Wijeratne Research Laboratory

May 2022 – Welcome to the group, Julia!! We are thrilled to have you on board!

May 2022 – Congratulations to Garrett for getting his graduate research proposal funded by the Alabama EPSCoR Graduate Research Scholars Program (GRSP). This grant will fund his research efforts throughout the next year, and will allow him to work as a fully funded graduate research assistant in our lab. Well done, Garrett!!

May 2022 – Welcome to the group, Dhilanka, Akhil, Kayla and Jeydi!! We are thrilled to have you all join us!

April 2022 – Congratulations to Samith on receiving the Outstanding Upper Division Lab Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the 2022 Chemistry Department Award Ceremony!!

April 2022 – Congratulations to Garrett on receiving the Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry Award at the 2022 Chemistry Department Award Ceremony!!

February 2022 – Our recent publication in JACS is featured on a supplementary cover!!

January 2022 – Our most recent study on high-valent heme mediated selective, high-yielding indole monooxygenation giving 2-oxindole has been accepted for publication in JACS!!! Congrats to Pritam and Shanuk on their great achievement!

December 2021 – Welcome Mangi to the Group!! We are glad to have you onboard!

November 2021 – Congrats to Garrett on passing his qualifier exams!!

November 2021 – Dr. Wijeratne organized a bioinorganic symposium titled “Small molecule activation at biological or bio-inspired metal centers” for the 72nd Southeastern Regional Meeting of the ACS held in Birmingham, AL. Both Pritam and Dr. Wijeratne delivered research presentations at this symposium.

	November 2021 – Research presentations by Garrett Tolbert and Dr. Wijeratne at the 77th Southwestern Regional Meeting of the ACS held in Austin, TX