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 for the ALS User’s Meeting.
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 finishing his second Post-Doc position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and will be transitioning to a staff scientist position either there or at the ALS.
The panelists were scientists from Industry, Academia, DoE Laboratory (Ferron), and DoD Laboratory (Grabner). There was a lot of positive engagement with well-received responses from the panel members.
Short bios on each panelist can be found here: https://als.lbl.gov/2024-user-meeting-speakers/#earlycareer
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 outside of the work she is doing this summer.
Gradstudents Acacia Patterson and Tanner Melody presented their work at the Spring MRS meeting in Seattle. Alumnus REU student Ally Hurd also joined the group to present her project, extended at her home institution Macalester College, MN with her mentor Prof. James Doyle. Prof. Collins also presented an invited talk in the Symposium “Beond 20% Efficiencies with Organic Solar Cell Devices”.
