{"id":27,"date":"2013-05-23T16:52:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.chem.umd.edu\/groups\/wang\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:55:42","slug":"group-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.chem.umd.edu\/groups\/wang\/group-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 28, 2022. Congratulations to former graduate student Dr. Mijin Kim for receiving the prestigious award MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35!<\/a><\/p>\n

April 7, 2022. Congratulations to Haoran for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Dr. Qu will be joining ASML this summer following the graduation. Cheers!<\/p>\n

April 6, 2022. Ben Barnes successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! Dr. Barnes will be joining NIST as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow this summer. Cheers!<\/p>\n

June 29, 2021. Haoran Qu and Chiyu Zhang received the Dean\u2019s Fellowship for Research Excellence, to be awarded in fall 2021. What a great day! Congratulations, Haoran and Chiyu!<\/p>\n

June 14, 2021. our group\u00a0alumnus Mijin Kim, is the finalist for the Victor K. LaMer Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, and she will present as a LaMer Keynote Speaker at the 95th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Congratulations, Dr. Kim!<\/p>\n

June 11, 2021. Benjamin Barnes received the Smalley-Curl Institute Distinguished Poster Award from NT21 (International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials, June 6-11, 2021. Rice University, Houston, TX, United States). Ben’s poster was\u00a0one of the top 3 selected from the more than 200 posters presented at this international conference for his poster: Barnes, B.; Wang, P.; Wang, YH. \u201cAn oligonucleotide sensor with parallel electrical pathways.\u201d Way to go, Ben!<\/p>\n

June 9, 2021. Our group alumnus Dr. Hamid Latif wrote to update that he was promoted full Professor of Physics at the\u00a0Forman Christian College Lahore. Cheers!<\/p>\n

May 20, 2021. Xiyuan Cheng successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! Congratulations, Dr. Cheng!<\/p>\n

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May 11, 2016.\u00a0Allen Ng received the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School, and\u00a0Lyndsey Powell is awarded the Millard & Lee Alexander Fellowship for 2016-2017 academic year. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

March 28, 2016. Hyejin Kwon\u00a0successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Kwon!<\/p>\n

… (Sorry for skipping many great news… particularly for the past year the Wang Group was awarded several major grants including two from ARPA-E, one from AFOSR through a MURI grant joint with Northwestern, our first R01 from NIH\/NIGMS, and a new NSF award to pursue several exciting new frontiers).<\/p>\n

May 16, 2014. “Symposium on Energy Materials<\/a>” to be held in the Marker Seminar Room. All are welcome!<\/p>\n

July 26, 2013. Lyndsey Powell is one of six graduate students awarded a GAANN Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. Congratulations, Lyndsey!<\/p>\n

July 8-12, 2013. The 1st<\/sup> Telluride Workshop on the Chemistry and Physics of Defects in Carbon Nanotubes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

June 17, 2013. Yanmei, Brendan, Lyndsey, and Hyejin\u2019s paper is accepted by Nature Chemistry. Cheers!<\/p>\n

May 15, 2013. Hyejin Kwon received a ChemBiochem Dean\u2019s Summer Award. Congratulations, Hyejin!<\/p>\n

May 13, 2013. Alex Brozena successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Brozena!<\/p>\n

April 27, 2013. Allen Ng received one of the four Graduate Bailey Research Fellowships for year 2013. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

April 25, 2013. Teddy Baker is awarded a summer graduate research fellowship from the Graduate School. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

April 22, 2013. Jarrett Leeds successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Jarrett is co-advised by Dr. John Fourkas and Dr. Wang. Congratulations, Jarrett!<\/p>\n

February 13, 2013. Nam\u00a0Soo\u00a0Kim received the College Chemistry Achievement Award from the Chemical Society of Washington. Way to go, Nam!<\/p>\n

November 28, 2012. Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0received the Dean\u2019s Fellowship for scholastic excellence and research,\u00a0Spring\u00a02013. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

November 28, 2012. Allen Ng, Lyndsey Powell, and David Ramsdell received the Dean\u2019s Fellowships for scholastic excellence and outstanding performance as teaching assistants,\u00a0Spring\u00a02013. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

October 24, 2012. Watch graduate student Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0explaining some of our group\u2019s research, along with Prof. Bryan Eichhorn and Janice Reutt-Robey, in a movie entitled \u201cNanotechnology Today – Fuel Cells,\u00a0Buckyballs\u00a0and Carbon Nanotubes<\/a>.\u201d This movie was made by\u00a0Bytesize\u00a0Science<\/a>\u00a0(The American Chemical Society’s YouTube channel) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of National Chemistry Week.<\/p>\n

October 23, 2012.\u00a0ChuanFu\u2019s\u00a0poster entitled \u201cControlling Interfaces for Electrically Interconnected, Non-cracking Si Beads-string Li-ion Battery Electrodes,\u201d won the best poster in the “best visuals” category at the\u00a0Fall\u00a02012 Meeting of the DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center. This work is collaborated with Prof. John Cumings\u2019 group at MSE, Prof. Teng Li\u2019s group of Mechanical Engineering, and Dr. Yue Qi of GM. Our collaborator Khim Karki won the best poster for \u201cbest collaboration\u201d and the best oral presentation for the collaborative work.<\/p>\n

September 1, 2012. Jia started his independent research group at\u00a0Tongji\u00a0University as the \u201cThousand Young\u00a0Talents Program\u201d Professor. Way to go, Prof. Huang!<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026(sorry for skipping so many news!)<\/p>\n

March 26, 2011. Yin\u2019s paper accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem.\u00a0Lett. Congratulations, Yin!<\/p>\n

January 5, 2011. Dr. Wang receives a NSF CAREER award.<\/p>\n

December 1, 2010. Dr.\u00a0ChienFu\u00a0Chen joined the group. Welcome,\u00a0ChienFu!<\/p>\n

May 15, 2010. Beiyue Shao receives the Alpha Chi Sigma Award\u00a0for Graduating Seniors. She will attend UT Austin in the fall to pursue a PhD in chemistry. We wish her good luck as she attends UT Austin to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry.<\/p>\n

May 10, 2010. Dr. Wang is on the\u00a0Alumni Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Wiess\u00a0School of Natural Science of Rice University, where he received his PhD degree in 2005.<\/p>\n

April 28, 2010. Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0was awarded one of the first\u00a0DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship<\/a>. Congratulations, Alex!<\/p>\n

April 21, 2010.\u00a0Huizhi\u00a0Bai\u00a0was awarded a Summer Research Fellowship from the\u00a0Graduate\u00a0School. Congratulations,\u00a0Huizhi!<\/p>\n

February 5, 2010. Alex, Jessica, and\u00a0Beiyue\u2019s\u00a0first JACS article is accepted.<\/p>\n

January 1, 2010. Dr. Cai Shen joined the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Shen received his PhD degree from the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0St. Andrews\u00a0in\u00a0UK. Welcome, Cai!<\/p>\n

December 1, 2009. Ms. Hyejin Kwon joined the group as a new graduate student. Welcome, Hyejin!<\/p>\n

November 2, 2009.\u00a0Dr. Hongwei Liao joined us as a joint postdoctoral fellow between the Wang group and Prof.\u00a0John Cumings<\/a>\u2019 group at MSE.\u00a0Welcome, Hongwei!<\/p>\n

October 23, 2009. Dr. Wang gave a talk as part of\u00a0Joint Seminars (Chemistry\/Biochemistry<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Chemical\/Biomolecular\u00a0Engineering<\/a>),\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Maryland.<\/p>\n

October 8, 2009. Dr. Wang gave an invited talk at The 2009 ARL Fellows Symposium, \u201cNanomaterials: Science & Engineering.\u201d\u00a0Aberdeen,\u00a0MD. September 8, 2009.\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Wang gave a talk at NIST, Biochemical Science Division.<\/p>\n

September 1, 2009. Yin Zhang joined the group as a visiting student from the Physics Department of\u00a0Xi\u2019an\u00a0Jiaotong\u00a0University<\/a>. Welcome, Yin!<\/p>\n

August , 2009. The Wang group attended the\u00a0238th ACS National Meeting, Washington DC, 2009<\/a>.\u00a0Shunliu, Jessica, Beiyue, and Alex presented two posters.<\/p>\n

June 28- July 2, 2009. Dr. Wang gave an invited talk at the\u00a05th<\/sup>\u00a0International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies<\/a>\u00a0(ICMAT),\u00a0Singapore.<\/p>\n

May 27, 2009. Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0was awarded a Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Summer Fellowship. Congratulations, Alex!<\/p>\n

May 26, 2009. Dr. Wang\u2019s\u00a0nanofocus\u00a0article\u00a0\u201cNanofabrication beyond electronics<\/a>,\u201c\u00a0published in\u00a0ACS Nano<\/i>\u00a02009<\/b>,\u00a03<\/i>, 1049-1056.\u00a0also\u00a0read the\u00a0editorial<\/a>\u00a0by Paul Weiss and Penelope Lewis, \u201cDifferent and more powerful, not just smaller, faster and cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n

May 4-7, 2009. Dr. Wang gave an invited talk at\u00a0NSTI, Houston, TX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April 23, 2009. Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0was recognized by the Center for Teaching Excellence as one of seven 2008-2009 Distinguished Teaching Assistants at the department of chemistry and biochemistry. Congratulations, Alex!<\/p>\n

April 16, 2009. Josh de Groot was awarded a\u00a0Percy Julian Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0for Underrepresented Groups in Sciences. Congratulations, Josh!<\/p>\n

April 2, 2009. Alex\u00a0Brozena\u00a0was awarded a\u00a0Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0DoD. Congratulations, Alex!<\/p>\n

March 22-26, 2009. Dr. Wang organized “Chemical Methods of Nanofabrication” symposium at the\u00a0237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition in Salt Lake City<\/a>\u00a0(with\u00a0So-JungPark\u00a0and\u00a0Chad\u00a0Mirkin). As one of seven symposia\u00a0within the meeting theme, \u201cNanoscience: Challenges for the Future\u201d, the three-day symposium included 25 experts from around the world, to discuss current progress and future directions in nanofabrication. The symposium was co-sponsored by\u00a0PChem\u00a0and Nano Programs.<\/p>\n

Feb 15, 2009. Dr. Wang presented a seminar at the\u00a0Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 20, 2009. Beiyue Shao and Joshua de Groot joined the group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!<\/p>\n

December 15, 2008.\u00a0Huizhi\u00a0Bai, Alex\u00a0Brozena, Jarrett Leeds (co-advised with Prof.\u00a0Fourkas), and Yanmei Piao joined the group as our first class of graduate students. Welcome to the group!<\/p>\n

Oct 28, 2008. Dr.\u00a0Shunliu\u00a0Deng joined the group. Welcome!<\/p>\n

Sept 15, 2008. Jessica\u00a0Moskowitz\u00a0joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.<\/p>\n

August 1, 2008. Dr. Wang arrived at\u00a0Maryland.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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