Joseph Buchman’s manuscript, entitled “Coating iron oxide nanoparticles with mesoporous silica reduces their interaction and impact on S. oneidensis MR-1,” has been accepted by Chemosphere. Read the online publication here. Joseph T. Buchman, Thomas Pho, Rebeca S. Rodriguez, Z. Vivian Feng and Christy L. Haynes, Chemosphere, 2019, 124511.
Joseph Bennett’s and Blake Hudson’s manuscript, entitled “A systematic determination of hubbard U using the GBRV ultrasoft pseudopotential set,” has been accepted by Computational Materials Science. Read the online publication here. Joseph W. Bennett, Blake G. Hudson, Irene K. Metz, Dongyue Liang, Sidney Spurgeon, Qiang Cui and Sara E. Mason, Computational Materials Science, 2019, 170, 109137.
Diamond Jones, a fourth-year graduate student in the Mason lab, was recently awarded a Graduate Diversity Fellowship from the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. Congratulations Diamond!
Congratulations to Stephanie Mitchell (Carlson group), who received a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, which is given to “the University’s most accomplished Ph.D. candidates” by the University of Minnesota! Read a News Release featuring Stephanie here.
Congratulations to Tana O’Keefe (Haynes group) for being chosen as a trainee on the University of Minnesota Biotechnology Training Grant! As a trainee, Tana will have the opportunity to push the collaborative boundaries of her project and make new industrial connections.
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Tollefson (Carlson group), who accepted a faculty position at the University of Puget Sound!
Aiesha L. Ethridge’s manuscript, entitled “Facile benchtop reactor design using dendrimer-templating technology for the fabrication of polyethyleneimine-coated CuO nanoparticles on the gram scale,” has been accepted by Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A. Read the online publication here. Aiesha L. Ethridge, Miranda J. Gallagher, Natalie V. Hudson-Smith, Demetrius Finley, Ariful Ahsan, D. Howard Fairbrother, Christy L. Haynes, Robert J. Hamers and Michael L. Curry, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2019, 37 (4), 041402.
Congratulations to Dr. Gene Chong (Hernandez group) for successfully defending his PhD thesis, entitled “Bottom-up simulations reveal mechanisms of nanoparticle surface layering and corona formation,” on June 12! Gene will be joining Prof. Alex MacKerell’s group at the University of Maryland as a postdoc.
Natalie V. Hudson-Smith’s manuscript, entitled “A Macroscale Model for Hands-On Activities Demonstrating Transmission Electron Microscopy,” has been accepted by the Journal of Chemical Education. Read the online publication here. Natalie V. Hudson-Smith, Meghan S. Cahill, Nathan D. Klein, Miriam O. P. Krause and Christy L. Haynes, Journal of Chemical Education, 2019, Available Online.
Joseph Buchman’s manuscript, entitled “Understanding Nanoparticle Toxicity Mechanisms To Inform Redesign Strategies To Reduce Environmental Impact,” has been accepted by Accounts of Chemical Research. Read the online publication here. Joseph T. Buchman, Natalie V. Hudson-Smith, Kaitlin M. Landy and Christy L. Haynes, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019, Available Online.
