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Myles Drance

@mdrance.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Vassar College | Organometallic & Main-Group Chemist | He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 | Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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/puiinstitute/
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The Institute for Future PUI Faculty – at Lafayette College
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Vassar Chemistry Department is looking for a full-time (full benefits!) lecturer in organic chemistry. The position has a renewable 3-year contract offering significant stability in these unstable times. Please spread the word far and wide! vassar.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vassar...
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Lecturer in Chemistry
Department Chemistry Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Decisions co...
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Oh dang! Double advisor awards!
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Congrats to this year’s ACS awardees with a special shoutout to my former advisor, Josh Figueroa, for receiving the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry!! I look forward to celebrating at ACS Atlanta in the spring! cen.acs.org/people/award...
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ACS announces 2026 national award winners
The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
My first independent grant is being funded thanks to @acs.org #PRF!! Excited to continue training bright @vassar.bsky.social undergraduates in our pursuit of alkane functionalization. Best job ever!! #PUI #SLAC
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ACS Board approves 80 new American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grants
The spring 2025 grants total $8,630,000 in researcher investments
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sincere thanks to my colleague Alison Spodek Keimowitz and my student Sophia Lynch for organizing. It was a fantastic restart to our chemistry department seminar series after a long hiatus!
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A belated thank you to my friend and former labmate Brandon Barnett @barnettlabur.bsky.social for meeting with Vassar students and faculty last week to share some of his group’s exciting work!
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Accounts of Chemical Research on our work on transition metal hydricity is finally out! Thanks to GS (soon to be Dr.) Andrew Cypcar who put in a tremendous amount of work to get it finished! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Controlling Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction at Transition Metal Hydrides
ConspectusFuel-forming reactions such as the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and CO2 reduction (CO2R) are vital to transitioning to a carbon-neutral economy. The equivalent oxidation reactions are a...
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
He looks like my JoJo!
Black and white cat sitting on my shoulder
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Myles Drance @mdrance.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
I’m super excited to introduce the first members of the Drance Lab, Sophia Lynch (‘25) and Junhyeok Park (‘27), supported by the Undergraduate Research Summer Internship #URSI @Vassar. Can’t wait to teach these rising stars the beauty of air-free chemistry!
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