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Please note that the Friend lab is no longer accepting new members, as Prof. Friend has assumed the role of President of the Kavli Foundation ( more information).

The Kavli Foundation has selected Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, as its next president. Dr. Friend will assume this post January 1, 2021. Cynthia Friend named incoming president of the Kavli...

A profile of Prof. Cynthia Friend accompanied her inaugural article in PNAS as a member of the National Academy of Science in September. The profile follows Friend from cow-pasture golf and car repair in her early life in southern Nebraska, through her...

Innovative research projects were selected among more than 110 applications to receive the support of the Green Chemistry for Life project, which was created by UNESCO and PhosAgro in close cooperation with the International Union of Pure and Applied...

U.S. funds innovative Harvard-based efforts to reduce consumption. Professor Cynthia Friend heads an effort to develop new methods to reduce energy consumption in the production of industrial chemicals, which now accounts for an astounding 25 percent of...

Friend Lab Alumna Professor Kara Stowers shares the joys and tribulations of her new role in this month's Chemical and Engineering News: New Chemistry Professors Share Their Experiences Especially in today’s extremely competitive job market, landing a...

Chemistry Views article Understanding Noble Metal Catalysis highlights our recent article Ag/Au Mixed Sites Promote Oxidative Coupling of Methanol on the Alloy Surface.

Marcus Weldon Friend Group Ph.D graduate appointed President of Alccatel-Bell Labs Press Release: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/press/2013/002935

Friend Group Alum Young Shin Jun has been named Director of Graduate Studies at the Washington University Department of Engineering. Check out her group page here: http://encl.engineering.wustl.edu/ Take a video tour of her group here: https://www.youtube...

Congratulations to former Friend Group Grad Student Bingjun Xu, for his appointment to the faculty of University of Delaware! See his profile here: https://www.che.udel.edu/directory/facultyprofile.html?id=31434 Learn more about his new research group...