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NDRL Graduate Student Receives Prestigious Award

NDRL Graduate Student Receives Prestigious Award

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

It is our great pleasure to announce that Jeffrey DuBose, a recent PhD graduate from the Kamat group at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, has received the Gerhard Closs award. This prestigious award is given annually by the Inter-American Photochemical Society to talented PhD students with significant accomplishments in the area of photochemistry. The Closs award was given to Jeff for his highly productive graduate career focusing on excited state interactions of perovskite materials. The committee also noted his outreach and video on transient absorption as exceptional. Congratulations Jeff! The links to his videos are below.…

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Congratulations to Jeff DuBose

Congratulations to Jeff DuBose

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

Congratulations to Jeff Dubose on winning the 2022 Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award for Science,and the Dow Chemical Company Outstanding Graduate Student Award. This dual recognition is indeed a significant achievement and bodes well for a successful career in science going forward.

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NDRL Graduate Student Wins DOE Award

NDRL Graduate Student Wins DOE Award

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

Patricia Huestis has won an award from the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. This supplemental award is given to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory. Patricia will spend the summer of 2019 working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory under the guidance of Drs. Sue Clark and Greg Kimmel. She will be helping to develop and use a RADAFM device for examining the modification of interfaces during in situ radiolysis. This device is a combination of an x-ray or electron source with an atomic force microscope (AFM). Patricia will be studying the radiolysis of aluminum hydroxide and oxyhydroxide compounds for a better understanding of their interactions with aqueous environments pertinent to the cleanup of the radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Washington site.…

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NDRL Student Receives the Forgash Award

NDRL Student Receives the Forgash Award

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

Amal Sebastian has received the Forgash Fellowship Award. The Forgash fellowship provides a $5,000 award to an undergraduate or graduate student who is interested in solar energy collection/conversion technologies through research and development. His project, entitled Atmospheric Pressure Plasma: A Novel Tool for the Synthesis of Efficient Photocatalytic Materials

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NDRL Grad Student to Present Paper

NDRL Grad Student to Present Paper

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

NDRL graduate student Ek Adhikari will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference in August 2018. His paper is titled "Influence of O2 or H2O in a Plasma Jet and Its Environment on Plasma Electrical and Biochemical Performances."…

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Graduate Student Presenting

Graduate Student Presenting

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory student Patricia Huestis is traveling to the 2018 International Conference on Ionizing Processes, held in July in Annapolis, MD. She will be presenting a paper titled, "Effects of Radiation in Slurry Systems Containing Aluminum (Oxy)Hydroxides."…

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Post Doc Presenting

Post Doc Presenting

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory Post Doc Kazuhiro Iwamatsu is traveling to the 2018 International Conference on Ionizing Processes, held in July in Annapolis, MD. His paper is titled, "Radiolysis of Hydrogen Peroxide Associated with Aluminum Oxide."…

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NDRL Physics Students win Poster Awards

Physics Department

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.…

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Undergraduate Receives Departmental Award

Undergraduate Receives Departmental Award

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

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.…

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Graduate Students Receive Awards

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

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."…

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Graduate Student to Present at International Symposium

Graduate Student to Present at International Symposium

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

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, 

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Graduate Students to Present at GEC/ICRP Conference

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

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.  

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Recent Graduates Accept New Positions

Laura Mortlock-McMinn

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.…

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