Graduate student Devin Grabner’s work on characterizing and optimizing microfluidic flow cell geometry for in situ resonant soft X-ray characterization of molecular nanostructures has been published in the RSC Journal: Lab on a Chip. This work directly characterizes the deformation of silicon nitride (SiN) membranes used as windows under experimental conditions for various cell configurations. […]
Graduate student Harlan Heilman won the Neville B. Smith Award for 1st Place in the ALS Student Poster Competition. “Combining DFT-based optical models with resonant x-ray reflectivity to measure orientation at buried interfaces.” As part of the award, Harlan gave a plenary talk the next day to over 200 people at the main morning session […]
Current graduate student Devin Grabner and former student Dr. Thomas Ferron (2019) were invited to speak on the Early Career Panel at the 2024 Advanced Light Source (ALS) Users Meeting. Devin Grabner was recently hired part-time by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division while finishing his last year of graduate school. Dr. Ferron is […]
Devin Grabner, a member of our group, has dedicated the past few academic years to developing an “Academia to Industry” colloquium series for the physics department, which has since expanded to become a university-wide speaking event. As a result of his efforts to bring these resources to our department and university, Dr. David Giltner, the Founder/CEO […]
Graduate students Harlan Heilman, Acacia Patterson, and Tanner Melody presented their current research at the 78th Annual Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM) of the American Chemical Society, held this year at WSU. Our summer REU student Sydney Pfleiger was also able to attend, providing her with a unique opportunity to learn about other fields of research […]
Devin Grabner played a dual role at this year’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) User Meeting & Visioning Workshops. As a member of the Users’ Executive Committee, he helped organize the week’s plenary talks, events, and workshops, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first light and discussed the future of the ALS. In addition, Devin […]
As a 5th-year Physics Ph.D. Candidate in our group, Devin Grabner has been awarded a prestigious doctoral fellowship at Berkeley National Laboratory – Advanced Light Source (LBNL – ALS). An ALS Doctoral Fellowship allows student researchers to work at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and to help advance state-of-the-art techniques and applications. Students who […]
Devin Grabner was nominated and elected to a two-year term as a student member of the Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) – Advanced Light Source (ALS) – User Executive Committee (UEC) The ALS Users’ Executive Committee is established by the ALS Users’ Association Charter. It serves and represents the interests of over 6000 scientists from all […]
Devin Grabner and Dr. Brian Collins both attended and presented at the 2022 Polymer Physics GRC held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. The Polymer Physics GRC is designed to highlight new unpublished developments in core areas of polymer physics, including macromolecular self-assembly, networks and characterization tools. This conference is held every other […]