Prof. Zahra Fakhraai wins the 2019 American Physical Society’s John H. Dillon Medal “For exceptional investigations of surface effects in polymer glasses and amyloid aggregation.” Congratulations!
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SAS Dean’s Global Inquiries Fund
Zahra Fakhraai receives a grant from the Dean’s Global Inquiries Fund at the School of Arts and Sciences to study “Active Coating Technologies (ACT) to Mitigate the Global Water Crisis”. This project is in collaboration with Russell Composto, Daeyeon Lee, and Kristin Field.
More information about this grant can be found here.
Sathya wins a number of awards at the Intel ISEF competition
Sathya Edamadaka wins an impressive number of awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
These awards include:
Best of Category (Energy: Physical) – $5,000
Grand Award: First Place – $3,000
Special Award: United States Navy, Office of Naval Research – $10,000
Special Award: Qatar Foundation – First award – $1,000
Special Award: MIT – Lincoln Laboratory, Ceres Connection – Lifetime Naming of an Asteroid
Special Award: IEEE Foundation – President’s Scholarship Award – $10,000
Congratulations Sathya for this amazing performance!
Murray wins the 2018 Hypercube award from Penn Chemistry
Murray Skolnick receives the 2018 Hypercube award for his research in computational chemistry. Congratulations Murray!
Zahra is Selected as a Penn Fellow
Prof. Zahra Fakhraai has been selected as a member of the tenth cohort of the Penn Fellows program. Congratulations!
Ethan and Gabe’s Paper Published
Ethan Glor and Gabriel Angrand’s paper “Using deposition rate to increase the thermal and kinetic stability of vapor-deposited hole transport layer glasses via a simple sublimation apparatus” was published at The Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations Gabe and Ethan!
Yue’s Work Was Featured in Phys.Org
Gabriel Receives Two Awards from the Chemistry Department
Gabriel Angrand receives the ACS Analytical Chemistry Prize and Hypercube Award for his undergraduate research and achievements. Congratulations Gabe!
Bohan Receives the Joel Barrish Fellowship
Bohan Li receives the Joel Barrish Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry to pursue summer research in the lab. Congratulations Bohan!
Yue Wins the Padden Award
Yue Zhang won the American Physical Society’s Padden Award. Congratulations Yue!
“The Frank J. Padden, Jr. Award, consisting of a certificate and appropriate recognition, honors a graduate student for “Excellence in Polymer Physics Research.” ”
