Fuyou Nagayama, a high school student and member of Borguet Group, wins multiple science fair awards.
Fuyuo Nagayama, a high school student and member of the Borguet Group, is proud to announce winning a 2nd place award in Chemistry at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science State Fair held on May 14th-16th 2006. Fuyou also received the Junior Award from Pennsylvania Science Talent Search. This is not the first time he has participated and been awarded for his contribution to science. Nagayama won first place in chemistry at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Regional Science Fair in February of 2006, first place in Physics along with a special award from the NAVY at the George Washington Carver Science Fair held in March of 2006, and received a 2nd place award in Physics in the Delaware Valley Science Fair held in April 2006 along with a scholarship to attend the University of Science in Philadelphia.

Allison Pymer awarded first place at the 70th Intercollegiate Student Chemists Conference.
Allison Pymer was awarded first place in the Physical I division at the 70th Annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists’ Convention (ISCC) for her presentation, "Using ultrafast lasers for nonlinear optical studies of mesoscopic particles in solution," which described the application of second harmonic generation (SHG) to probe properties such as surface charge density.  The ISCC is a yearly gathering of undergraduate students from fifteen regional colleges who present talks in physical, organic, analytical, and inorganic chemistry.  ISCC link:
http://academic.ursinus.edu/isc/

Allison Pymer awarded TempleUniversity's Henry A. Sloviter Student Research Award in Chemistry.
Allison Pymer was recently awarded the Henry A. Sloviter Research Award in Chemistry was awarded to Allison Pymer at the 2006 Temple University College of Science and Technology awards banquet.  The Henry A. Sloviter Research Award in Chemistry, established by alumnus Dr. Henry A. Sloviter, is made annually to "an outstanding sophomore or junior Chemistry major to support and encourage excellence in laboratory research."
Sloviter: http://www.chem.temple.edu/main/awards/Awards.asp

Allison K. Pymer won Philadelphia Section Award for poster presentation at Recent Research Conference.

Kyoungja Seo's Nanolithography research featured in Chemical & Engineering News and Nanotechnology Now News.

Recent graduate lands local job.
Dr. Xue Feng, a recent Ph. D. graduate, has landed her first job. Currently she is working as Environmental and Process Control Analyst at Union Packaging, LLC in Philadelphia.

Graduate student Xue Feng has graduated with Ph.D.
Xue Feng, leader of our Carbon group, defended her dissertation in December.
"Application of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes In Environmental Engineering: Adsorption and Desorption of Environmentally Relevant Species Studied by Infrared Spectroscopy and Temperature Programmed Desorption"
Dr. Feng, who was co-advised by Professor Radisav Vidic, was awarded a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.  Her work resulted in a number of publications. A few more are in preparation.