February 5, 2011
Dr. Ming Su has had a paper selected as a cover in the journal Advanced Materials (Volume 20, Number 7) titled “Mass productions of vertically aligned extremely long metallic micro/nanowires using fiber drawing nanomanufacturing.”
February 5, 2011
The NanoScience Technology Center is proud to announce that three of its faculty members received the prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) award in 2008. The CAREER recipients are Drs. Saiful Khondaker (joint Physics appointment), Andre Gesquiere (joint Chemistry appointment), and Lei Zhai (joint Chemistry appointment). This is a tremendous accomplishment…
February 5, 2011
AMPAC Associat Professor Dr. Yongho Sohn and two of his students, Mr. Emmanuel Perez (Doctoral Candidate) and Ms. Ashley Ewh (UG Research assistant), were selected to attend INL Advanced Test Reactor National User Facility Summer Workshop with full financial support from INL. This is a week-long workshop where attendees learn about the test reactor, and…
February 5, 2011
We are happy to announce that Dr. Michael Leuenberger (joint Physics appointment) has received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). The Young Faculty Award was created to offer a venue by which research ideas proposed by…
February 5, 2011
Paul Stokes has been selected as one of the 60 participants from the United States to attend the upcoming Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting for Physics in Germany. Paul is a graduate student in the Department of Physics and is a student of Dr. Saiful Khondaker, who has a joint faculty appointment at the NanoScience Technology…
February 5, 2011
Congratulations to Satyender Goel for receiving the Graduate Student Excellence Award-Chemical Computing Group from the 236th American Chemical Society’s National conference to be held in Philadelphia this August. See www.acscomp.org/Awards/ccg.html for more information.
February 5, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. J. Manuel Perez (joint Chemistry appointment) who just received word that his National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 project titled An integrated NMR/magnetic nanosensor system for detection of bacteria and toxins will be awarded. This NIH/NIGMS R01 will provide over $800,000 over the four years of this project to address this crucial…
February 5, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Qun “Treen” Huo for her new cover article in the July 7th, 2008 edition of ChemComm titled “Surface modification of gold nanorods through a place exchange reaction inside an ionic exchange resin.”
February 5, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Artem Masunov (joint NSTC & Chemistry faculty) for winning the American Chemical Society’s Hewlett Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for the abstract titled: The Comparison of Sum over States (SOS) and Coupled Electronic Oscillator (CEO) formalisms used for computational design of Two Photon Absorbing materials with Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. This award…
February 5, 2011
AMPAC Assistant Professor Dr. Christine Klemenz was elected a Member of the Commission of Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials (CCGCM) of the International Union of Crystallography. Klemenz was also nominated as member of the program committee for the Solid State Laser Technology XVIII Conference, which will take place January 2009 in San Jose, CA…