Congratulations to Professor Rigoberto Hernandez (Johns Hopkins University), who won the 2020 IMPACT Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), which you can read about here. The IMPACT Award “recognizes the work of an outstanding Cottrell Scholar who has had a national impact in science through leadership and service activities.”
Congratulations to Professor Rigoberto Hernandez, who has been admitted as a Fellow into The Royal Society of Chemistry; read more in the press release here.
Professor Vivian Feng (Augsburg University) was selected as a Fulbright scholar for a four month teaching/research position at the Graz Technical University in Austria in 2020-2021. You can read more about the position here. Congratulations Vivian!
Arielle Mensch’s mansucript, entitled “Preferential interactions of primary amine-terminated quantum dots with membrane domain boundaries and lipid rafts revealed with nanometer resolution,” has been published by Environmental Science: Nano. Read the online publication here. Arielle C. Mensch, Eric S. Melby, Elizabeth D. Laudadio, Isabel U. Foreman-Ortiz, Yongqian Zhang, Alice Dohnalkova, Dehong Hu, Joel A. Pedersen, Robert J. Hamers and Galya Orr, Environmental Science: Nano, 2020, 7, 149-161.
Zachary Jones’ mansucript, entitled “Selective Imaging of Diamond Nanoparticles within Complex Matrices using Magnetically Induced Fluorescence Contrast,” has been published in Environmental Science: Nano. Read the online publication here. Zachary R. Jones, Nicholas J. Niemuth, Margaret E. Robinson, Olga A. Shenderova, Rebecca D. Klaper and Robert J. Hamers, Environmental Science: Nano, 2020, 7, 525-534.
Joseph Buchman’s mansucript, entitled “Nickel enrichment of next-generation NMC nanomaterials alters material stability, causing unexpected dissolution behavior and observed toxicity to S. oneidensis MR-1 and D. magna,” has been published by Environmental Science: Nano. Read the online publication here. Joseph T. Buchman, Evan A. Bennett, Chenyu Wang, Ali Abbaspour Tamijani, Joseph Bennett, Blake Hudson, Curtis Green, Peter Clement, Bo Zhi, Austin H. Henke, Elizabeth Laudadio, Sara E. Mason, Robert Hamers, Rebecca Klaper and Christy Haynes, Environmental Science: Nano, 2020, 7, 571-587.
Hyunho Kang (Haynes group, University of Minnesota) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, entitled “Design of Silicon Dioxide Nanomaterials and Understanding their Colloidal Behaviors for Sensing and Biological Applications,” on December 19. He has accepted a position with Merck.
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Caudill, who defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Interactions of Nanoparticles and Polymers with Bacterial and Eukaryotic Cell Surface Structures.” Emily is also currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lake Superior State University.
A CSN manuscript, entitled “Metalloid and metal oxide nanoparticles suppress Sudden Death Syndrome of soybean,” has been accepted by Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Read the online publication here. Cristian Perez, Roberto De La Torre Roche, Nubia Zuverza-Mena, Chuanxin Ma, Yu Shen, Jason C. White, Edson Pozza, Adélia Pozza and Wade Elmer, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2019, Available Online.
CSN Alumnus Merve Dogangun (Ph.D. 2018, Geiger group) accepted a position in the Thin Films group at Intel. Congratulations Merve!
