{"id":3320,"date":"2018-10-12T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/?page_id=3320"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:45:17","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div id=\"metaslider-id-3721\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-93-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-3721 ml-slider ms-theme-simply-dark nav-hidden\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"Home Slideshow\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_3721\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_3721\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-5411 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-5411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-scaled.jpg\" class=\"slider-3721 slide-5411\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Image (16)\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 36.176470588235%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/08\/Image-16-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>ResearchFest Oral Presenation winners Lan Mi (You Group), Ryan Lu (Thayumanavan group), Cristina (Rotello Group), and Benjamin Adams (DuChene group)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-5349 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"slide-5349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-scaled.jpg\" class=\"slider-3721 slide-5349\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Image (4)\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 36.176470588235%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/elements.chem.umass.edu\/thaigroup\/files\/2025\/05\/Image-4-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"caption-wrap\"><div class=\"caption\"><div>Congratulations Shuai and Steph on your graduation! 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