Wendy Plump Princeton UniversityDepartment of Chemistry Erin Stache, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and one of its newest faculty members, has been awarded funding for next-generation STEM leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Stache is one of 93 early-career scientists from across the…

Interview By Aidan Looby Under The Scope, Podcast Ep. 45 Join us for a fun and wide-ranging interview of Professor Erin Stache by University of Houston chemistry graduate student, Aidan Looby. Aidan’s Under The Scope podcast provides student researchers and faculty a platform to discuss their research in a digestible and accessible fashion. Interviewees discuss…

Wendy Plump Princeton UniversityDepartment of Chemistry Using photothermal energy to advance chemical recycling, the Stache Lab announces a depolymerization method that relies on heat generated by nanoparticles to affect a broad level of spatial and temporal control. In research published this week, the team activated carbon quantum dots, which they introduced into bulk polymers, with…

By Wendy Plump Princeton UniversityDepartment of Chemistry The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome Erin Stache as assistant professor. Stache joins Princeton Chemistry from her position as assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. She will open her lab here in the catalysis/synthesis subfield with a focus on…