Inorganic Chemistry and Spectroscopy
We are a teaching-focused group at Cal Poly Pomona with the aim for undergraduate and masters students to contribute to peer-reviewed research and small molecule activation while learning a variety of inorganic chemistry techniques including air-free synthesis, spectroscopy, crystallography, and computations. All are welcome here, regardless of race, disability, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. Our research laboratory has options for both in-person and remote research, and group meetings are either hybrid or over Zoom. Contact us if you're interested in doing research.
Group News
Jan. 2025 - Congrats to Dr. Stieber on being awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring! (Award Announcement link) (CPP News Article link) (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin News Article link)
Nov. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Stieber and Dr. Blair on being awarded a collaborative CSU EAGER grant for zeolite synthesis!
Aug. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Marr on being awarded the ACS Postdoc Leadership in Mentoring Award!
Aug. 2024 - Congrats to Ethan Chavarin on being awarded an ACS Travel Grant!
Aug. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Stieber on becoming a Full Professor!
Aug. 2024 - Welcome to a new postdoc, Dr. Eric Lopes!
Aug. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Marr and Dr. Stieber for being awarded a $150,000 CSU ARI grant!
Jul. 2024 - Congrats to Master's student Aaron Gaynes for being awarded the ARI-NEXT gen fellowship!
Jun. 2024 - Welcome to a new postdoc, Dr. Moisés Bravo!
Jun. 2024 - Welcome to a new postdoc, Dr. Ana Garcia Alvarez!
Apr. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Marr for being awarded a $10,000 RSCA grant!
Apr. 2024 - Congrats to Dr. Stieber for being awarded a $297,885 NSF RUI grant!
Mar. 2024 - Welcome to a new postdoc, Dr. Benjamin Goka!
Feb. 2024 - Congrats to Frances Paredes for being awarded a STEM-NET Fellowship!
Aug. 2023 - Welcome to a new postdoc, Dr. Zoe Marr!
Aug. 2023 - Congrats to Romualda Aquino for receiving a $10,000 CSUPERB grant!
Aug. 2023 - Congrats to Ethan Chavarin, Zachary Carrillo, and Soroush Azizi for receiving LSAMP or SPIRES fellowships!
Jun. 2023 - Congrats to Dr. Andressa Antonini Bertolazzo on her new job as a tenure track faculty at Weber State University!
Jun. 2023 -Congrats to Demi Ayala on passing her Master's defense!
Jun. 2023 - Congrats to Nidia Ibarra and Alyssa Tran for receiving LSAMP Fellowships!
May 2023 - Congrats to the 7 graduates from our group! BS degrees for Caitlyn, Mei, Sage, and Neil! MS degrees for Christian, Carlos, and Zachary!
Apr. 2023 - Congrats to Ethan, Gaby, and Nidia for being awarded REU summer fellowships!
Feb. 2023 - Ethan Chavarin was featured on "My favorite queer chemist" podcast! https://open.spotify.com/show/3Y6kehdyYgyhKz0RYuyPUh
Dec. 2022 - Congrats to Briana for graduating with a BS!
Sept. 2022 - Dr. Andressa Antonini Bertolazzo joins the group as a PLUTO/STARS postdoctoral fellow, and STARS students Alyssa Tran and Nidia Ibarra join the group. Welcome!
Sept. 2022 - Congrats to Sage for being awarded Research Distinction!
Aug. 2022 - Dr. Stieber is part of team that was awarded a Dept. of Energy (DoE) grant to create the "Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle (C4)"
Aug. 2022 - Congrats to Mei for winning the Poster Award at the SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium (UC Irvine)!
Jul. 2022 - Congrats to Justin for securing a job as a High School Chemistry teacher at Ruben S Ayala High School in Chino Hills!
Mar. 2022 - Nicole Avila presents her work at the ACS Conference in San Diego!
Jan. 2022 - STARS students Hellen Marin and Dinh Ho, and Master's student Christian LeRue join the group. Welcome!
Nov. 2021 - Dr. Stieber is one of 8 faculty selected for the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! (link)
Oct. 2021 - Nicole Avila wins the inorganic chemistry award for her poster at the SACNAS conference! Great job Nicole! (link)
Oct. 2021 - Dr. Stieber is part of a team to receive a $5 million grant from the Department of Education for, "STARS (Student Success and Transfer Articulation through Research and Support Services – An HSI STEM Transformation Project)." See PolyCentric article highlighting this work! (link)
Oct. 2021 - We are now a platinum certified Bronco Green Lab! (link) See the PolyCentric article about us! (link)
Aug. 2021 - Congratulations to Kevin Liang for successfully defending his Master's thesis!
Jun. 2021 - Congratulations to Justin Cortez for winning 1st place in the California State University Student Research Competition!!
May. 2021 - Congratulations to Brenda Henriquez for successfully defending her Master's thesis!
May. 2021 - Congratulations to Alexis Hoxie, Elisa Olivas, Adrian Torres, and Zijie Zhang for graduating with a BS in Chemistry! Congratulations to Evan Bonnand for graduating with a BS in Biology!
Apr. 2021 - Congratulations to Dr. Stieber for being awarded the Provost's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activities!
Jan. 2021 - Our lab was awarded a grant from the CSU Agricultural Research Institute (ARI)!
Dec. 2020 - Congratulations to Emily Thompson and Carlos Gutierrez for graduating with a BS in Chemistry!
Jun. 2020 - Congratulations to Karen Juarez for graduating with a BS in Chemistry!
Apr. 2020 - Congratulations to Jacob Brannon for successfully defending his Master's thesis!
Apr. 2020 - Alumnus Justin Cortez was featured in the College of Science Magazine! (link)
Mar. 2020 - Congratulations to Brenda Henriquez for being selected for a DAAD research grant!
Nov. 2019 - We were featured in the College of Science newsletter. (link)
Aug. 2019 - Congratulations to Adrian Torres for being selected as an LSAMP Fellow!
Jun. 2019 - Congratulations to Zijie Zhang for being selected as an NSF SPIRES Fellow!
Jun. 2019 - Congratulations to Emily Thompson and Alexis Hoxie for being selected as LSAMP Fellows!
Apr. 2019 - Dr. Stieber receives NSF CAREER award! (Link) (Poly Post article) (Press Release) (News article) (College Newsletter)
Apr. 2019 - Check out the NSF XSEDE news highlight for Erica Hummel's paper! (Link)
Apr. 2019 - Congratulations to Briana Arreaga for being selected for the RISE program!
Apr. 2019 - Congratulations to Zijie Zhang for receiving the Valspar Award!
Apr. 2019 - Undergraduates Phan Phu, Beverly Stretch and Zijie Zhang receive research distinction awards!
Jan. 2019 - Congratulations to undergraduate Phan Phu on her JACS paper! (Link)
Jan. 2019 - Congratulations to Master's candidate Erica Hummel on her published paper! (Link)
Nov. 2018 - Congratulations to Zijie Zhang for being selected as a McNair Scholar!
Oct. 2018 - Congratulations to undergraduate Beverly Stretch on her first published structure and to Master's candidate Jacob Brannon for officially being a crystallographer! (Link)
Oct. 2018 - Congratulations to Jacob Brannon on receiving a MENTORES/PPOHA Grant!
Sept. 2018 - Congratulations to Briana Arreaga on an LSAMP Fellowship!
Sept. 2018 - Undergraduates Carlos and Zijie publish a paper! (Link)
Jun. 2018 - Jonathan Stoffel graduates with a BS in Chemistry and starts a Ph.D. at Notre Dame!
May 22, 2018 - Congratulations to Tiffany Lopez on successfully defending her Master's thesis!
Feb. 20, 2018 - Congratulations to Tiffany Lopez on receiving a MENTORES/PPOHA Grant!
Feb. 16, 2018 - Check out the local news story about our new single crystal X-ray diffractometer by InlandEmpire.US (Link)
Feb. 15, 2018 - A successful grand opening event for the Cal Poly Pomona Crystallography Co-op! Read the campus news story here (Link)
Jan. 2018 - Congrats to Hector Alarcon for landing a job at Ecolab!
Sept. 2017 - We were awarded a $599,077 grant for a single crystal X-ray diffractometer from the Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI) Equipment/Instrumentation Grant under contract #W911NF-17-1-0537.
