PhD graduate student Thomas Ugras, from the Robinson group in MSE, has won the prestigious Webb graduate fellowship from The Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC). As a KIC graduate fellow, Thomas plans to develop a platform that will enable accurate detection of electron spin filtering by chiral nanomaterials with a state-of-the-art very low energy electron diffraction (VLEED) detector. This project and the technology developed throughout will create tools to unlock deeper insight into chiral spin-selective materials for spintronic applications. He will use the new tool to characterize the spin filtering efficiency of chiral magic sized nanocluster films that the Robinson group has been developing.
Yuan Frank Yao has won the “BioTools top poster prize” at the 18th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy at NYU in July. His poster was titled: “Extracting Pure Circular Dichroism from... Read more about Yuan Frank Yao wins top poster prize at the 2022 International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy
MSE graduate student Konrad Hedderick co-chairs the Biomineralization Gordon Research Seminar taking place Aug. 13-14 in Spain. Read more about MSE student co-chairs Biomineralization Gordon Research Conference Seminar
Graduate student Sabrina Li was recognized for leading the Academic Strike for Black Lives that came about as a response to the murder of George Floyd, among other efforts. Read more about Sabrina Li Receives 2022 Graduate Diversity & Inclusion Award
