February 5, 2011
Yue Zhao, a Ph.D. student of AMPAC Associate Professor Dr. Jiyu Fang who graduated in Fall 2007 was been named as a recipient of the 2007 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. The award recognizes students across all research-based doctoral degree fields in 31 countries. Awardees are selected on academic merit and research…
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…
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…
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…
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.”
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.
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…
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.”
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…
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…