25
SuPRCat researchers met at Colorado State University to discuss Higher Education and Professional Development, Broader Impacts, Innovation, Broadening Participation, Informal Science Communication. Several students gave presentations on collaborative center projects.
2025 - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar: Zach Wickens
Congratulations to SuPRCat Investigator Zach Wickens on receiving a 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! These awards recognize faculty within the first five years of their academic careers, who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.
2025 - SuPRCat appears in the Rocky Mountain Collegian
Research from SuPRCat groups shows promise in destroying forever chemicals
2025 - SuPRCat researchers explain how forever chemicals can be destroyed
2024 - SuPRCat Researchers in the news!
SuPRCat researchers in the Miyake, Damrauer and Paton groups recently described a new approach to breakdown PFAS, known as "forever chemicals", using an organic photoredox catalyst. Center researchers have been involved in several activities to communicate these results to a wide audience:
- Aspen Radio (Colorado): Colorado researchers are one step closer to taking the ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals
- ABC National Radio (Australia): Scientists discover a way to break down PFAS
- Deutschlandradio (Germany): Chemical reaction with light destroys "forever chemicals"
- Chemistry World: Visible light-powered catalysts clean up ‘forever chemicals’
- Behind the Paper Blog: Photocatalytic C‒F bond activation in small molecules and polyfluoroalkyl substances
- The Source: https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/nature-paper-discusses-new-approach-to-breakdown-pfas-forever-chemicals/
- Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2024-11-based-photocatalytic-pfas-room-temperature.html
- C&EN: https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/New-techniques-use-visible-light/102/web/2024/11
- Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03753-z
- Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/light-powered-catalysts-destroy-forever-chemicals
2024 - SuPRCat Angewandte Chemie Cover Article
SuPRCat researchers made the front cover of Angewandte Chemie with their work: Organocatalyzed Carbonylation of Alkyl Halides Driven by Visible Light
2024 - SuPRCat Annual In-Person Meeting in Colorado
SuPRCat researchers came to Colorado State University this week to participate in the Center's annual meeting at the end of year 1. The meeting focused on student presentations, broadening participation, informal science communication, professional development, innovation and seeding collaborative research opportunities.
2024 - Learn about SuPRCat
Colorado State Source Magazine features SuPRCat
2024 - Zach Wickens tenure talk
Congratulations to SuPRCat Investigator Zach Wickens who gave an amazing tenure talk yesterday: Selective Synthesis using Light and Electricity
2024 - SuPRCat Symposium at the ACS GC&E Atlanta 2024
SuPRCat researchers Seonah Kim, Steven Lopez and Robert Paton are organizing a symposium at this year's ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference June 3–5 2024 in Atlanta. The conference theme is AI-enabled green chemistry, and this symposium will focus on Sustainable Catalyst Design using AI/ML. Submit an abstract and don't miss out on this SuPR symposium!
2024 - Summer Theory Training at Colorado State and Northeastern University
SuPRCat researchers Seonah Kim, Steven Lopez and Robert Paton are organizing summer research opportunities in computational chemistry for undergraduate researchers this year. The Fixman Summer Theory program will take place at Colorado State University, and involves training in quantum chemistry and Python programming. The Lopez group's summer research experience in computational chemistry and machine learning is accessible to community college students, including virtual and in-person opportunities to learn cutting-edge research skills.
2023 - SuPRCat is launched
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Colorado State University, the University of Colorado Boulder, University of Wisconsin, University of Northern Colorado, Northeastern University, Metropolitan State University Denver and industrial partner New Iridium have joined together to form the Center for Sustainable PhotoRedox Catalysis (SuPRCat). This new NSF supported Center for Chemical Innovation, led by Prof. Garret Miyake will explore how light can be used to make more sustainable chemicals.
For more information on this Phase I CCI, head to CSU Source
