Student Presentation at SIReS 2026

Ben Howard, Victoria Kelly, and Angela Webber conducted summer research sponsored by INSGC and presented their work “Spectral Analysis of Silicate Dust Models in Planetary Nebulae” at the Summer Interdisciplinary Research Symposium (SIReS) on VU campus, July 22, 2026.

Presentation at ACS Fall Meeting 2026

At the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, August 23-27, 2026, Chicago, Illinois,

Prof. He presented a talk (co-authored by Chunhui Liu, Ravindra Pandey, and Shashi P. Karna) “Ligand-dependent properties of amino acid-conjugated Au8 nanoclusters”, and a poster (co-authored by Gengnan Li, and Peter Zapol) “Searching for optimal conditions in electrochemical methane oxidation to methanol”.

Participation in Visiting Faculty Program at Argonne Summer 2026

In summer 2026, Prof. He and Abby Proskurniak participated in the Visiting Faculty Program at Argonne National Laboratory sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS). Abby presented a poster at the Learning On the Lawn, where interns proudly shared their research with laboratory leaders, colleagues, and visitors, showcasing the knowledge, skills, and confidence they developed throughout the summer.

Student Presentation at SORCE 2026

Joel Osterhus, Abby Proskurniak, and Victoria Kelly (other contributors: Jonathan Bauzon, Samantha Krusza, Zeke Montemayor) presented a poster “Spectral Signatures of Silicate Clusters in Planetary Nebulae” at the Valparaiso University Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE) 2026 on VU campus, April 30, 2026.

2025

  1. Kaline Nascimento da Silva, Kavyasree Anjanarambath, Caroline Katherine Williams, Haiying He, Peter Zapol, and Pietro Papa Lopes, “Ir(hkl) Surface Electrochemistry in a Nonadsorbing Acidic Medium” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 30708-30722 (2025).   https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04909  
  2. Dewen Hou, Haiying He, Frederick Agyapong-Fordjour, Zhenhua Xie, Sinwoo Kang, Adyasa Priyadarsini, Shyam Kattel, Pietro Papa Lopes, Peter Zapol, Yuzi Liu, and Gengnan Li, “Boosting the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by Tuning the Interfacial Iron Adsorption on Layered Double Hydroxide”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 28, 41271–41281 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c06555
  3. Xin Zheng, Nikita Gupta, Haiying He, Jasleen K. Bindra, Subharaj Hossain, Juan P. Vizuet, Atefeh Nadeali, Danial Zangeneh, Roushan Prakash Singh, Robert F. Klie, Brian P. Chaplin, Kenneth Brezinsky, Oleg G. Poluektov, Jens Niklas, Peter Zapol, Ksenija D. Glusac, “A Light-Responsive Metal–Organic Framework with Perchlorinated Nanographene Ligands”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147, 16420–16428 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c02844
  4. Chunhui Liu, Haiying He, Ravindra Pandey and Shashi P. Karna, “Understanding the Growth Mechanism of Thiol-Conjugated Au25 Cluster”, ACS Omega 2025, 10 (14), 14150–14156 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c11441

2024

  1. Haiping Xu, Jianxin Wang, Haiying He*, Inhui Hwang, Yuzi Liu, Chengjun Sun, Haozhe Zhang, Tao Li, John V. Muntean, Tao Xu*, and Di-Jia Liu*, “Modulating CO2 Electrocatalytic Conversion to the Organics Pathway by the Catalytic Site Dimension”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, 10357-10366 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c12722

Student Presentation at SOURCE 2025

Rising juniors Abby Proskurniak and Joel Osterhus presented a poster “Possible Molecular Origins of the Unidentified Infrared Emission Features in Planetary Nebulae” at the Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, SOURCE 2025 on VU campus, April 24, 2025.