The lab is very excited to welcome Nick! After a productive and impressive lab-trial, Nick will be joining the Organics team to work on the CuPc project with Zach. We’re thrilled to have him on board!

Congrats to Zach for publishing his review of the SSTA technique in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry! This is Zach’s (and my) favorite journal, so we are super excited to publish here! Fantastic job, Zach!

A warm welcome to Parker Brodale, who will be joining the group as a rotation student this quarter. He will be working with Zach to do some measurements of organic polymers during thermal annealing. Welcome, Parker!

Marty, our intrepid recent graduate, is leaving the lab after many years of great work developing our white-light generation apparatus and doing a huge number of nanocrystal experiments. We will miss his awesome literature reviews at group meetings, his legendary dependability, and of course his friendship. We wish him well as he moves back to California to become an Optical Engineer at Maztech Industries. Keep in touch, Marty!

We say thanks and bid a fond farewell to Laura, who is leaving our lab to start her graduate career in Stanford’s Chemistry Department. Laura has played a leading role on Team Squaraines, working on building a kinetic model that can reproduce the SSTA data she helped measure during thermal annealing. We will miss both Laura and her famous ‘Cathy Aliens’! Best of luck at Stanford, and we look forward to seeing all the great work she’ll do as a graduate student.

A huge congratulations to Michael on the successful defense of his thesis, “Influencing Halide Segregation in Perovskite Nanocrystals via Surface Treatment”. Michael presented a wonderfully clear and fascinating seminar on his thesis work. We wish him luck as he starts his new position as faculty in the Chemistry Department at Truman State University! Congratulations, Michael!

A big welcome to Laila, who will be joining our lab as a graduate student! Laila will be taking over our projects on perovskite nanocrystals. Welcome Laila!

A big welcome to Carly, who joins our lab for 10 weeks this summer through the Research Experiences for Undergrads program! Carly joins us from Allegheny College, and will be working with Zach to measure some electron donor-acceptor samples using transient absorption. Welcome aboard, Carly!

A big congrats to Laura, who was selected to the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six, and also earned awards for her accomplishments: American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award to the Outstanding Senior and ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award! Well-deserved!

A big congratulations to our undergrads Marty and Laura on their graduation!