This summer we bid a sad goodbye to postdoc Brian Majestic, visiting scientist Tsuyoshi Komiya and undergraduate Bryan Rolfe, and welcomed postdoc Amisha Poret-Peterson and lab technician Carina Arrua. Brian left us for a position at Northern Arizona University in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, while Bryan has continued on to pursue a doctorate in Chemical Engineering at Cornell. He hopes to pursue the topic of his NSF fellowship proposal, nanofluidic batteries. Komiya returns to his position as an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Amisha joins us from the University of Louisville, where she worked Professor Martin Klotz on nitrification genes in methane-oxidizing bacteria. Carina comes to us with a Masters from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina, where she used multivariate statistics to authenticate wines from several regions in Argentina. She will be assisting users in the clean lab and with measurements on the quadrupole ICP-MS in the Keck lab. Gabi Montanez is still at ASU, but is focusing on completing her Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) program in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Engineering.