Salvadoreño🇸🇻|🏳️🌈|he/él/그|Oberlin College Postdoc|ACS DIC Young Investigator ‘26|UMN PhD ‘25|CAS Future Leaders ‘24|Merck UCC ‘23|NSF GRFP ‘22|UCLA ‘20|
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23 Jan 2024
Beyond thrilled to have been accepted to the 2024 Institute for Future PUI Faculty at @LafCol !! Can’t wait to meet work with my cohort & the Lafayette chem dept in April! Feeling blessed & one step closer to Prof. Umanzor ☺️ as always, thank you to my village @UMNChemistry 🫶🏼
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Its really great to be seeing all of these NSF GRFP acceptances. That fellowship means so much to so many young scientists!
To those who didn't get it: be proud that you participated! I like to view rejection as direction, and sometimes we just dont win. On to the next one!
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24 Oct 2025
I highly encourage grad students and postdocs who wish to pursue a career at a primarily undergraduate institution to apply to the Institute for Future PUI Faculty at Lafayette College. It's a really great program! sites.lafayette.edu/puiinsti…
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18 Aug 2025
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is excited to welcome emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025. chemistry.ucla.edu/news/welc…
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29 Jun 2025
NYC is having an all-time run of hilarious mayors ngl
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held the door for an older white man. he turns to me, smiles bc he's mad proud of the knowledge he's about to drop, and says, "gracias."
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
19 Feb 2025
Congrats to our fearless leader @CortnieRoberts on being named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow!! Incredibly well deserved; we’re excited to see where this support takes our science next ✨
18 Feb 2025
🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/2025-F…
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23 Jan 2025
Congrats to Prof. Osvaldo Gutierrez on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) from Pres. Biden! The highest honor for early-career scientists & engineers. bit.ly/4htM2l0 @UCLA_CSRC
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1 Jan 2025
Congrats to the team @Seongboi @Sal_K_3 @FeliciaYu000 and our collaborators from the Boyn group @UMNChemistry on this awesome contribution to free aryne chemistry ✨
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25 Oct 2024
I highly recommend this program to anyone interested in PUI/teaching-focused faculty careers! My 2 weeks at Lafayette were absolutely amazing & incredibly transformative for my prof. development; I’d be happy to answer any questions ppl have about the experience ☺️ Go Pards!! 🫶🏼
24 Oct 2024
Calling all future chemistry faculty! The application for the Institute for Future PUI Faculty is now open! We are looking for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to participate in a 2-week immersive NSF-funded training program. sites.lafayette.edu/puiinsti… @NSF @LafCol
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17 Oct 2024
Team Phen had a ton of fun on our newest paper out now in @ACSCatalysis, using a combo of kinetics & data science to study the mechanism & origins of selectivity in a Pd-cat. aryne annulation! Congrats team!! 🎉 @ErinPlasek @DenmanBrylon @CortnieRoberts
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Another successful Canadian thanksgiving in the books! 🍗
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15 Oct 2024
Aww thanks Beza!! 🫶🏼 Been too busy to tweet about it but it’s been an amazing experience so far getting to teach my own class this semester!! ☺️ Prof. Umanzor came true earlier than I thought it would hehe
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7 Oct 2024
Melissa Ramirez uses a cutting-edge approach that combines computations and experiments to develop catalytic reactions. She’s gearing up to start her own lab at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Read more in C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers issue: cen.acs.org/education/outrea…
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
21 Aug 2024
Tomorrow at 9:50 AM MDT, Bluebird Ballroom 2C!
Join me for my talk, 'Unraveling the Multiplexing Capabilities of Raman Imaging with SERS Nanoparticles Towards Precision Medicine,' at #ACSFall2024
Thank you, #CASFutureLeaders program and @CASChemistry, for this opportunity! 💫
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Day 3 of the #CASFutureLeaders program was a page-turner! Also got to explore @TheBookLoftGV, one of the nation’s largest indie bookstores—what a treat! 📚✨
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
14 Aug 2024
Night 2 of #CASFutureLeaders2024 brought Columbus rooftop (and not-so-rooftop) adventures
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
16 Aug 2024
Karaoke with #CASFutureLeaders and @drdre4000 was an absolute blast!!
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ALT CAS Future Leaders 2024 and Dr Andre Isaacs at karaoke
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16 Aug 2024
Got to duet Aaliyah’s More Than a Woman with @drdre4000 last night 😆 it’s always a great time when he’s in town! & as you can imagine, the joint slay was gag-worthy 🪭 remix coming soon 💅🏼
16 Aug 2024
I did not have Dance Dance Revolution-esque line dancing and late night karaoke with @drdre4000, @gomobel, and other #CASFutureLeaders on my August To Do list. But it was absolutely unforgettable!
If only @petercarlton hadn't bailed...
#unofficialphotographer #momGV
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
12 Aug 2024
Big fan of the @storycollider team and their lessons on the art and science of storytelling. Thank you, Christine, Kent, and Diego! #CASFutureLeaders
ALT A group photo of the 2024 CAS Future Leaders with Kent, Diego, and Christine at the center
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Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. retweeted
13 Aug 2024
#CASFutureLeaders adventures continued tonight at @COSI! Whoever thought to let a bunch of nerds loose at the science museum after dark has my heart ❤️
ALT COSI sign with a pendulum knocking down marbles in front of it
ALT A few Future Leaders collaborating to make a CAS sign at COSI using colored pegs on a light-up board
ALT Group photo of some of the 2024 CAS Future Leaders
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