James Kapaldo is a recipient of the 2018 Center for Computational Computing Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization. James was nominated by his professor, Sylwia Ptasinska. Congratulations to James for this remarkable accomplishment!…
Evan Panken has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The full article can be seen using this link http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050517aab.html…
The Fifth Annual Conference of the Graduate Physics Society was held on Wednesday, November 30. The event includes a poster session and and oral presentations.
Ten students presented posters, and awards are given for the poster session. Award receipients were: Xu Han; James Kapaldo; and Pitambar Sapkota.Oral presentations were given by these physics graduate students: Tyler Anderson, Stephen Kuhn, Chris Seymour, Luis Morales, Fatemeh Elahi, and Craig Reingold.…
Congratulations to NDRL student Emily Kunce, who will be receiving the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. This award is based on a student's contributions to the research within the department, and their potential for future. It is the highest honor the Department of Physics can award to one of its graduates.…
The NDRL was well-represented at this year's Graduate Student Union Research Symposium. Xu Han and James Kapaldo both displayed posters at the Symposium. A special congratulations to Xu for winning 2nd prize in the science category! …
Congratulations to NDRL Graduate Student, Jacob Hoffman! Jacob has been selected to receive the 2016 Patrick and Jana Eilers Graduate Student Fellowship for Energy Related Research.…
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Stamplecoskie on his new position! He will be joining Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, as an Assistant Professor. Dr Stamplecoskie starts his new position this January. …
Congratulations to Xu Han and James Kapaldo for receiving 2nd and 3rd places, respectively, for their poster presentations at the Graduate Physics Student Annual Conference at Notre Dame. Xu's poster was entitled, "Cold Atmospheric Plasma Jets as New Tools for Cancer Cell Treatment," and James's was "A Characterization of Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jets through a Spatial-Temporal of the Optical Emission Spectra."…
Congratulations to NDRL graduate student Xueqiang Zhang for being selected to present at the AVS 62nd International Symposium & Exhibition being held in San Jose, California. Xueqiang will be traveling this October to present Formation of Heterogeneous Multiple Oxide/Hydroxide Species in a GaP (111) Surface Tracked by In Situ Near-Ambient Pressure XPS, …
Several graduate students of Sylwia Ptasinska's will be presenting at the 68th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference/9th Annual International Conference on Reactive Plasmas held in Honolulu, Hawaii, this October 2015. Ek Adhikari will be presenting Characterization of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas Jet (APPJ) and Its Effect on Plasmid DNA. …
Congratulations to Xueqiang Zhang who won first place
NDRL graduate student Joseph Manser is one of 55 top graduate student researchers
Congratulations to the following recent Radiation Laboratory Ph.D. graduates on their new positions!
Jeff Christians has moved to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. He will be working as a postdocutral research with Dr. Joseph Luther.
Doug Hines will start a teaching career as an Instructor in Chemistry at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.…
Please congratulate Radiation Laboratory undergraduate Emmy Kunce!
Congratulations to William Alex Cantrell for being awarded the Science-Business Award on May 15, 2015. Alex was also recognized as the top student in his major!…
Doug Hines has been selected as the recipient of the 2015 Eli.J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award in the Division of the Science for the University of Notre Dame.
NDRL Graduate student Doug Hines has successfully defended his thesis "Excited State Reactions at the Quantum Dot Surface."
Congratulation to Doug Hines!
Congratulations to Yong-Siou for being selected for a travel grant to the 227th ECS Meeting being held in Chicago this May.
Joseph Manser has been selected by the scientific review panel
Graduate student Danilo Jara's recent paper, "Size-Dependent Photovoltaic Performance of CulnS2 Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells," published in the December issue of Chemistry of Materials, was used for the issue's cover art.
Weixin Huang has been selected as a speaker for the Gordon Research Seminar/Conference on Chemical Reactions at Surfaces
Congratulations to Abigail Swint for being selected to receive the 2015 Forgash Undergraduate Student Fellowhip in Solar Energy Research.
Work by Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering graduate student Joe Manser has demonstrated, by pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy, that photoexcited charges in a new class of semiconducting materials, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, exist in an inherently unbound state.
NDRL Graduate Research Assistant and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering student Jeff Christians has been awarded two fellowships through programs at the University of Notre Dame.
NDRL Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate student Yong-Siou Chen passed his oral candidacy exam on November 7, 2014, with his presentation titled
A new paper by University of Notre Dame researchers describes their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic “hybrid” perovskites.
Recent graduate Dr. Sachidananda Krishnamurthy has obtained a joint postdoctoral position between UT Dallas and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering graduate student James Radich, working with Prashant Kamat, was a co-recipient of the Graduate Student Award of the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
Graduate student Sarah Reiff organized and co-chaired the outstandingly successful Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation Chemistry this Summer (July 13-18) at Proctor Academy.