External Grants

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, 2018-2021, UR.
Program title: “Development of Fe pincer complexes for CO2 reduction.”

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, 2013-2015, UNI.
Program title: “Synthesis of Cationic Nickel(II) Complexes Containing Hemilabile Arms for use as Alkene Hydrogenation Catalysts.”

Research Corporation, 2012-2014.
Program title: “New Ni(II) and Pd(II) Complexes Containing Hemilabile Pendent Arene Groups to Catalyze the Polymerization of Olefins and Polar Monomers.”

National Science Foundation MRI, 2011, Co-PI with chemistry faculty.
Program title: “Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer for Undergraduate Research and Training.”

Recent Internal Grants – TCNJ

Support of Scholarly Activities (SOSA) award, 2018-2020. Program title: “Development of Sustainable and Cost-effective Earth-Abundant Catalysts for Chemical Production.”

Sabbatical award, 2017-2018. Program title: “Base Metal Catalysis: Developing More Sustainable Methods to Produce the World Supply of Chemicals.”

Mentored Undergraduate Research Experience (MUSE) award, Summer 2017. Program title: “New Air and Water Stable Iridium Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation: How Do They Operate under Base-Free Conditions?”