Check it out: Thomas, who is getting ready to defend soon, was featured in the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Spotlight!
Zain Awarded Hertz Fellowship!
Congratulations to former group undergraduate, Zain Zaidi, who has been award a Hertz Fellowship!
The Hertz Fellowship is arguably the most prestigious science graduate fellowship in the US. Zaid is now a Ph.D. student in the group of Joe Subotnik at Princeton.
Group Awards Round Up
The group is collecting awards faster than I can get it together to post them on the website, so here is a round up:
Soon-to-defend Ph.D. student, Thomas Knoll, will receive two awards at commencement: The Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service and the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student
Ubaid Hassan, who spent the summer of 2024 with us as part of the IACS DCD REU program, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the group of Andrew Rappe at U. Penn.
And last but not least, former group undergraduate Zain Zaidi was awarded the Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Zain is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Princeton in the group of Joe Subotnik.
Congratulations and nice work, all around!
Group Members in the News
A couple exciting news items:
Group alum Zain Zaidi (now a PhD student in the Subotnik group at Princeton) was names a finalist for the Hertz Foundation Fellowship.
And, group undergraduate Darren Wang was names SBU URECA (Undergrad Research and Creative Activities) Researcher of the Month.
Congratulations to you both!
Welcome, Dhiraj!
We are very happy to have first year PhD student Dhiraj Raj officially join the group. Welcome, Dhiraj!
Congratulations, Caitlin!
Just before Thanksgiving, Caitlin Hetherington successfully defended her PhD! Caitlin has lead our recent work on hot carrier cooling in semiconductor quantum dots. This week, she started work in the group of Joel Freundlich at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School as a postdoctoral researcher. Congrats, Caitlin!
Thomas receives ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award!
I’m very happy to share that Thomas Knoll won the ACS Pride Merck Graduate Research Award! This award recognizes excellent graduate research in the chemical sciences from researchers who are members of the LGBTQIA2S+ (LGBTQ+) community. Congratulations, Thomas!
Thomas receives Junior Researcher Award!
Congratulations to Thomas Knoll for be awarded one of this year’s IACS Junior Research Awards! Nice work, Thomas!
Congratulations, Satoshi!
Congratulations to Satoshi who successfully defended his Master’s on Thursday! Satoshi, who will be joining the Chemistry PhD program at UT Austin this fall, has done really nice work computing the electronic absorption spectra of atomically precise gold clusters. This work is a collaboration with the group of Chris Johnson here at SBU, and some of the results can be found in this recent preprint. Nice work, Satoshi!
Zain in the News
Check out this article in the SBU News regarding Zain Zaidi’s Goldwater Award. Congrats again, Zain!
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