Melissa Ramirez
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🧪 Incoming Assistant Prof. @UMNChemistry Jan. 2025 l Postdoc Stoltz Lab @CaltechCCE | Ph.D. Garg & Houk Labs @UCLAChem
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Ecstatic to share that I’ll be starting the Ramirez laboratory in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities this January 2025! 🧪 🧪
@UMNChemistry
@UMNews
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Excited to share that I have been selected for the NIH K99/R00 MOSAIC Award!😃 Thank you to my mentors
@brianstoltz70
,
@houk1000
,
@GargLab
,
@molandergroup
& the institutions that have provided me w/ opportunity
@CaltechCCE
,
@uclachem
, &
@PennChemistry
. I am absolutely grateful!
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Excited to have been selected as a 2023 CAS Future Leader! I feel very honored to represent
@thestoltzgroup
,
@houk1000
,
@GargLab
, &
@molandergroup
. It truly takes a village, and I can’t wait to bring others up w/ me as my mentors have done for me.
Introducing the 2023
#CASFutureLeaders
! This group of elite Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars will join us in August to blaze a trail toward science leadership. Congratulations to our 2023 class!
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Had the opportunity to share my role as an organic chemist & my journey to Caltech as a Pasadenan @ the mayor’s 2024 State of the City Address.
@PasadenaGov
@Caltech
@CaltechCCE
@CaltechCCID
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📍For those attending ACS in SF this upcoming week: Please stop by my poster!😃 I will be presenting my postdoc work in
@thestoltzgroup
at the
@ACSorganic
Asymmetric Reactions & Syntheses Session on Sunday, 8/13 at 7–9 PM. Location: Hall F, South Bldg. - Moscone Center.
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A highlight of my week:
shared my PhD and postdoc research w/ the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa (
@UAM_Iztapalapa
), located in Mexico City, via Zoom this afternoon. 🧪 🇲🇽
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A privilege to serve through science, outreach, and mentorship.
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Looking forward to the CAS Future Leaders Program, which is taking place @ the CAS headquarters in a little over a week! 😃 Thanks
@petercarlton
&
@CASChemistry
for this incredible opportunity!
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This publication means so much to our community. It is especially meaningful to me as I step into the next phase of my career, navigate my journey, and open doors for others. Thank you
@joann_trejo
and all authors!
Hot off the press - our new commentary on "Early career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and solutions" Download for free until Dec 29, 2023. Please RT
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Lastly, gracias a mis papas, mi familia, y mis amistades. Soy Hija de imigrantes, de luchadores. No es facil, y no ha sido solo mi trabajo. Hay generaciones detras de mi. Si se puede, si se pudo. 🇲🇽
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The best surprise at NOS yesterday night: my undergrad advisor
@molandergroup
& PhD advisors
@houk1000
@GargLab
stopping by my poster together. :) Just missing
@brianstoltz70
! I am incredibly grateful. Gotta keep pushing, a step at a time!
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This was written in Jan/Feb & posted today. Thank you
@ASBMB
and
@NIH
for the support. A special thank you to my postdoc advisor
@brianstoltz70
& my MOSAIC mentor
@thesilvalab
.
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On 4/26, I will be visiting
@UCIChemistry
@UCIrvine
as a UCI Future Leaders Seminar Speaker! 👩🔬 I am incredibly excited to share my research & journey into science and to meet w/ faculty & students. Please attend if you are able to!
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📍Grateful to have been selected to participate in the
@UChicago
2023 Future Faculty Conference! 🧪👩🔬Excited to share my research and to meet students & faculty, including
@group_levin
@GBD_Lab
@chem_chair
@SASnyderLab
@anna_wuttig
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I visited
@NCState
@NCStateChem
for the NC State Building Future Faculty Program last month.👩🔬 Thank you to the program organizers for inviting us as well as
@ChemSynthBiol
,
@piercelab
, &
@TheLindsayLab
for hosting me. I am grateful for all your help & support!
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Very happy to be joining the Científico Latino team as GSMI Community Engagement Coordinator! ☺️
@cientificolatin
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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to show a diverse group of 8th grade students from McKinley Middle School around Schlinger & the Stoltz lab. These kids were taking AP Calculus & were curious about what organic chemists do!🧪🧪👩🔬👨🔬
@thestoltzgroup
@CaltechCCE
@CaltechCCE
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SoCal Organometallics Meeting
@UCRiverside
today & got to see an old friend! 😃
Overlapped w/
@Picazo
in the
@GargLab
but it had been a while! So exciting to see him at this stage, running his own group
@USCChemistry
🧪 🧪
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🧪 The
@UChicago
Future Faculty Conference was amazing! Thanks
@LevinChem
@kinglab_pchem
for organizing the conference,
@GBD_Lab
for meeting w/ me, &
@UChiChemistry
as a whole for hosting us!
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📍Excited to be participating in the 2023
@ChemistryMIT
Future Faculty Symposium! Looking forward to presenting my research & meeting w/ students + faculty including
@RJGilliard
@ChemicalBiology
@AlisonWendlandt
@BuchwildGroup
@johnsonchem
@Jamison_Group
@RDanheiser
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🧪 Excited to be training Difei (master’s student
@Cambridge_Uni
) & Sophia (undergrad
@UCBerkeley
) during my last summer
@Caltech
@CaltechCCE
!
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Today was the last day of my Research Exchange at
@gpggrp
@CarnegieMellon
@CMU_Chem
! 🧪 The last few weeks flew by. Thank you
@gabepgomes
&
@olexandr
for all the help, as well as
@DearLiliG
! Excited for what’s ahead.
Here’s a pic of me w/ some of the
@gpggrp
group members. 😊
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I met
@astro_watkins
today!! 👩🚀😃 It was an honor.
@uclachem
for PhD studies and
@Caltech
for the postdoc. Very empowering.
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My chem sis
@AriHunter_
& workout buddy
@cagan_da
were recognized this evening at the
@Caltech
Celebration of Excellence! 🎉🎉 Ari recieved the CCID Activist Scholar Award & David the IDEA Outreach & Education Award. So proud of them!!! 🥹🥹🥹
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Had the chance to catch up with Lucas, my mentee in
@thestoltzgroup
, during a quick stop in Boston this weekend! 🤗Lucas is completing
@NSF_CCAS
summer research w/
@cwcoley
@ChemistryMIT
this summer. So proud of Lucas & his dedication.
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Fortunate to be a part of the RUA Community Engagement Board!
We are excited to introduce a member of the RUA Community Engagement Board (CEB), which focuses on guiding RUA efforts to build community among the organization’s members.
@mramirez9409
is a first-generation, Mexican American college student and a member of the CEB.
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Made a quick trip to visit UCLA last week. It was very exciting getting updates from these! Always pushing forward.
@GargLab
@uclachem
#WomenInScience
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Visiting
@UCIChemistry
@UCIPhysSci
@UCIrvine
today!!!😃If you're on campus and available at 4 pm–please make it to my seminar!
@SacnasUCI
On 4/26, I will be visiting
@UCIChemistry
@UCIrvine
as a UCI Future Leaders Seminar Speaker! 👩🔬 I am incredibly excited to share my research & journey into science and to meet w/ faculty & students. Please attend if you are able to!
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Lunch w/
@AriHunter_
&
@JDerosaChem
before Joe’s departure from Caltech & starting
@derosalab
@BUChemistry
! We’re so excited for you Joe, you’re gonna do awesome!!! 🧪 🧪
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It was extra special experiencing the Symposium w/
@AntonioTinocoV
!!! So proud of us & our journeys as part of the Latinx community! 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽🧪🧬 🧪🧬
I also really enjoyed catching up with the great
@mramirez9409
! So glad we experienced this awesome symposium together!
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📍 Working on the development of new chemistry education resources in
@GargLab
was one of the highlights of grad school for me! Virtual Reality Chemistry 👾 & the Organic Coloring Book *en Español* 🖍️were two of my favorites
Congrats to all 28 members of our Molecular Educators Team for winning the
#HorizonPrize
by
@RoySocChem
for creating "innovative chemical education resources that benefit how students, children & the general public learn organic chemistry" Full story here:
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I had a great time visiting
@UCIrvine
yesterday as the Future Leaders Seminar speaker! Thank you
@Vy_Dong_Group
@UCIChemistry
for hosting me! 😃🤓
Thanks
@mramirez9409
for spending the day
@UCIChemistry
as the inaugural speaker in our Future Leaders Seminar—here’s Dr Rameriz with other future leaders 😀
@lissathechemist
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NSF Ascend Fellows Conference w/
@AriHunter_
this week! Had the chance to get lunch w/
@pengliu_group
today and
@gabepgomes
yesterday.
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A great time at the Houk Research Conference! Thanks to
@houk1000
for all your guidance & support–I am fortunate to be a part of the Houk family. And thanks to all the conference organizers, especially
@StevenLopez_neu
,
@Grayson_MN
, & Daniel Ess!
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Thank you
@ChemistryMIT
for hosting us! I had a great time meeting w/ students & faculty, and the Symposium was incredibly helpful in showing us how to prepare for faculty application season.
I had an amazing time at 2023 MIT Chemistry Future Faculty Symposium sharing my postdoctoral research, and meeting with and talking to all the great faculty, postdocs and graduate students at
@ChemistryMIT
! Special thank you to
@jillalty
for leading this great symposium!
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Looking forward to working w/ this team of amazing individuals and contributing to diversity initiatives at Caltech!
@CaltechCCE
@caltech
We are excited to announce the new board members for Caltech’s Diversity in Chemistry Initiative! We can’t wait to put on amazing programs and amplify the voices, actions and successes of underrepresented minorities in chemistry
@Caltech
! Read on to learn about each member
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NOS was a great time, especially presenting at the poster session! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and congrats to Aja, Garrett, and Ben 🎉
Congratulations to
@ACSorganic
#NOS2022
Sunday poster awardees: Aja Nicely (UT Austin), Garrett Toth-Williams (UC Davis), Melissa Ramirez (UCLA), and Ben Janda (Chapman University)
@houk1000
,
@GargLab
@shawshankrxn
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“…who we see thriving in the world teaches us how to see ourselves, how to think about our own value, how to dream about our futures.”
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6 am workout w/ the roomie
@AriHunter_
before the start of today’s Gordon Research Seminar events! 💪🏽
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Thank you
@CaltechCCE
,
@uclachem
, and
@PennChemistry
for providing me with opportunity throughout my academic journey! I cannot wait to open doors for others in this new chapter. What a privilege.
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My niece Camila met
@AriHunter_
at an outreach event today!!! 🫶🏽 I wasn’t there, but I still got these pics lol 🥹
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Moments when things come full circle–Had the opportunity to serve as the keynote speaker at the 51st Annual Pasadena Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast this past week.
@PasadenaGov
@FID_Pasadena
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A bit late, but here’s a photo from the last meet-up w/ some of my WAVE mentees in August. So proud of them!
@CaltechSFP
@CaltechCCID
@Caltech
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Very lucky to be mentoring Lucas this summer! Pictured here is Lucas working in the glovebox for the 1st time today:
Congratulations to Lucas Abounader on earning a 2022 John Stauffer SURF fellowship! We look forward to all the contributions you will make as a talented undergraduate researcher in our lab.
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Feliz dia de las madres, mamá. Estoy tan orgullosa de ti. Te quiero.
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Thanks for sharing your advice/insight on a career in academia,
@Vy_Dong_Group
! It further intensified my enthusiasm for starting my own research group in the near future. Thank you
@yang2biocat
,
@javier_read
, and
@thevanderwallab
for organizing a great
@ishc1967
conference!!
The future looks bright—great meeting
@yang2biocat
rising star in biocatalysis at UCSB and
@mramirez9409
who will be on the academic market next year!
@ishc1967
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Pics from day 2 of
#CASFutureLeaders
! :)
@RoxCoreas
@mallory_greener
@fiona_chembot
@sivanibaskaran
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Finally met them!! 🥳🤩🥰 I can see where Ari got her grit and big heart from 🥹 So lucky to be on this journey with you
@AriHunter_
!!
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A picture from when I received the news (during lunch @ ACS last week) 🥹
@Velazquez_Lab
,
@IvonneMFerrer
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I am beyond thrilled to share our group's first independent contribution as a preprint. We discovered an iron-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling and used it for disulfide bioconjugation, drug synthesis, and other applications! Find the preprint here:
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A great time having
@gutierrez_lab
on campus!! 😊
Professor Gutierrez (
@gutierrez_lab
) gave a great research talk
@CaltechCCE
today and met with students over coffee! Make sure you don't miss his seminar tomorrow (3/16 at 12 pm) focused on his path into science.
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Looking forward to hosting
@hanzyduzit
for the Diverse Minds Minds Seminar Series
@Caltech
next month!
@AriHunter_
and I are thrilled that we could make this happen!
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@Caltech
Presidential Postdocs met up to send off Doris (fellow) as she takes the next step in her career! 🎉✊
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“A lab built around uplifting others”
@Velazquez_Lab
an inspiration!
Jesús Velázquez
@Velazquez_La
built his lab at
@UCDavis
and
@UCDChem
around the mantra that empathy & scientific rigor can coexist. The lab’s design is inspired by the indelible imprint Velázquez’s mentors left on him:
#AggiePride
#AggieHeroes
#Chemistry
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Thanks
@AriHunter_
!! 🥹 We always manage to stay in the loop w/ one another despite the crunchtime that our postdocs are. I found my chemical sister (that’s a thing, right?!) as soon as you got here!! lol. So happy that I get to join you as a CAS Future Leader ♥️
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& Thank you to my parents. They gave me the tools to persevere, to get back up no matter how many times I fell down & to never forget we are all human. Their values keep me level-headed & help me remember that we are in this together; that not 1 person is worth more than another.
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Hunter Lab (
@AriHunter_
) & Ramirez Lab are definitely collaborating in the future!!! 🤩🤩 👩🏽🔬 👩🏻🔬
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Super exciting to have
@RJGilliard
on campus today!!
DICI is very lucky to have gotten some time on
@RJGilliard
’s schedule for a coffee hour before his joint OCS/IES Seminar today in
@CaltechCCE
. Thank you for the great advice over some delicious café de olla and pastries!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cyclic allenes!!!!! So proud of this team, congrats!!! 🥹
We are delighted to share our total synthesis of lissodendoric acid A using a strained cyclic allene.
@ScienceMagazine
Congrats to “Team Lisso”!
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@AriHunter_
this morning at the Inaugural Conference for Emerging Black Academics in STEM!! 🙌🏽 👀
@Caltech
@CaltechCCE
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Thanks for making it
@ko_polymer
& for all the support! I am very grateful! It was so special to see a
@uclachem
@CaltechCCE
friend in the crowd. 🤗
Great talk by Dr. Melissa Ramirez
@mramirez9409
at the
@ChemistryMIT
Future Faculty Symposium today. Search committees should be on a lookout in the near future!
@thestoltzgroup
@GargLab
@houk1000
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Congrats to my mentee in
@thestoltzgroup
, Lucas Abounader! 🎉 Lucas is an outstanding chemist, athlete (swimmer!), & overall individual. I mentored him last summer through the
@Caltech
SURF Program & had the best time!! Can’t wait to see what he achieves this summer w/
@cwcoley
!
We are happy to share our cohort of C-CAS Summer Undergraduate Research fellows! We are excited to learn with them this summer. Special shout out to
@Sigman_Lab
@Toste_Group
@gabepgomes
@cwcoley
@bobbypaton
and Abby Doyle for hosting these scholars.
#UndergradResearch
#NSFFunded
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& I was able to get dinner w/
@leticia_a_gomes
@saalgueroo
from
@nodecrashers
@NU_Chemistry
while stopping in Boston! 🍱 ☺️ Meeting up with them reminds me why I do what I do.
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Looking forward to speaking at this year's Young Researcher Conference @ Texas A&M, which is a major event for
@ADSE_national
! May is right around the corner–join us!
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I can’t wait to see how much
@Casuarez0429
continues to accomplish in grad school and beyond!Side note–our hoods are right next to each other in
@thestoltzgroup
#LatinasInChem
👩🏽🔬 She’s helped make
@CaltechCCE
feel more like home!
#HispanicHeritageMonthDICI
Next we have
@Casuarez0429
, a G2 in the
@thestoltzgroup
, and DICI's outreach coordinator!
Cami was born in Lima, Peru, and greatly cares about keeping that part of her identity...and one way she does that is by enjoying Peruvian chifa and ceviche!
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@AriHunter_
kicked off the SoCal Organometallics Meeting
@UCRiverside
this past weekend! Got to hear about her collaborative work through CSOE. That’s my best friend!! 🔥🔥
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Recently met my mentees from the WAVE Fellows Program
@Caltech
! 😃Leading a pod of 5 students (there’s a few more pictured here!) from historically-marginalized groups in science. It is a privilege to be able to support & guide them.
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My 1st Gordon Conference & making it there with my bestie
@AriHunter_
!! 🤗We will definitely be the early birds hitting the gym before breakfast😂
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Aww
@cesapo
! So great to finally meet you in person!! 🤗
I'm gonna start printing cool chemists selfies with the awesome people I meet at ACS and this one has to go first on that wall! So happy to finally meet
@mramirez9409
in person!
#CASFutureLeaders
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Fortunate to have
@AriHunter_
as a friend. You make
@CaltechCCE
feel more like home!! So so proud of you. I'm cheering you on, girl!
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Thank you to my advisors
@brianstoltz70
,
@houk1000
,
@GargLab
, &
@molandergroup
for all the guidance and support!
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memorable Monday yesterday catching up w/
@thederzzz
over lunch!😃 Evan was my postdoc mentor in
@GargLab
& helped shape me into the chemist I am today. forever grateful for his support.
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Like my dad says: “Hay la llevamos, de poquito a poquito”. ✊🏽♥️
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Woot woot so happy that this is being held
@Caltech
!! Looking forward to
@AriHunter_
’s talk!
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Looking forward to
@gutierrez_lab
's visit to Caltech! 😃
Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez (
@gutierrez_lab
) from Texas A&M University will be visiting Caltech 3/15 – 3/16 as a DICI and Organic Chemistry Seminar Speaker! We are so excited to have him!
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@AriHunter_
showing us how to put together a CV @ Day 1 of the YRC
@ADSE_national
! 🤩🤩 It’s always so exciting to hear about her experience working as a forensic chemist for the government (listen to the clip!) 🧪 🧪 🔥 🔥
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Thank you to
@ADSE_national
,
@CaltechDICI
,
@ResUniAlliance
,
@CaltechCTLO
,
@ucla_ocds
,
@cientificolatin
for providing me w/ community & reminding me of my purpose as a scientist, leader, and mentor. I look forward to creating opportunity for others as I move forward in my career.
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DEI Legislation Tracker
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The Young Researcher Conference
@TAMU
is this week! 👨🔬 I am thrilled to have helped put this together and to be attending. The title of my talk: "Curiosity and Persistence as Driving Forces for Interdisciplinary Research".
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An incredible person. Thanks for all you do, Doug! Happy Birthday! 🎉
Happy Birthday to our phenomenal faculty advisor Professor Doug Rees! Your kindness, care, and empathy on campus has impacted so many. Thank you, for not only being an ally, but more importantly, an advocate for us and so many others on
@Caltech
's campus.
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@AriHunter_
and I are speaking at this year’s YRC–Make sure to join us!!! 🥳 An updated flyer with a complete list of speakers is coming later this week.
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Thank you so much
@ResUniAlliance
! I know I will push forward with the organization’s mission of diversifying academia by starting my own research group and training the next generation of scientists. Lifting up those around me every step of the way!
Before we introduce our newest Community Engagement Board members, we want to thank the members who are leaving.
@mramirez9409
has been a cheerleader & advocate for RUA from the beginning and we appreciate everything she has done. Thank you Melissa!
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A great start to the weekend welcoming GSRI students to Caltech!
@CaltechDICI
@CaltechCCE
Today DICI hosted this year’s GSRI students for a Social at The Athenaeum! GSRI is one of the awesome resources at
@Caltech
that is designed to help incoming graduate students from historically marginalized and/or underserved groups thrive at Caltech! Have a great year everyone!
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Congrats
@AriHunter_
!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 🥹🥹🥹 Ari pushes those around her without a doubt. She challenges them to do better & to be better. Day in, day out. I can’t wait to see all that lies ahead for Ari & the Hunter lab. 💜
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🚨4th Year Graduate Students–Make sure to apply to this year's Graduate Research Symposium! I've only heard great things about it! I was selected to attend in 2020, but the pandemic hit soon after. I missed out (but you don't have to–just apply!).
We are delighted to announce the amazing speakers at the 2023
@ACSorganic
Graduate Research Symposium (GRS). 4th year graduate students: Apply now! Don't miss out on the opportunity to interact with participants from industry and academia!
#2023ACSGRS
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