Congratulations to Kelly Zhang on being named a recipient of this year’s Paul Bender Memorial Award by the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry! Kelly is being recognized particularly for her CSN work investigating the morphology and dynamics of polymer-wrapped nanoparticles using most of the alphabet soup of NMR techniques, which you can read in her Analytical Chemistry paper linked here.
Congratulations to Meghan Cahill (Haynes group), an undergraduate researcher co-mentored by Natalie Hudson-Smith and Peter Clement, on being chosen as a winner of the Thomas DuBruil Undergraduate Research Award for 2018!
Leslie Sigmon (Fairbrother group) has been selected as an awardee for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! Peter Clement (Haynes group) and Naomi Dalchand (Geiger group) were also recognized with honorable mentions. Congratulations to Leslie, Peter, and Naomi! Kudos as well to everyone who submitted a GRFP proposal – they require a lot of hard work and thought, and those of us who have served on review committees can attest that there are many more outstanding proposals than awards for this extremely competitive program, so many excellent proposals are not funded.
Congratulations to Dr. Tian (Autumn) Qiu (with Ph.D. advisor Christy Haynes, left picture) for successfully defending her thesis, titled “Bacterial Response to Nanoparticles at the Molecular Level”! She will be departing in a couple months to begin a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois. Autumn celebrated with her CSN graduation gift (right picture), a bright green laser pointer inscribed with “Congratulations Dr. Tian (Autumn) Qiu! From the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.” We know she will put this laser pointer to good use presenting all her exciting future research results!
CSN student members Demetrius Finley and Donald White (Curry group) won the Graduate Oral Presentation and Graduate Poster Presentation awards, respectively, at the JARS Research Conference hosed on the campus of Tuskegee University on March 16, 2018. JARS is a Joint Annual Research Symposium hosted by Sigma Xi on the campus of Tuskegee University.
Alicia McGeachy (Geiger group) was nominated for induction into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Alicia also received a Conservation and Scientific Research Award from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Congratulations, Alicia!
Joel Pedersen was appointed to the Editorial Board of Environmental Science: Nano as an Associate Editor. For more information, see this ES Nano Blog post: Introducing our New Associate Editor.
Associate Director Christy Haynes has co-guest edited a virtual issue of Analytical Chemistry highlighting selected women analytical chemists, including an editorial that features OXIDE data and recognizes some challenges for women chemists. The special issue also featured papers from several CSN contributors, including a 2015 review paper from Erin Carlson’s group and Autumn Qiu’s (Haynes group) 2017 Growth Based Viability Assay paper that included 9 female undergraduate, graduate, and faculty contributors from the CSN! You can find the virtual issue here and Christy’s editorial here.
Tian (Autumn) Qiu (Haynes group) has been chosen as a 2018 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congratulations, Autumn!
Donyue Liang’s (Cui group) publication in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, entitled “Analysis of conformational properties of amine ligands at the gold/water interface with QM, MM and QM/MM simulations,” is featured on the list of “2018 PCCP Hot Articles.” Congratulations Dongyue his coauthors, Jiewei Hong, Dong Fang, Joe Bennett, Sara Mason, Bob Hamers, and Qiang Cui!
