September 8, 2023
Advanced to PhD Candidacy: Amy Stegmann and Ying Xia
Two graduate students in the group, Amy Stegmann and Ying Xia, have successfully passed the General Exam and advanced to candidacy in their doctoral program this spring and summer. Amy investigates protein-directed mineralization and protein self-assembly as part of the Molecular Engineering program. Ying, co-advised by Jim and Professor Jun Liu in Materials Science and…
August 7, 2023
Congratulations, Dr. Lauren Palys!
Lauren Palys, a graduate student at Oregon State University jointly advised by Jim and Professor May Nyman (USO), has successfully defended her thesis titled “Unravelling Reaction Pathways of Group IV Metals” on July 28, 2023. In the past few years, Lauren spent considerable time in the De Yoreo group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and…
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
Congratulations, Dr. Kyle T. Kluherz!
Congratulations to Kyle Kluherz, a graduate student jointly advised by Jim and Professor Daniel Gamelin, to have successfully defended his thesis titled “Structural investigations of ytterbium dopant sites and elpasolite nanocrystal structure.” During his Ph.D. studies, Kyle made important contributions to understanding defect structures in doped halide perovskite and elpasolite nanocrystals. After completion of his…
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 28, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Madison Monahan!
We celebrate Madison Monahan, a graduate student co-advised by Jim and Professor Brandi Cossairt in Chemistry, for the successful defense of her thesis titled “Design Principles for Cadmium Chalcogenide Nanoparticle Assembly via Peptoids.” Madison and her research played a substantial role in the CSSAS program, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) established in 2018. In…
May 24, 2022
General Exam: Kyle Kluherz
Graduate student Kyle (Tk) Kluherz successfully passed his general exam and is now officially a UW doctoral candidate. He is glad to have completed this milestone in his PhD studies and to continue with the remainder of the program. Congratulations, Kyle!
May 20, 2022
DOE Highlight: Protein Dynamics on Mineral Surfaces
The recent PNAS paper by Dr. Shuai Zhang and colleagues on the rotational dynamics of proteins on mineral surfaces was featured in the CommUnique bulletin from the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. This work was partly funded by the Office’s Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS), an Energy Frontier Research…