07.10.2025 - Attarroshan and Cutright earned authorship on S. Gwaltney's group's paper in Polyhedron. Well done to both Mohsen and Mahshid!
06.01.2025 - NSF REU student (Akaylin Echols, Tuskegee University) joins the ESRG for the summer. Welcome Akaylin!
05.12.2025 - Perkins completed her MS degree. Well done Amanda!
12.12.2024 - Cutright compled his PhD. Well done Alex and best of luck at Vanderbilt!
06.01.2024 - NSF REU student (Bryan Chacon, Ga Tech) joins the ESRG for the summer. Welcome Bryan!
05.15.2024 - MSU Undergraduates Caden Andrews join the ESRG as summer research students. Welcome Caden!
01.24.2024 - Sharma reports paper on Cu-catalyzed ketone reduction in renewable solvents. Well done Mitu and team!
01.15.2024 - ESRG welcomes Luis Choy as a new graduate student!
10.04.2024 - Raju's paper on CEL chemoselectivty was published by Dalton Transactions! Well done Selvam.
08.16.2023 - Adhikari's paper reporting CEL using an in situ formed Cu-NHC complex was published by the European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Well done Bhupen and co-workers!
07.23.2023 - Cutright's paper on AdcR accepted by JIB. Well done Alex and co-workers!
06.01.2023 - NSF REU student (Hannah Saia, Ursaline College) joins the ESRG for the summer. Welcome Hannah!
04.28.2023 - Masaeli's paper on aza-Michael additions was accepted! Well done Erfan and team!
03.15.2023 - Sharma's paper on nickel(II) hydrogenation of ketones was accepted! Well done Mitu and team!
06.01.2022 - NSF REU student (Emily Rouse, Lebben Valley) joins the ESRG for the summer. Welcome Emily!
06.01.2022 - Emerson/Stoke partnered in Minority Leadership Research Collaboration Program with AFRL
06.15.2022 - Former trainee Li's paper in ABB was accepted! Congrats Dr. Mingjie Li!
06.01.2022 - 1st year graduate student Katie Dove Power joins the ESRG for the Summer 2022 semester. Welcome KDP!
05.15.2022 - MSU Undergraduates Alison Duckworth and Erin Matthews join the ESRG as summer research students. Welcome Alison and Erin!
05.14.2022 - Sharma's paper in Chemistry was accepted!
04.01.2022 - ESRG welcomes Moshen Teimouri and Seyed Erfan Masaeli as new graduate students!
01.01.2022 - McConnell's paper in Inorganic Chemistry published. Well done Kayla!
10.15.2021 - Emerson, Carter, and Cutright give presentations at SERMACS 2021.
10.01.2021 - Akter completes MS degree. Well done Mahmuda and good luck at The Ohio State!
06.15.2021 - Uddin completes MS degree. Well done Raihan and good luck at CUNY!
06.01.2021 - NSF REU student (Jacob Solis, UW-Steven's Point) joins the ESRG for the summer. Welcome Jacob!
06.01.2021 - Emerson Stokes Research group welcomes Alex Cutright and Kyle Carter, two new graduate students to our research team!
01.15.2021 - Emerson informed that the Emerson/Stokes Collaboration has been invited into the MSU/NIH COBRE program!
01.12.2021 - Ruby Hall was offered admission to UMMC's medical School. Congrats Ruby, well deserved!
12.20.2020 - Cope's paper in Organometallics was accepted!
12.15.2020 - Wolgemuth's paper describing the Mn-TmPyP4 aziridination catalyst was published in Cat Comm!
11.30.2020 - Emerson elected Alternate Councilor for the MS local section of the ACS
11.25.2020 - Michael Wan accepted to dental school at Auburn. Congrats Michael!
09.15.2020 - Emerson/Stokes Collaboration funded through the Office of Sponsored Projects to support our budding CEL project!
05.02.2020 - Graduation day - Congrats Josh Porter, Jacob Nichols, and Nolen Alrich. Best of luck in your future endevors!
04.12.2020 - Drs. Kayla McConnell and James Cope have defended their dissertations! Congrats Kayla and James!
03.10.2020 - Mahmuda Akter joined the Emerson group! Welcome!
10.12.2019 - Md. Raihan Uddin joined the Emerson group! Welcome!
10.11.2019 - Josh Porter accepted to med school. Congrats Josh!
09.05.2019 - Graduatation day for ASM Saem and Prakash Khanal. Best of luck at Temple and Georgia Tech!
O6.01.2019 - Ruby Hall, Peyton Wall, Patrick Sheridan, Michael Wan, and Lilly Cao all joined the Emerson/Stokes Collaboration as part of our Summer REU program. Welcome all!
05.02.2019 - Graduatation day for Tony Zhu. Best of luck at Boston College!
12.17.2018 - Emerson elected as chair of the MS local section of the ACS
12.13.2018 - Graduatation day for Dr. Valle and Dr. Li
10.01.2018 - Dr. Mingjie Li has accepted a post-doc with Mark Hedglin at Penn State! Congrats Mingjie!
O8.30.2018 - Prakash Khanal and James Cope have officially joined the ERG! Welcome!
08.10.2018 - Emerson finally has gained enough momentum to be awarded an office with a window!
08.03.2018 - Mingjie Li's paper on the thermodynamics of the initial steps of the mechanism of iron(II) EFE was accepted in Biochemistry!
05.25.2018 - Henry Valle's first author paper on copper(II) based catalysts for N-transfer reactions has been accepted in ChemistrySelect!
06.21.2018 - Dr. Henry Valle passed his dissertation defense! Congrats Henry!
06.15.2018 - Dr. Mingjie Li passed her dissertation defense! Congrats Mingjie!
05.20.2018 - Mingjie Li's paper on transition metal ion substitution into TauD has been accepted in JBIC!
06.15.2018 - The ERG paper on copper(II) based catalysts for N-transfer reactions has been accepted in ChemistrySelect!
06.04.2018 - The ERG welcomes Wesley (Wes) Harrison, Quinesa (Quin) Williams, and Ashlee Bartlett, three undergraduate researchers that are part of the interdisciplinary REU at MSU.
05.04.2018 - Kathleen Riley has completed her BS in Chemistry at MSU! Best of luck at UNC next fall!
04.04.2018 - Kathleen Riley was inducted into the Society of Scholars (SOS) at MSU! She is in the top 2% of all students at MSU - Congrats Kathleen!
09.21.2017 - Congrats Emerson group!, you finally have a web-page.
07.01.2017 - Kayla McConnell's paper in collaboration with C. Peterson (LSU) was published in JBIC!
06.01.2017 - Shanterell Redd joined the ERG as a summer student!
06.01.2017 - Congrats Kathleen Riley for landing a great REU at the University of Minnesota.
04.17.2017 - Kathleen Riley was inducted into the Society of Scholars at MSU! Congrats Kathleen!
01.01.2017 - Former ERG member Dr. Kate Henderson has landed an NIH post-doctoral research fellowship to work with T. Record at the University of Wisconsin. Congrats Kate!
08.01.2009 - The ERG starts at Mississippi State University.
