News

Professor Christy Haynes (University of Minnesota) won the Theophilus Redwood Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry “for interdisciplinary work at the interface of analytical, biological, and materials chemistry and skills for passionately and effectively communicating science to broad audiences.” Christy was featured by the Royal Society here, and in a University of Minnesota press release here.

Congratulations to Christy Haynes, who has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, which will help fund her sabbatical in Spain next year. The Guggenheim Foundation website states that “Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

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.