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June, 2008:  Andrew’s Accounts of Chemical Research paper has been listed as one of the most accessed articles in the journal for the first quarter of 2008.

June 2008 – Congratulations go to Hye Won Youm, who successfully defended her Master’s thesis. We’re going to miss her!

June, 2008 – Ana has arrived for her 10 week REU in our lab, working with CJ Thode and supported through the Penn State MRSEC Center for Nanoscale Science.

June 2008 – Ashley, Kristi and Beth have all arrived and begun their summer research in the group.

May 2008 – Congratulations to the newlyweds Amanda (Royer) and Joe Ault!

May, 2008 – New graduate student Chris Fennig has arrived in State College to begin his summer research in the lab.

May, 2008 – Anand Tarpara and Neil Mucha graduated with Chemistry B.S. degrees at the spring commencement ceremonies. Andrew Latham returned for his PhD hooding & graduation ceremony.

April 2008 – Mary Beth is extremely honored to be recognized by Alpha Chi Sigma with the 2008 Professor Award.

Snippets from alumni:  

We’re happy (and relieved!) to hear the Ben Hutchins is FINALLY engaged to Crystal Myer. Chris Morgan is working at Baucci Diagnostics in New Jersey. Jen Lyon received her PhD from U Texas in December (07) and has started her position at UT Health Science Center in Houston as an Assistant Professor (!!). Carly Carter is now at U Colorado and kicking serious butt.  Brian Gilmartin has started his new position at Xerox in sunny Webster, NY.  We’d love to hear from the rest of all of you people – drop us a line!

February 8th, 2008: CONGRATULATIONS to the new Dr. Andrew Latham.

November 14, 2007: WELCOME Jacob Beveridge, Matt Coppock, Eric Fillerup and Jay Stephens our  newest graduate student members!

November 2007: Anand Tarpara has received the Fleming-Meyer Analytical Chemistry Award for 2007-2008 and a TEAS scholarship—Congratulations!

November 5th-6th, 2007: Andrew Latham has been named as one of two graduate student representatives on the “Evolving Demands in Graduate Education, Training and Career Development for Future STEM Professionals—A Roundtable Discussion” in Washington, D.C.

October 29th, 2007: Congratulations to Andrew Latham and Varun Sambhy as the winners of the Sponsor’s Days 2007 poster competition.

September 1, 2007: WELCOME to Michael Burek, Undergraduate from University of Waterloo.

May 19th, 2007: CJ Thode has received the NASA Space Grant Fellowship, from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years.

May 19th, 2007: Bekah McLaughlin has received the 2007 Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) College Chemistry Award

May 17th: Mary Beth Williams was appointed to the Defense Science Study Group.

May 14th, 2007: Congratulations to Chris Morgan on successful defense of his Master’s degree.

April 24th, 2007: Bekah McLaughlin completed and defended her Honors Thesis in Chemistry!

April 11th, 2007: Congratulations to the new Dr. Kristi Ohr on completion and defense of her dissertation. Despite our protestations, she will be leaving Penn State mid-May to take a position at Amherst College. 

March 5th 2007:  Congratulations to Andrew Latham, who has been named a 2007 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Fellow, sponsored by Eli Lilly.

February 2007:  Bekah McLaughlin has been named a 2007 Gates Cambridge Fellow. The Gates Cambridge Fellowship, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, enables outstanding graduate students to Cambridge University.

December 14th – Congratulations to Dr. David Fleming for successfully defending his graduate dissertation!

October 16th - Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin Hutchins on the successful defense of his dissertation!

August, 2006 – Congratulations to the new Dr and Mrs. Brian Gilmartin!

August 4, 2006 – Congratulations to Andrew Latham, who was awarded the 2006 Lubrizol Fellowship for outstanding graduate work in Analytical Chemistry.

July, 2006 – Welcome Hyewon Youm, our newest (pre)graduate student member.

June, 2006 – Welcome aboard to Janice Heinold, Anand Tarpara, and Tori Miksiewicz, our summer 2006 undergraduate coworkers.

April 17, 2006 – Congratulations to Dr. Brian Gilmartin, the first Williams Group Ph. D.!!

April 13, 2006 – Congratulations to Lisa Pantzar for the successful defense of her Master’s thesis!

April 10, 2006 – Welcome aboard to PSU Chemistry major Anand Tarpara, who was awarded a John & Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship to begin research in our group in summer, 2006.

April 1, 2006 – We are pleased that Dr. Srecko Kirin has arrived from Germany as our newest postdoctoral research assistant!

March 1, 2006 – Congratulations to Christopher (CJ) Thode, who has been selected as a student member of the delegation to the meeting of the Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany in late June. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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