This past year has been filled with excitement as we recognize and celebrate the many accomplishments of our lab!

Grant Awards:

- The Ravanfar Lab has been awarded a prestigious ACS Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant to support our research on Photocatalytic Pathways for C–H Bond Activation in Heme-containing Proteins. We’re honored by this recognition and grateful for the support from ACS PRF as we continue to explore innovative directions in bioinorganic chemistry.

​Awards and Honors:

- Congratulations, Sid! Sid was awarded financial support through Texas Tech TrUE Scholars Undergraduate program as a Fall 2025 Associate Research Scholar (ARS) on his research in Ravanfar Lab.

- Raheleh was awarded a plaque from Faculty Mentorship Academy in 2025.

- Raheleh was awarded a medallion from President's STEM Mentoring Academy.

- Raheleh was recognized as an Honored Mentor by Phi Beta Kappa in 2025.

- Raheleh was accepted in Faculty Mentoring Academy in Fall 2024.

- Raheleh was accepted in President's STEM Mentoring Academy in Fall 2024.

New Members:

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome our talented undergraduates, Quinn, Tristan, and Samantha! We are happy to have you in our lab. Fall 2025

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Rahul, our first postdoc! We are happy to have you in our lab. Summer 2025

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Fereshte! We are happy to have you in the lab. Summer 2025

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Gloria! We are happy to have you in the lab. Summer 2025

* Welcome back to the lab, Oliver! We are happy to have you in the lab. Spring 2025

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Sid! We are happy to have you in the lab. Fall 2025

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Ehsan and Josh! We are happy to have you in the lab. Fall 2024

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome Carlie and Chino! We are happy to have you in the lab. Fall 2024

* The Ravanfar Group is excited to welcome our first undergrad/grad students, Konner, Oliver, Danny, Edrie, Dru, and Josh! Fall 2023/Spring 2024

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Our Students' Next Adventures

* Congratulations to Oliver on his well-deserved acceptance into the Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Class of 2029! We can’t wait to see your first-author paper from our lab!

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* Congratulations to Carlie on her acceptance to McGovern Medical School in Houston! Wishing you great success on this exciting journey!

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* Congratulations to Konnor on his acceptance to the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and the School of Community Medicine! Wishing you all the best on this incredible journey!

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Exploration is our game, chemistry is our playground, and discovery is just another way of saying we had a great time!

* Raheleh has been invited to present a talk in ACS 76th Southeastern and 81st Southwest Regional Meeting, October 2025.

*  Raheleh has been invited to present a talk at 8th Biot Conference on Poromechanics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. October 2025

*  Raheleh has been invited to present a talk at MIT, Boston, MA. August 2025

* Ehsan and Josh have been accepted to present in ACS Fall 2025, Washington, DC.
* Several oral and poster presentations at various research conferences, workshops, and seminars:

​- Ehsan and Josh presented at CMPR Symposium, Spring 2025. Good job guys!

- Raheleh presented a talk at ACS, Spring 2025.

- Raheleh was invited to present a preview talk and presented a poster at Metals in Biology Conference, Gordon Research Conference, Spring 2025.

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- Josh presented at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SWRM), Waco, TX., Fall 2024.

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- Josh presented at Fall 2024 Poster Session, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, TTU, Fall 2024

- Raheleh presented a talk at ACS, Spring 2024.

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- Raheleh was invited to present a talk in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Spring 2024

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- Raheleh presented at Metals in Biology Conference, Gordon Research Conference, Spring 2024.

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- Raheleh was invited to present a talk at the Center for Membrane Protein Research Symposium, Fall 2023

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* Ravanfar lab hosted an annual Family STEM Night, offering K-12 students and their families a hands-on opportunity to explore Bioinorganic Chemistry and engage directly with the PI’s research group. Fall 2024.

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