Archived News
5/31/22: We are excited for summer research to start again! This is the first summer we have experienced students returning for a second (normal) summer in the lab: we're looking forward to Kathryn and Jolene helping lead our research this summer. We're also lucky to have lab technician Kaia sticking around for the summer, and CS students Grant and Diego joining the lab to continue our efforts in lab automation. So much science to do!
5/22/22: Congratulations to Emily on her graduation! Emily wrote an impressive thesis, particularly given the challenges of starting in the lab just a couple weeks before the pandemic started. Her contributions to the lab will be felt for years to come. Emily is off to UCSD to pursue a PhD in chemistry!
Congrats to Noah and Max on their graduation as well, who made significant advances to our lab automation research thrust.
4/2/22: In collaboration with the Owen Group at Columbia University (among many other amazing collaborators), Mark is a co-author on two papers published in RSC's Chemical Science describing the nucleation and growth processes of semiconducting metal sulfide and selenide nanocrystals. Check out the Publications page for links to these (open-source!) papers.
3/24/22: Emily, Kaia, and Mark just returned from the ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Emily & Kaia presented their work at poster sessions and Mark presented at the inaugural PUNC symposium. Mark was priviledged to help organize the symposium with wonderful PUNC colleagues.
11/1/21: Mark is a co-author on a perspective article in ACS Nanoscience Au describing PUNC: the Primarily Undergraduate Nanoscience Cooperative, an organization that our lab has been a member of since its founding.
8/25/21: Even after dealing with temperature records, broken building HVAC, and major electrical outages, summer research was a huge success! We are particularly pround of Kathryn and Noah presenting to a national network of nanoscience peers and faculty during our PUNC group meetings. We made significant progress on all of our projects and are looking forward to a school year back in-person.
6/7/21: Summer research is starting! We're thrilled to have research students back on campus without as many restrictions thanks to a vaccine mandate, and are looking forward to Kathryn, Jolene, Emily, Michael, & Noah pushing our science forward!
6/1/21: In addition to our recent PRF grant, we're thrilled to annouce that the lab has also received a Natural Sciences Grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to support our studies in single-source precursors for ZnS synthesis.
5/23/21: Congratulations to Kaia, Soren, & Mitchell on graduating! We couldn't be more proud of all you accomplished in these trying times and wish you the best in your future endevours: Soren is starting a Ph.D. at UW and Mitchell is enrolling in UW's Material Science and Engineering graduate program.
1/25/21: We're excited to get back into lab as the spring semester starts, and we're particularly thrilled to welcome two new lab members: Jolene & Kathryn to the group!
11/5/20: It's recruiting season! The last of our first group members, Kaia and Soren, along with Mitchell, will be graduating this spring (!) and we are seeking students to keep their projects going. We had a great time at the STEM poster session today and look forward to meeting students interested in joining the group later this month.
10/30/20: The lab has been working on developing a statement of shared values and we're happy to share it here.
10/27/20: The lab is awarded our first external grant from the ACS PRF! This will support our efforts to understand how reaction parameters influence the phase of inorganic nanomaterials. The grant will pay the summer salary of 1-2 research students for the next three summers and other costs of running the lab. Congratulations to the lab members who made this possible!
8/24/20: The start of the fall semester and an academic year unlike any other. We're looking forward to doing research this semester in whatever forms it takes.
7/6/20: Our paper with the Mauck (Kenyon College), Tisdale (MIT), and Stupp (Northwestern) labs is published in Nature Chemistry: congrats to James and Katie on an excellent contribution to the perovskite field!
6/1/20: Summer research starts! We'll be primarily working online and are sure to miss the lab, but we're excited to make progress on our research nonetheless.
5/1/20: Summer research funding announced: Emily, Kaia, Michael, Mitchel, & Soren all received Perry awards to support their research this summer.
11/10/19: Soren, Jack, and Mark attend the Murdock College Science Research Conference. Soren & Jack presented posters on their work!