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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Congratulations Dr. Lejla Čamdžić and Dr. Sewon Oh for successfully defending your dissertations!

Princeton University Department of Chemistry

Congratulations Amory for earningThe Norman G. and Elizabeth Brink Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry!

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Princeton University Office of Communications

Congratulations to Erik for being selected as Princeton’s class of 2025 Valedictorian! We are so proud of you!

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Every other year, the Marion Milligan Mason Fund is award to early-career women researchers in the chemical sciences to help further advance their research program.

Erin was awarded along side Grace Han, PhD., Michelle Calabrese, PhD., and Jessica Lamb, PhD.

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Hosted by Clotilde Tagnon and Lejla Camdzic

Polymers Unchained, Podcast Ep. 1

In episode 1, our hosts Clotilde and Lejla jump right in to the basics of polymer chemistry, defining some basic terms which we will carry forward. We then begin to introduce the first plastics in the Resin Identification Codes, which detail the most common types of plastics.

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Bayer Foundation

Every year, the Bayer Foundation awards early career scientists in the fields of Biology, Chemistry, Data Science, and Medical Science with the Early Excellence in Science Award.

Erin was awarded with the Chemistry Award in 2023, and was celebrated at a ceremony in Leverkusen, Germany in February 2024. Check out the following video highlighting the awardees, featuring clips from our lab.

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Wendy Plump

Princeton University
Department of Chemistry

Erin Stache, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and one of its newest faculty members, has been awarded funding for next-generation STEM leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program.

Stache is one of 93 early-career scientists from across the country to receive the prestigious award, which carries funding of $875K for her lab across the next five years.

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Interview By Aidan Looby

Under The Scope, Podcast Ep. 45

Join us for a fun and wide-ranging interview of Professor Erin Stache by University of Houston chemistry graduate student, Aidan Looby.

Aidan’s Under The Scope podcast provides student researchers and faculty a platform to discuss their research in a digestible and accessible fashion. Interviewees discuss the importance of their research and its impact within the field and out in the wider world.

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Wendy Plump

Princeton University
Department of Chemistry

Using photothermal energy to advance chemical recycling, the Stache Lab announces a depolymerization method that relies on heat generated by nanoparticles to affect a broad level of spatial and temporal control.

In research published this week, the team activated carbon quantum dots, which they introduced into bulk polymers, with LED light. Upon irradiation, the nanoparticles generated localized thermal gradients capable of depolymerizing certain commercial plastics – in which only the portion of the material proximate to the nanoparticles is unzipped.

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By Wendy Plump

Princeton University
Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome Erin Stache as assistant professor. Stache joins Princeton Chemistry from her position as assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. She will open her lab here in the catalysis/synthesis subfield with a focus on photothermal catalysis.

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