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May 2023
Top: Sam Bottum, Corban Murphey, Owen Courtney
Bottom: Samuel Van Amberg, Cullen Walsh, Andre Orr, Sarah Sutton, Alicia Bryan, Andrew Christy, Shi He, Rob Castaneda, Jin-Sung Park, Seun Oyeteade, Kelly White, Sam Litvin, Lorenzo Serafin, Jung Lee, Jim Cahoon

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Prof. Jim Cahoon

Prof. Jim Cahoon received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Philosophy from the College of William and Mary in 2003 and then moved to the University of California-Berkeley to pursue a PhD in Physical Chemistry, studying the femtosecond light-driven reactions of molecules in solution with Prof. Charles Harris. In 2009, he moved to Harvard University for a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Charles Lieber, where he worked to develop nanostructured photovoltaic devices. In 2011, Jim started his faculty career in the Department of Chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill, being promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2022. He has received awards including a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Sloan Research Fellowship, Cottrell Scholar Award, and UNC Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Research Core Facilities for the College of Arts and Science, UNC site director of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network, and thrust leader for the DOE Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels.

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