Was a fun and a relaxing outing with the group on a wonderfully sunny evening at the Halfmoon lake. Thanks Bryan for rallying the group and organizing the event.

Our group gave two talks at the 239th Electrochemical Society Meeting (Summer 2021), which was a virtual event this year.

1. Rohini gave an invited talk titled: "Multiscale Evaluation of Light Absorption, Transport and Kinetics in  Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Reactors for Solar Hydrogen Production". Thanks to the organizers for inviting!
2. Luisa also gave a contributed talk titled "Effects of Effluent Stream Composition and Competing Reactions Effect on Wastewater Nitrate Reduction in a Photoelectrochemical Device" 

Luisa did an excellent job in presenting her past, ongoing and future research work for her dissertation committee today. Great work so far and lots of interesting work to look forward to. Keep it up, Luisa! 

Xingze Dai, an undergraduate research student in our lab won the best poster presentation in his session at the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium. Way to go Xingze! 

Artwork from our recently published paper on wastewater nitrates transformation to value-added products was selected as front cover in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (vol. 9, issue 10). Special thanks to Jeff Knudsen and Hillary Robinson from the Michigan creative team and the College of Eng. (COE) grants team -- Joanne Navarre and Richard Vanden Heuvel

Thanks to Iryna Zenyuk for inviting me and giving me an opportunity to give a departmental seminar at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. I really enjoyed meeting and talking to faculty and students in the department. 

Rohini attended the 2020, US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. Too bad this event wasn't in-person, but the virtual experience was stellar via e-poster boards. Great speakers, good collection of session topics, and engaged breakout sessions with fellow participants made it a wonderful event all around.