Awards
December 1, 2023
Chenyang Shi Receives MRS Best Poster Award
Dr. Chenyang Shi, a Post Doctorate Research Associate at PNNL working with Jim, has recently received a conference-wide Best Poster Award from the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. His poster titled, “Multiphase Silk Assembly for Two-Dimensional Composites,” was chosen as one of the six winners from over 400 posters presented in the Wednesday poster…
November 18, 2023
Jingshan Du Joins Community Board of Nanoscale Horizons
Dr. Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the De Yoreo Group, has been selected as a new Community Board Member for the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Nanoscale Horizons. Nanoscale Horizons is a leading journal publishing exceptionally high-quality, innovative nanoscience and nanotechnology. Its Community Board, established in 2016, is an early career…
September 9, 2023
Sakshi Yadav Schmid Awarded Fellowship from the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research
Congratulations to Dr. Sakshi Yadav Schmid, a postdoctoral research associate in the group, who has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women in Science from the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials in Switzerland, a national research center funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Sakshi will join the École Polytechnique Fédérale…
May 25, 2023
Ying Xia Receives a Clean Energy Institute Travel Grant
Ying Xia, a graduate student co-advised by Jim and Professor Jun Liu, receives a Student Travel Grant from the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington to cover her trip to the 2023 Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Crystal Growth and Assembly. This conference is one of the most important gatherings in the field and…
May 4, 2023
Jingshan Du Appointed as Associate Editor of Frontiers for Young Minds
Dr. Jingshan Du joins the journal Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM) as an Associate Editor in the Chemistry and Materials Section. FYM is a unique journal that publishes articles by scientists for young readers. Young Reviewers and Science Mentors help ensure the articles are easy to understand. Jingshan is a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow…
March 9, 2023
Jingshan Du Receives a Distinguished Student Award from the American Physical Society
Dr. Jingshan Du, a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the De Yoreo group, receives a Distinguished Student Award from the American Physical Society (APS) at the APS March Meeting 2023 in Las Vegas, NV. The Distinguished Student program was established by APS and its Forum of International Physics in 2015 to award outstanding non-US…
June 29, 2022
Ying Xia Receives Best Poster Award at the 27th AACGE Western Section Conference on Crystal Growth & Epitaxy
Congratulations to Ying Xia, a graduate student jointly advised by Jim and Professor Jun Liu, for receiving a Best Poster Award from the 27th AACGE Western Section Conference on Crystal Growth & Epitaxy. Ying’s poster titled “Controlled 2D peptides assembly on twisted van der Waals substrates” was one of only two posters to receive this…
May 20, 2022
Ying Xia Receives Two Clean Energy Institute Student Travel Grants
Graduate student Ying Xia in the De Yoreo Group (joint advisory with Professor Jun Liu) recently received two Student Travel Grants from the Clean Energy Institute at UW. This recognition supported her travel to the 2022 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Hawaii, in which she discussed how engineered proteins assemble on mineral surfaces and…
February 9, 2022
Jim De Yoreo Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the new cohort of elected members on February 9, 2022. Jim was elected “for advances in materials synthesis from nucleation to large-scale crystal growth.” The full announcement by the NAE is available at https://www.nae.edu/270224/National-Academy-of-Engineering-Elects-111-Members-and-22-International-Members Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to…
November 12, 2021
Jingshan Du Awarded Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr. Jingshan Du for being awarded a Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jingshan is the first PNNL scientist ever to receive this honor. He will use the award to develop new methods and instruments that enable the use of low-temperature (S)TEM to map the surface and interface structure of ice and ice-colloid boundaries…