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Aug. 15^th, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Shuxiao Li for completing her defense and becoming the second doctor out of the Bour lab! Shuxiao has always been a bright presence in our lab and we are so happy she is sticking around Wayne State!

May. 16^th, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Anthony Porath for completing his defense and becoming the first doctor out of the Bour lab! Anthony has been a cornerstone our lab and he will be greatly missed!

Dec. 30^th, 2024

Congratulations to the Bour Lab for receiving the 5 year NIH R35 MIRA grant to support their work on new chemical tools for facilitating high throughput organic synthesis!

Dec. 12^th, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. James Bour for receiving the 2024 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award!

Jul. 16^th, 2024

Congratulations to Peyton for successfully defending her undergraduate honor thesis!

Apr. 22^th, 2024

Yay! Congratulations Professor Bour!

Congratulations to Shuxiao Li for being awarded 2023-2024 Schaap-Rumble Research Fellowship, and John Izang for Dr. Cal Stevens Memorial Scholarship! Congratulations to Matthew Maliskey for getting 2024-2025 Uzoma Azuh Endowed Memorial Research Scholarship in Chemistry and Dr. Bacon Ke Annual Scholarship!

Apr. 9^th, 2024

Peyton McCarley is presenting at National Conference of Undergraduate Research 2024 (NCUR 2024)! Nice job Peyton!

Mar. 18^th, 2024

Matthew Maliskey and Anthony Porath represented the Bour lab at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans. Matthew gave a poster presentation, and Anthony gave and moderated a seminar. Great work everyone!

Feb. 9^th, 2024

Congratulations to Shuxiao Li for completing her 4^th year talk!

Jan. 24^th, 2023

Congratulations to Anthony Porath for receiving a travel and summer dissertation award, and to Shuxiao Li for being awarded a summer dissertation award!

Dec. 20^th, 2023

Chemistry cookies decoration!

Dec. 5^th, 2023

Welcome to Fathima Rifka Abdul Rauf joining the group as a graduate student!

Nov. 18^th, 2023

Hats off to Anthony Porath on successfully completing his 4^th year presentation! Anthony is our first graduate student to pass their 4^th year talk and he did an exceptional job!

Oct. 26^th, 2023

Pumpkin carving!

Sep. 27^th, 2023

New members in Bour Lab ^-^ A pipetting robot and a GC-MS!

June 4^th, 2023

Congratulations to Peyton McCarley for receiving the David and Beverly Rorabacher Research award!

May 5^th, 2023

Congratulations to Shuxiao Li for being awarded a Rumble fellowship!

Apr. 25^th, 2023

STEM day at WSU!

Mar. 29^th, 2023

Congratulations to Prof. James Bour the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award!

Mar. 28^th, 2023

Shuxiao Li, representing the Bour Lab at the ACS meeting in Indianapolis.

Mar. 17^th, 2023

Outreach Event – Neinas Chemistry Day!

Dec. 9^th, 2022

Welcome John Izang and Kjersti Oberle to our group!

Oct. 31^st, 2022

Happy Halloween! It was fun to have everybody dressing like James!