Group Resources

Information for All Bowman/Stansbury Group Members

Sending an email to the group:

Email bowman-group@colorado.edu. This will reach all Bowman/Stansbury group members, including Chris and Jeff. If you sign up for an instrument for a large block of time and then realize you can't use it, please send an email to the group letting people know, so someone else can use it if they need it.

Instrument sign-ups:

Each instrument has a Google Calendar used for sign ups. Meagan Arguien (Meagan.Arguien@colorado.edu) BreAnne Neugebauer (Breanne.Neugebauer@colorado.edu) can be contacted to be put in touch with the lab member in charge of training for each piece of equipment. Please inform the group if a specific piece of equipment or instrument needs to be used for an extended length of time. 

Weekly group meeting:

Our group meeting is every Thursday at 11:30am in E1B11 for Spring 2024.  You need to make every effort to be there - do your best not to schedule any classes during that time. If there is a core required class that you absolutely can't get out of during that time, contact Sean (Sean.Keyser@colorado.edu), or the current person in charge of scheduling group meeting, to let him know before the semester starts, and we will try to adjust.

  • Every week at group meeting, one person will present their research and one person will present a current piece of literature. This rotates through all group members. If you get scheduled on a day when you have a conflict, try to find someone else that will swap their day with you.
  • When choosing a piece of literature to present, here are the rules:
    • Must have been published within the last year
    • Must be in a journal with impact factor 10 or higher
    • Your presentation should be 2-3 slides maximum
    • You want to choose something that you think will be interesting to the group at large, and suggest ways that the results of the paper might be helpful to us. Some typical journals we often use are: JACS, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Chemistry.

Weekly small group meetings:

Small group meetings rotate on Fridays 9:45-10:30am in C124 for Spring 2024. These are informal meetings to talk about any interesting results or related topics/questions you want to discuss with fellow group members and/or Chris. You should plan to go to the meetings that are related to your project. Additionally, you are welcome to attend any other meetings that interest you.

Weekly individual meetings:

See explanation in the “New Member To-Do List.” First and second year students should meet individually with Chris at least once every 2 weeks. Everyone else, at least once a month.

Conference travel:

  • If there is a conference you would like to attend, you need to clear it with Chris before submitting an abstract.
  • Contact Bre regarding travel authorization BEFORE making any travel arrangements.
  • is done either through Concur (available through the MyCUInfo website).
  • Procurement cards CANNOT be used for hotels, transportation, or other travel related expenses. You need to use your own credit card and then apply for reimbursement afterwards, so be sure to save your receipts.