Omar is awarded Roy and Diana Vagelos Science Challenge Award, 2019-2022
Omar Ibrahim is awarded the Roy and Diana Vagelos Science Challenge Award, 2019-2022. Congratulations!
Aixi is awarded Hochstrasser Fellowship for 2019
Aixi Zhang is awarded the Hochstrasser Fellowship for 2019. Congratulations!
Yueli is an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardee
Yueli Chen is an award recipient of the 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congratulations!
Zahra wins the American Physical Society’s Dillon medal
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!
Haonan is awarded Douty Fellowship for 2018-2019 academic year
Haonan is awarded Douty Fellowship for 2018-2019 academic year. Congratulations!
Paper co-authored by Haonan published!
The paper “Effect of Physical Nanoconfinement on the Viscosity of Unentangled Polymers during Capillary Rise Infiltration” co-authored by Haonan was published on Macromolecules. Congratulations!
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.
Haonan’s paper published on ACS Nano
Haonan’s paper, “Dramatic Increase in Polymer Glass Transition Temperature under Extreme Nanoconfinement in Weakly-Interacting Nanoparticle Films“, was published on ACS Nano. Congratulations!
Sathya wins a number of awards at the Intel ISEF competition
Murray wins the 2018 Hypercube award from Penn Chemistry
Murray Skolnick receives the 2018 Hypercube award for his research in computational chemistry. Congratulations Murray!