News
December 4, 2024
Welcome Vartika and Yuanxi!
The group keeps growing! We welcome first-year graduate student Vartika and undergraduate student Yuanxi to our group! We look forward to the awesome science you will produce in our lab!
November 22, 2024
We won a safety award!
We were recognized with a safety award at the Fall award event! We strive to keep doing good work in keeping our lab a safe space for everyone.
October 8, 2024
Welcome Luke and Jonathan!
We welcome new members to our group. Luke is joining us as a graduate student and Jonathan as an undergraduate student. We look forward to the great science you will produce in our lab!
October 4, 2024
Bryce Presented His Research!
Bryce presented his summer research at the annual Schwartz Discover Grant Symposium. He did a great job and we are very proud of him. Keep up the hard work, Bryce!
August 14, 2024
Congrats Daniela!
Congratulations to rising 2nd-year graduate student Daniela for being awarded Sherman-Clarke Graduate Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year! Keep up the hard work!
August 2, 2024
Good Bye Summer Students!
We are sad saying “good bye” to our REU student Sam Andes and recent UR graduate Meiqin Gao. We really enjoyed having them in the group this summer. We hope to see Sam back for graduate school and wish Meiqin all the best!
July 17, 2024
Fun with Upward Bound!
This week, Agnes taught a course on energy and electrochemistry to pre-college students participating in the Upward Bound program. James helped us with some cool experiments!
July 2, 2024
Welcome Azina!
We welcome Azina Rahmani to the Thorarinsdottir Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. We are very excited to have you join our efforts in making novel framework-based systems!
May 29, 2024
Welcome Sam!
We welcome Samantha Andes to our group this summer. Sam is participating in our 10-week REU program and comes from Wilkes University. We are very excited to have you on board!
May 19, 2024
Meiqin Graduated!
Congratulations to Meiqin Gao who graduated with BA in Chemistry as a part of the U of R 2024 class! We are very proud of her and wish her all the best preparing for medical school.
April 21, 2024
Bryce Awarded Discover Grant
Congratulations to Bryce Kneer who has been awarded the 2024 Schwartz Discover Grant from the University! This competitive award provides financial support for conducting summer research.
December 12, 2023
Welcome Graduate Students
We welcome our first cohort of graduate students: Anyesh, Daniela, and Phil! We are so excited to have you join us and can’t wait to see all the awesome science that you will produce!
September 5, 2023
Welcome New Undergrads
We welcome three new U of R undergraduate students to the team! James Kim (junior), Meiqin Gao (senior), and Steven Riera (junior) will be working with us this academic year. We are so excited to have you join us!
July 24, 2023
Duong presented his work
Duong presented his summer research project at the Summer Research Symposium for REU and i-Scholar Students, thereby being the first student to represent the group. Great job, Duong!
July 7, 2023
Welcome Duong and Bryce!
We welcome undergraduate students Duong Minh Truong and Bryce Kneer to the group! Duong is part of the i-Scholar program and Bryce is a rising junior at U of R. We are so excited to have you join the team!
July 7, 2023
Group website launched!
The Thorarinsdottir Group website is live! The lab also just opened its doors in rooms B05 and B07 in the basement of Hutchison Hall. Swing by the lab to check us out!