Page 10 • Lehigh University The Young Lab welcomed two new graduate students to the group since our last update. Welcome to Domenica Fertal and Christian Guzman who both joined the group late in the fall of 2021. Shea Martin received the Lehigh University Horner Fellowship for the 2022-2023 year to fund his project on Re(I)- carbonyl complexes for photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer. In February, Shea gave a presentation in the graduate student seminar series detailing the results of his thesis projects entitled “Combining Experiment and Computation to Solve Complex Problems in Photochemistry.” During 2022, Professor Young gave seminars the University of Houston, Villanova University and Muhlenberg College. She was invited speaker at the Philadelphia Inorganic Colloquium in the Fall of 2022. In November, Professor Young gave two international talks in Germany, visiting the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. And, in May, Professor Young traveled to Mexico to the 3rd Frontiers in Photochemistry Conference to deliver a talk on “Ultra-fast Excited-State Dynamics of Accessing triplet Excited States in Porphyrinoids”. Professor Young attended the Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions Gordon Research Conference in August to present a poster on “Photo-induced Charge Transfer Dynamics in thin-films of Sb 2 S 3.” In 2022, the Young lab hosted Prof. Jared Paul (from Villanova) and his undergraduate research students Olivia Kachurak (’24) ; Tyler Caron (’24); Hailey Bierling (’25) to carry out transient absorption measurements on Ru(II)- complexes. Visiting scholar Dr. Ryan Crisp (from the University of Erlangen, Germany) visited for 5 weeks to use our ultrafast laser system. Over the summer, Professor Young and Professor Fredin, continued the second year of the PURE program (Photochemistry Undergraduate Research Experience), which combines computation and experimental physical chemistry research. Four Lehigh undergraduate students (Jake Haber, Chem ’25; Allen Chen, Physics 25; Rachel Joh, Chem ’25; Gabe Masso, Chem ’24) are continuing their research projects during the 2022-2023 academic year. See https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/younglablehigh/pure/ for more details. Professor Young was awarded an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant entitled “Controlling Excited-State Dynamics and Reactivity of Naphthalene-Based Azo Dyes” and began work on this project in May 2022. On the teaching and mentoring front, Professor Young was awared the 2022 Lehigh Early Career Award for Distinguished Teaching, Lehigh University. She also completed the CIMER Mentor Training run by the Deputy Provost for Faculty Affairs and the Deputy Provost for Graduate Education and participated in the Inclusive Excellence in Teaching Workshop run by the CITL at Lehigh CITL. Professor young continues to serve on the Leadership team of the Chemistry Women Mentorship Network (ChemWMN) (http://brandicossairt.wixsite.com/ chemwmn), which has the goal to create a national network of women in academic chemistry to provide support, encouragement and mentorship for young women considering careers in academia. PIERS: PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2021, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Apr. 22, 2022 (online) Keynote presentation, The 82th Physical Electronics Conference, Loyola University Chicago, IL, Jun. 7-9, 2022 American Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, Aug. 23, 2022 Department of Chemistry, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT, Sept. 9, 2022 FACSS SciX 2022 Conference, Northern Kentucky, KT, USA, Oct. 2, 2022 Department of Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Nov. 4, 2022 (online)
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