{"id":2820,"date":"2026-01-30T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:16","slug":"athena-boose-joins-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/2026\/01\/30\/athena-boose-joins-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena Boose Joins the Group!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to have Athena as the newest undergraduate member of our research group. She will contribute to our efforts to better understand covalent interactions in lanthanide and actinide systems, with a focus on evaluating orbital overlap and orbital energy matching effects in metal\u2013ligand bonding. We are happy to have Athena on board and look forward to her growth as a researcher and the valuable contributions she will make to our team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-792x940.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2821\" width=\"372\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-792x940.jpeg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-396x470.jpeg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-768x912.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-1294x1536.jpeg 1294w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-1725x2048.jpeg 1725w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-labs\/uploads\/sites\/3458\/2026\/01\/headshot-167x198.jpeg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to have Athena as the newest undergraduate member of our research group. She will contribute to our efforts to better understand covalent interactions in lanthanide and actinide systems, with a focus on evaluating orbital overlap and orbital energy matching effects in metal\u2013ligand bonding. We are happy to have Athena on board and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/ivan-popov-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}