The second preprint of the Khoury Lab is up on arxiv! Postdoc HuiFei Zhai showed how mixed-valent Ce disrupts magnetic order in CeFe2Ga8. Check it out:

arxiv.org/abs/2511.04894

A wonderful crystal my graduate student Jacob Fritsky grew. Look at those faces!

Our first paper from the lab is officially published! Glad to finally see this out. Check out Jacob Fritsky’s work and stay tuned for more 👀

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In this manuscript, we show how preferential crystallographic occupancy can act as a design principle to tune different magnetic phases. Check it out!

arxiv.org/abs/2507.13243

The first Khoury Lab preprint is officially online! This is my first paper as corresponding author, and my graduate student Jacob’s first first author paper.

The Khoury Lab went bowling! We had a friendly competition with the Trovitch and Earley Groups in a joint outing.

Our outreach at the Arizona Science Center has been featured in ASU News! We developed solid state chemistry demonstrations for people all throughout the Phoenix area. Check it out:

news.asu.edu/b/20250604-g...

Genuinely alarming development in the NSF FY26 budget request to Congress. It proposes to end the NSF CAREER program entirely. If this program ends, junior researchers will have limited options for funding. Please contact your elected officials to let them know #savensf

I had a fantastic time at the Quantum Foundry workshop at UC Santa Barbara. Thank you to Ram Seshadri and Stephen Wilson for the invite. I gave a talk and my student Jacob was able to present a poster on his work.

I think about this quote all the time.

Everyone who cares about public health should read this incredibly informative essay (by an NIH employee) to understand the game plan for the next few months—how the cuts & rules stopping NIH from spending $ right now could let them destroy NIH’s budget for a decade

We need to make this well known

The Khoury Lab is educating the public in materials chemistry! We’re at the learning lab in the Arizona Science Center doing Solid-State Chemistry demonstrations.

Multiple milestones for the Khoury Lab this week for our undergrads! Marie Byrne defended her honors thesis, and Rohan Bulusu was recognized as the ASU nominee for the ACS Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

A milestone for the Khoury Lab! Congrats to 2nd year graduate student Jacob Fritsky for passing his comprehensive exam with flying colors 🎉🥳👏

Writing a grant is like a rollercoaster because you feel the excitement of a fun and interesting idea coming together, but the fear that other people won’t feel the same way.

Amidst all the uncertainty lately, this is genuinely a relief.

fedscoop.com/nsf-says-its...

I’m excited to host Josh Goldberger from The Ohio State University for our ASU SMS Seminar! @asu-sms.bsky.social

Anyone doing basics science knows that we're barely making ends meet with the grants, particularly if your primarily nsf funded. The budget hasn't increased with student and postdoc salary (primarily cost of grants). Meeting it 1/3 kills all science everywhere

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Excellence in scientific research is what actually made America great. We all have a responsibility to oppose this. The NSF should have a higher budget and more personnel, not less.

I feel like I use calendar invites exponentially more since I became a prof.

This is so cool. I wonder if we can do signs like this for inorganic and solid state chemistry too. There’s no reason we can’t use signs for mirror planes, screw axes, or inversion centers to make them easier for hard-of-hearing people to understand.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/the...

I just want to be able to do my job with the normal stressors, not all of this added uncertainty too.

Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

I’m excited to host Prof. Joe Subotnik of Princeton University as part of our @asu-sms.bsky.social seminar series!