Casey Massena, Asia Riel, George Neuhaus, and Dan Decato publish our first lab mauscript, "Solution and Solid-Phase Halogen and C–H Hydrogen Bonding to Perrhenate," in Chemical Communications.

Exploiting halogen and C-H hydrogen bonds to target the medically and environmentally important perrhenate anion is an exciting strategy. The intricate balance between halogen and hydrogen bonding in both the solid state and solution is represented by two crystal structures competing for the perrhenate anion. This contest is set on Flathead Lake, Montana, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi river and remnant of the ancient glacial Lake Missoula.

Prototype 3D printed crystal structures have arrived in Montana.

The new X-ray diffractometer collects it's 50th data set.

SpectrUM chemistry camp gets a workshop on crystals and X-ray diffraction.

The 2014 American Chemical Society NORM meeting was a great success in Missoula. In the organic symposium we had outstanding talks from the likes of Julius Rebek Jr., Amar Flood and Darren Johnson among others.

The "Crystallography for chemists" workshop with Chuck Campana from Bruker was held at UM with attendees from UM, Montana State University, Boise State Univeristy and University of Idaho.

Asia Riel completes outreach with native kids in eastern Montana.

Daniel Decato attends the 2014 Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop in Vancouver, B.C.

Nick Wageling is awarded a CBSD research fellowship and successfuly defends his dissertation proposal.

Professor Orion Berryman gives the Keynote lecture at the Montana Spring ACS meeeting in Helena, MT.

Our new dual source small molecule X-ray diffractometer is installed and running.

Nick Wageling passes his divisional exam, and Casey Massena his preliminary exams.