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Banruo Li, Kexing Xiao and Marcin Kazmierczak, first year graduate students, join the group.
Banruo Li, a 2018 graduate of Nanjing University, is from Taiyuan, China. He is working on stabilization of active iron catalysts in metal organic frameworks. Kexing, a 2018 graduate of Qingdao University of Science & Technology, earned her master’s degree at University of Akron. Marcin is from the port city of Szczecin, Poland. He completed his undergraduate study at Albion College, and he spent over a year conducting medicinal chemistry research at GlaxoSmithKline in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.