CSN faculty member Cathy Murphy, a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been named a 2017 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). Dr. Murphy was chosen “For pioneering work on the synthesis of plasmonic metal nanostructures and investigation of their effects on biological systems.” Congratulations, Cathy!
CSN graduate student Donald White (Curry group) won 1st Place in the Nanoscience Oral Presentation Session at the Emerging Research National Conference on STEM hosted in Washington, DC. The title of his presentation was “A Facile Method for the Suspension of Nanocellulose.” Congratulations, Donald!
Congratulations to two CSN graduate students on recent awards. First, Alicia McGeachy (Geiger group), won the 2017 Northwestern University Graduate School Student Diversity Award. Second, Tian “Autumn” Qiu (Haynes group) won a Mary Haga Travel Award from the Xi Chapter of Graduate Women in Science to support her travel to the 253rd ACS National meeting in San Francisco, where she presented a talk entitled “Growth-based Bacterial Viability (GBV) assay for interference-free and high-throughput nanotoxicity screening.”
CSN faculty member Rigoberto Hernandez has won the 2017 Herty Medal, awarded by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Hernandez was honored “for transforming our view of chemical dynamics in non-equilibrium environments, his creative approaches to improving diversity within the chemistry profession, and his leadership at the local and national levels of the American Chemical Society.” Congratulations, Rigoberto!
Student Jo Machesky, who participated in the CSN’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program last summer, has received a Conference Travel Grant from Northwestern University to attend the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco this April. The title of Jo’s presentation is “Alteration of Membrane Compositional Asymmetry by LiCoO2 Nanosheets.” Congratulations, Jo!
Graduate student Liz Laudadio’s Valentine’s Day blog post, “What Does Nanotechnology Have to Do with Chocolate?” was recognized as a ScienceSeeker Editor’s Pick for Feb 6-12. Congratulations, Liz!
CSN faculty member Howard Fairbrother has been named as the new chair of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. As their website says, the Colloid and Surface Chemistry division has “one of the most active Divisions in the American Chemical Society with approximately 2500 members throughout the world.” Congratulations, Howard!
Donald White, a CSN student in Dr. Mike Curry‘s group at Tuskegee University, has been selected for a travel award to present at the 2017 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM. He will present his work entitled “Facile Method of Dispersing CNF’s via VS-I within a Polymer Matrix” at the March 2017 meeting in Washington, DC. Congratulations, Donald!
CSN faculty member Mike Curry and graduate student Donald White were again featured in the news for their recent discovery of a way to dissolve cellulose in organic solvents, this time in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (“Tuskegee University Researchers Design Strong Biodegradable Plastics”) and Controlled Environments magazine (“Nanotechnology Leads to Breakthrough Plastics Discovery”).
Hyo Park, a student in the CSN’s Research Experience for Veterans program last summer, has won a Presentation Award in the Engineering, Physics and Mathematics scientific discipline for Nanotechnology at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). As mentioned in a previous news item, Hyo had won a travel award to the conference to present his poster titled “Quantum Dot Chemical Stability and their Interactions with Zebrafish Embryos.” Congratulations, Hyo!
