Myles Drance

The Institute for Future PUI Faculty – at Lafayette College

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/

24.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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!
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05.09.2025 19:07 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Oh dang! Double advisor awards!

19.08.2025 01:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ACS announces 2026 national award winners The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

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!

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18.08.2025 20:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ACS Board approves 80 new American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grants The spring 2025 grants total $8,630,000 in researcher investments

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

27.06.2025 22:42 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

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!

13.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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!

13.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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...

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....

26.11.2024 17:57 — 👍 53    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Black and white cat sitting on my shoulder

He looks like my JoJo!

20.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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!

05.06.2024 20:52 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0