NEWS
NEWS
August 1st, 2026
Sophomore Mati-Claire Miley joins the group. Welcome!
Brendon receives the 2026 Barry Lever Young Investigator Award in Physical Inorganic Chemistry and presents in Kyoto, Japan! https://chem.utk.edu/mcnicholas-receives-barry-lever-award-for-young-investigators/
July 1st, 2026
Congratulations to Kelsie for winning the Keenan Teaching Award and Alex for winning the Outstanding PhD Candidate Award at our 2026 Chemistry Honors Day!
April 30th, 2026
Congratulations to Neil for winning an Achievement Award for his poster presentation at the 30th Eurēca Undergraduate Symposium!
April 15th, 2026
Congratulations to Emmy for winning best poster presentation and Neil for winning the Dr. Lucy E. Scroggie Scholarship! We are very proud of our undergraduates!
April 11th, 2026
Congratulations to Dyson and Alex on passing their candidacy exams!
March 5th, 2026
1st year graduate student Sam Chasen joins the group. Welcome!
December 1st, 2025
Junior Aiden Sparkman joins the group. Welcome!
September 1st, 2025
May 2025
Marissa graduates from UTK with her BS in Chemistry!
2nd Year Graduate Student Ryan Arnold wins the 2025 Outstanding TA Award. Congrats Ryan!
May 1st, 2025
Sophomores Neil Parek and Emmy Cameron join the group. Welcome!
January 21st, 2025
December 1st, 2024
1st year graduate students Dyson and Alex join the group. Welcome!
The McNicholas Lab receives a Doctoral New Investigator grant through the ACS Petroleum Research Fund for our work on electrocatalytic transformations of petroleum feedstocks.
November 7th, 2024
Our EasyXAFS300+ arrives from Washington!
September 18th, 2024
Rising senior in chemistry Marissa Kuruce joins the McNicholas Group. Welcome Marissa!
May 30th, 2024
Our new glove box arrived from VAC-ATM!
March 11th, 2024
