Uche Anyanwu, the first member of the DV group, passed away on Feb 21 at around 12:45 am. He lost his bravely fought battle with thymoma. He graduated from the DV Group in 2005 and was awarded Ph. D. for his work on “Soluble Polymer-supported Catalysts and Initiators” (Link to Read more…
Rattan Gujadhur, an Alum from our group has been promoted as Associate Director for Outsourced Manufacturing at Gilead. According to Gilead “Rattan has made important contributions to all of Gilead’s HCV programs and was instrumental in ensuring that key raw materials for these complex APIs were sourced on time. He successfully managed Read more…
Congratulations to Kedar who defended his Master’s thesis on the synthesis new electron-accepting polymers. [Photos]
DV group alum, Dr. Jason Field has been appointed as the Executive Director of Life Sciences Ontario, an organization that fosters the relationship between life sciences companies/organization and the Canadian government. Congratulations Jay! [Link to Press Release]
Nag was awarded Dr. Paul H. Terry Scholarship of $1000 for his talk on ‘Next Generation Electron Conductors for Organic Photovoltaics’ in ResearchFest 2011. Sravan won William E. McEwen Award ($250.00) for his poster on the synthesis of apically functionalized heterohelicene molecules. Congrats to Nag and Sravan! [Photos]
iCons is a new undergraduate program at UMass that redefines undergraduate education. Check out the article about iCons in the July 4th Issue of C&EN [Link].
Drake Niedzielski, an eight grade student working in our lab received honorable mention at the Massachusetts Science Fair in Worcester for his work on ‘Photovoltaic Solar inks’. He received the second prize in the Regional Science Fair[Link]. Congratulations to Drake.
Amarnath Bheemaraju defended his Ph.D thesis yesterday. He studied the role of side chain interactions on the donor-acceptor complex formation in solution and its impact on electron transfer kinetics. Congratulations Amar! Link to Photos
Undergraduate researchers Dan Toscano, Kyle Reeves, Josh Stacey, Shashi Parmar and Matt Liu graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Oliver Traynor and Adam Hoyle returned to University of Manchester after a 1-year exchange program at UMass Amherst. The DV Group wishes them the very best Read more…
Drake Niedzielski, an eight grade student working in our lab won the second place at the Regional Science Fair in North Adams for his work on ‘Photovoltaic Solar inks’. [Link]