Congratulations to former undergraduate researcher Julia Dressel (currently at Stanford with Waymouth Group) on the publication of her work on Ni-catalyzed hydrogen evolution, catalyzed by a molecular complex, in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers! Mechanistic and computational studies detail the important interactions between the Ni complex and the proton donor, which shift the effective catalytic potential under operating conditions. This manuscript appeared as a part of Frontiers Emerging Investigators Series.