- Alexander Jackson has finished summer project and moved to Indonasia for exchange program.
- Dr. Leland Gee earned his PhD and joined Solomon's group for his post-doctoral work.
- Cramer group hosted the annual conference: Elkus Ranch IV - Another Day of 'Science in the Country'
- Adam Jenkins and Charles Tapio joined the group as summer graduate students
- Our lab hosts high school students Gregory Xie and William Chan for the summer
- Justin Okamoto joined the group as a summer undergraduate student
- Cindy Pham and Leland Gee became PhD candidates.
- Lars Lauterbach returned to Lenz group to continue his post-doctoral work.
- Patrick Nack-Lehman earned his Masters degree in August 2015 and departed the group.
What we do
The Cramer group uses spectroscopic methods to characterize the molecular and electronic structure of metal sites in bioinorganic systems, and environmental samples. Some recent organic systems we are querying are the metal clusters in Nitrogenase and Hydrogenase.
How We Do It
We use synchotron spectroscopies such as x-ray absorption (EXAFS), resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) and nuclear methods (NRVS), these metheds are complemented by campus measurements such as FT-IR, Raman, and femtosecond pump-probe techniques.
Who Does What
The Cramer Research Group comprises a diverse collection of chemists, biochemists, engineers, and physicists, and each are needed to tackle the daunting tasking of synchrotron based spectroscopic experiments.