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]
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]
Kyle Reeves received the best presentation award for his talk on P3HT nanoparticle inks at the CVS-ACS meeting held in Trinity College Mather Hall. The award carries an undisclosed sum of money (rumored to be in the hundreds). Kyle also received the ACS-CVS for the best undergraduate chemistry student from Read more…
Sean Fleuriel has received the Bradspies Summer Research Fellowship for 2011 to continue his work on nanoparticle-based solar cells in the DV Group. In addition, he will also receive a Shapiro Scholarship for Fall 2011. Congratulations to Sean on these achievements.
The DV group participated in the ScienceQuest 2011 for area high school students. The event was targeted for tenth and eleventh graders. The intent is for them to visit UMass Amherst, engage in hands-on activities and interact with the faculty. The DV group hosted a demo, in which the students Read more…
DV Group’s graduate student Mr. Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli has been selected to receive a Eugene M. Isenberg Scholar Award for the 2011/2012 academic year. Congratulations Nag! The award was established in 1994 by Eugene M. Isenberg (’50, CEO of Nabors Industries, Inc.) and Ronnie Isenberg to aid UMass Amherst students who Read more…
The following video was made for the EFRC PHasE center at UMass.