December 6th – Our Group rang in the Holidays with a wonderful party hosted by Josh full of delicious food, libations, Mario kart racing and a ping pong tournament! Happy holidays to all!
November 8th – Graden was selected to give an oral presentation at the annual Ohio Inorganic Weekend, at Miami University. Great job, Graden!
The Buss group’s proposal to advance understanding of catalytic CO2 reduction and C–C coupling at surface-like copper clusters has been selected for funding by the DOE as part of the Early Career Research Program in Catalysis Science! This 5-year grant will enable group investigations of the early- (CO2 deoxygenation), mid- (C1 surface species), and late-stage (beyond C2 products) mechanisms of CO2RR. Way to go, team!
September 13th – Matt, Graden, and Kelsey presented posters, while Dylan was selected to give an oral presentation at the annual Michigan Inorganic Chemistry Symposium (MICS) hosted by Wayne State University. Way to represent the team, Dylan!
August 17th – Claire, Dylan and Graden all had the opportunity to present their research giving oral presentations at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, DC. Way to represent the Buss group on a national stage!
August 7th – Andrew rounds out the first cohort of students to graduate after another successful Ph.D. defense. His dissertation titled “A Molecular Tricopper Model System: Informing Mechanisms in Catalytic Reductions via Robust Structure-Property Relationships” is a tour de force in inorganic synthesis, catalysis, and thermochemistry. Way to go Dr. Beamer!
August 5th – The Buss group’s Early-Stage Investigator MIRA Proposal has been selected for funding by the NIH! This 5-year grant will facilitate research exploring metal-metal cooperativity both in complex enzyme active sites and as a design feature in next-generation molecular catalysts. This wouldn’t be possible without the tireless efforts of group members past and present.
July 31st –Matt, Dylan, Graden, and Kelsey all presented posters at the annual Karle Symposium. Congratulations to Matt on winning an outstanding poster award!
July 10th – Hayley quickly follows, defending her thesis and successfully earning her Ph.D. She will leave behind her awesome work on “Multinuclear Nickel Complexes Featuring Unusual Oxygenic Ligands: Hydrogen Peroxide Activation, Catalase Reactivity, and Efforts Toward C–H Activation” to begin her new career at Wacker Chemical. Way to go Dr. Lillo!
July 3rd – Michela became the first Buss group member to successfully defend her Ph.D. and earn the title of doctor, with her exceptional thesis entitled: “Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Molecular Metal Hydride Clusters.” Way to go Dr. Maiola!
June 9th – Although it took some time, Josh’s project highlighting the extraordinary glassblowing facilities here at UM Chemistry finally came to fruition. You can watch the full video here. The wait was worth it.
A big thank you to Roy Wentz for everything he does to facilitate our research.
6 May, 2025 – The group celebrates Dylan and Claire completing their 3rd year seminar at Bills Beer Garden. Congrats on another milestone down!
28 April, 2025 – Congratulations to Matt for completing his data meeting!
9 April, 2025 – Slam Dunk! Graden passed his gateway exam with flying colors, great work!
8 April, 2025 – Andrew and Michela were recognized for their terrific work with Chemistry Department Awards. Andrew garnered the Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award and Michela was recognized with a Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Research Fellowship. Stupendous!
2 April, 2025 – Michela just published her metal-metal salt metathesis chemistry in Inorg. Chem. Frontiers. Check out the unique low-valent tantalum/gold clusters here. Great work Michela!
31 March, 2025 – Kelsey Zimmerman officially becomes the newest Buss group member, Welcome Kelsey, we’re excited to have you!
7 February, 2025 – Andrew published his copper NOx chemistry in an awesome ACIE communication. Check out the surface relevant reductive coupling of NO and denitrification of N2O here. Great work Andrew!
1 November, 2024 – Hayley and Michela were both recognized with prestigious Chemistry Department Fellowships to support their research efforts this upcoming winter term. Awesome job, you two!
18 August, 2024 – Andrew, Michela, Hayley, Matt and Claire got the chance to present their work to a diverse scientific audience at the ACS fall meeting in Colorado.
26 July, 2024 – Graden, Claire, Dylan, Matt and Andrew are selected for Poster awards at the departmental Karle Symposium. Way to go team!
8 July, 2024 – Hayley published her nickel peroxycarbonate chemistry in chemical communications. Check out the unique peroxide and CO2 coordination chemistry here. Great work Hayley!
8 May, 2024 – Matt closed out a busy spring with a fantastic department-wide seminar as part of the Inorganic Third Year talks. Congratulations on passing this thesis milestone!
Both Dylan and Claire commemorated their success with Gateway Plushies (and Mr. Worldwide… da le)!
7 May, 2024 – Dylan excelled in his Research Gateway Exam, talking about silica-surface model chemistry with bona fide materials scientists. Awesome job, Dylan!
2 May, 2024 – Ellis made history as the Buss Group’s first graduate (undergraduate). We are so proud of all he has accomplished and learned and wish him the best of luck as he continues his journey at Berkeley in the fall.
25 April, 2024 – Hayley completed the fourth-year sweep with a successful data meeting. Congratulations, Hayley!
24 April, 2024 – The UM Chemistry Department celebrated the excellence of its undergraduate population with the annual award ceremony.
Ellis garnered distinction with the ACS Huron Valley Section Outstanding Student Leadership Award. Awesome work Ellis!
23 April, 2024 – Andrew completed his data meeting. Congratulations!
15 April, 2024 – Congratulations to Michela for completing her data meeting!
27 March, 2024 – Sarah Reed officially became the Buss Group’s newest member. Welcome back Sarah, we couldn’t be happier to have you returning to the team!
29 April, 2024 – Claire crushed her second year Research Gateway Exam, impressing her committee with the extent, rigor, and thoughtfulness of her work. Way to go!
5 March, 2024 – Josh headed west to South Bend to share some Buss group science with the inorganic folks at Notre Dame. Awesome to both catch up with old friends and meet new ones!
26 February, 2024 – A trip to the Big Easy for a student-invited research seminar at Tulane University. A big thanks to Addie Fraker and Prof. Alex McSkimming.
4-9 February, 2024 – Josh attended his first ever Atomically Precise Nanochemistry Gordon Research Conference. Really cool to see chemistry blurring the lines between molecules and materials!
9 January, 2024 – The University of Michigan completed a perfect (14 -0!!!) NCAA football season to secure the national championship. Celebrations ensued in Ann Arbor! Meanwhile, the Buss Group adopted findensers to offset the carbon footprint of this Michigan-themed big rig.
The Buss group starts off strong in 2024 with Graden Snyder (Left) officially becoming the newest member! Additionally, we have Shae Hagler (Middle) and Marek Vavrovic (Right) rotating for the Winter semester. It is great to have all three of them on the team!
We all got together for an evening of fun, food, and friendship (and espresso!) at the Buss house. There was even a special appearance from a pair from Mount Crumpit!
“Well done, Max!”
An awesome showing from the lab down in Bowling Green–posters from the whole team and a fantastic talk by Hayley!
Ellis' poster earned recognition as the top undergraduate poster presentation; great job Ellis!
9 November, 2023 – Better late than never. A warm Buss-group welcome to the three awesome rotation students who matched for the Fall ’23 semester. We are excited for you all to learn what we are about, get integrated into the lab, and we are keen to see how your different flavors of metal cluster chemistry evolve.
13 October, 2023 – Michela just published her metal-metal salt metathesis chemistry in an awesome ACIE communication. Check out the first example of using arene-supported metallates to construct heteromultimetallic clusters here. Great work Michela!
27-28 July, 2023 – Posters galore. Hayley, Matt, Claire, Dylan, and Graden proudly represented the Buss Group at the annual Karle Symposium. Ellis presented the day prior at the URANIUM poster event. Awesome job all! (Special thanks to the official Buss group photographer Colin Tichvon)
9-14 July, 2023 – A successful trip to Salve Regina via UConn Chemistry (thanks Gaël!) for a fruitful Organometallics GRC. It was awesome seeing close friends and reconnecting with the CENTC crowd.
12 June, 2023 – The Buss Group welcomes Graden Snyder for a summer rotation! We were anticipating some excellent multimetallic chemistry and Graden did not disappoint!
5 June, 2023 – Andrew publishes his tricopper hydride chemistry as the Buss Group’s inaugural publication. Check some awesome synthesis, XRD, and CO2 reactivity studies here.
Andrew's chemistry was selected for a highlight in Nature Reviews Chemistry; you can check it out here.
8 May, 2023 – Matt successfully completes his Research Gateway Exam! Way to go, Matt.
1 May, 2023 – A new undergraduate researcher joins the team. Welcome Mason, very excited to have you in the lab.
19 April, 2023 – The Buss Group welcomes its newest graduate students: Claire Patterson and Dylan Bodner. Super excited to have both of you joining the team and can’t wait to see the great science that lies ahead.
7 April, 2023 – Ellis presents his work at the UM Undergraduate Research Symposium. Check out those proud parents!
26-30 March, 2023 – Josh gave two talks at the ACS Conference in Indianapolis; he was beyond grateful to have an opportunity to participate in the ACS Organometallics Award Symposium honoring his postdoc advisor, Professor Shannon Stahl.
22 March, 2023 – Josh headed east to Oakland University to interface with chemistry colleagues in nearby Rochester Hills. Thanks for the speaker invite, Zach!
3 March, 2023 – Hayley closed out the Buss Group’s Inorganic Departmental Third-Year Seminars with a great presentation. She was joined by Michael Lengel from the Lehnert Lab. A big congratulations to Hayley on completing this milestone.
17 February, 2023 – The Buss Group was well-represented in the first installment of Inorganic Departmental Third-Year Seminars. A big congratulations to both Michela and Andrew for giving great talks.
Michela was selected as a Third-Year Seminar Prize Winner for both her excellent science and exceptional delivery.
19-20 January, 2023 – Josh visited nearby Calvin University and Hope College to share some Buss group chemistry with fellow Michiganders. PS: Lake Michigan is beautiful, even when icy.
9 January, 2023 – Three new rotation students will be calling the Buss Group home for the Winter semester. We are very excited to have Christian Andre, Dylan Bodner, and Claire Patterson joining the team. Welcome!
7 January, 2023 – UM Chemistry kicked off the new year with a holiday celebration on ice!
5 November, 2022 – Josh and Yaneli get married! After a COVID postponement, they were finally able to celebrate their union with friends and family. Louie was dressed to the nines.
Buss group third years, (L to R) Michela, Andrew, and Hayley along with postdoc, Dolores, each gave presentations at the Fall ACS 2022 National Meeting in Chicago, Illinois last week.
This week, Dale and Hayley presented their research at the URAN|UM and the Karle Symposiums, respectively. The group had a great time hearing about cutting-edge science happening throughout LSA and at neighboring universities! Great work!
Hayley was recognized with an award for best poster; great job!
The Buss group grows! Two new undergraduate researchers, Dale and Ellis, as well as returning first year graduate student, Matt, have officially joined the team. We welcome you and are excited to see the cool chemistry you will conduct in the lab!
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