A big congratulations to Laura on receiving the Pchem Undergraduate Fellowship! The fellowship will allow her to continue her research this summer on the thermal annealing of squaraine thin films, so she can understand how the changing intermolecular orientations affect the electronic structure and dynamics of these potential solar cell materials. Great job, Laura – this is really well deserved!

I’m tremendously honored to receive the A.J. Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching this year! I’m really grateful to work at a place with fantastic students and for a department, college, and university that cares so deeply about our educational mission. Read about all of the teaching award winners here.

Many thanks to Prof. Gabriela Schlau-Cohen for the invitation to give a pchem seminar at MIT today. It was great to meet some of the faculty there, and also to see one of our lab alumna, Madi Scott!

Zach put together a fantastic first-presentation of his new SSTA measurements during the annealing of P3HT:PCBM blends, which he presented with exquisite clarity at ACS NORM today. Great job, Zach, and the culmination of a lot of hard work! Also, excellent presentation shirt.

Thanks to Prof Rob Berger for the invitation to present our nanocrystal results at ACS NORM this year. It has been an exciting physical chemistry session so far!