The Ragogna Group celebrate the end of 2024 at Fleetway. Everyone enjoyed bowling, Secret Santa and Pool!!! Paul was too good at bowling, and ran (bowl?) circles around his students. Kodee loves bowling!!! Jeanette was BAD at playing both pool and bowling! Jordan teaching her how to play pool couldn't help her.
Jeanette defends her dissertation! Congrats Jeanette, and good luck on your next journey. Jeanette's editor's note: it's kind of funny talking about myself in 3rd person.
Justin and Jordan shows off the QCM for the C2MCI tour, and Justin and Josh compete for America's Next Top Model with their special photoshoot. That's right show off your Smize!!!
Paul got a caricature drawing at the AVS 70th International Symposium & Exhibition!
Josh goes over Crystal Field Theory while being a potato head.
Alex defends his dissertation! Congrats Alex!!!
Jessica comes back for her convocation! It was nice to see her again!!!
Happy Halloween!!!!!
Mat front and center, ready for group meeting!
Jeanette's Editor's note: inhales EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Horribly sliced pizza. sigh
Justin and Jordan does Helenski. Disclaimer: I did not fully understand this reference before I typed this. But it's still funny after the fact.
Jordan presents an oral presentation and Justin presents a poster. Justin was a recipient of a poster award.
A get together with the Barry & Crudden Groups!!!
The Ragogna Group participates in the Department of Chemistry's social event at Fleetway. Jeanette shows how much she loves bowling, she's still bad at bowling, and the Ragogna Group plays glow in the dark mini golf. Jeanette also was bad at mini golfing. Justin (not in the picture) was a pro and came in 1st!!!
Paul is in his Daddy WarBucks era (has always been)!! The Ragogna Group gets a new benchtop ball mill for some cool mechanochemistry!!!
Beautiful artwork of the Ragogna Group from 2018 - 2024.
We had two defenses this month!! Congrats to John and Jessica! We'll miss you both and can't wait to see what you both will do next!!!!!!
The Crew and the Gillies goes to karaoke to celebrate Monica's defense and farewell party. We'll miss you Monica and congrats!!!
The Ragogna Group cleans BGS 2006 Glovebox 1. Disgusting work!!!
Serving post-lab realness with goggles on, coffee in hand, and legs out because science waits for no one, but style sure can.
This summer there was a series of glovebox tutorials. Here's the Crew doing a catalyst change for the BGS 2004 glovebox.
Blaine cutting delicious cake. We say goodbye to Blaine. Blaine is on his way to Dalhousie for a PostDoc position. Good luck Blaine!!! Josh was clearly devastated to see Blaine go.
J-W comes back for his convocation!
It's quenching season!!!
Justin and Jessica hosts the Crew at their place. We played alot of fun games together like UNO and Pictionary. We had some winners and losers. Jeff won the "Guess what's in the box" game, he touched his way to victory!!!
The Group head to Queen's University for the C2MCI annual conference. On the way we stopped by the Big Apple! Justin, Jordan, and Marco present posters! Jordan was also thanked for helping with organizing the conference!
The Crew kick off their busy summer with Science Rendezvous!
Photo taken by Justin of the Northern lights!!!
The Ragogna Group enjoying the eclipse together. Here's a photo of it!
The Ragogna Group attends and help cohost Area Selective Deposition (ASD) 2024 conference in Montreal. There was alot sight seeing, get togethers and Justin finds his new favourite drink.
Erika wins an oral presentation award for her 4491 thesis project at SOUSCC (hosted by Western University)!
Cover art created by Justin for his Chemistry of Materials manuscript, which was selected as the journal's featured cover. Congratulations, Justin!
Justin and Jordan working with their baby, J-Tool for their TikTok reels for C2MCI!!
Jessica in front of her fume hood, clearly excited about chemistry and filming a TikTok for C2MCI!
Ragogna Group Photo Winter 2024
Jessica and Jeff present their 9567 seminars to the chemistry department! Jeff walks away with the Lipson-Baines award. Way to go Jeff!!!!
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