{"id":161,"date":"2025-09-17T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mimc\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:52:03","slug":"group-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/mimc\/group-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Latest Group News<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The group welcomes three(!) new grad students to the MIMC lab. Welcome Arthur, Ashlyn, and Kami!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Hyunggu Kim and Gaurav Mitra for successfully defending their PhD dissertations at UMass Amherst! Dr. Kim is PhD #10 and Dr. Mitra is PhD #11 for the MIMC lab! We are very proud of their hard work and look forward to bright and successful futures for them both. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The MIMC lab will be relocating to Washington State University in Fall 2024. Kevin is looking forward to moving back to his home state and recruiting students to join the group! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The group celebrated Enes Buz&#8217;s successful thesis defense! Enes is the group&#8217;s 9th doctoral degree recipient and his next adventure will be in the group of Dr. Fabian Menges at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden as a Postdoctoral Researcher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">April 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time since the last update although we\u2019ve been very active on Twitter! Some highlights over the past year include Haneen Mansoor winning a P&amp;G Graduate Student Fellowship; new group members Gaurav Mitra and Hyunggu Kim (grads), and Jake Collins (undergrad); and an eventful sabbatical leave for Kevin and his family in Seattle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The group celebrated the successful Final Defenses of Dr. Fumi Kato and Dr. William Harrigan in March and the successful examinations by Haneen (Original Research Proposal) and Enes (Prospectus)! Haneen also saw her first paper published in\u00a0<em>Frontiers in Chemistry<\/em>\u00a0(view\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fchem.2019.00353\">Haneen&#8217;s paper at <em>Frontiers in Chemistry<\/em><\/a>, open access!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also welcomed 4 new undergrads for summer research stints in the lab! Welcome Sam, Jacob, Sarah, and Ruby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure! This couldn\u2019t have been possible without great students and the support of Raina, Charlotte, and Samantha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin, AB, and William gave talks at the 256th ACS National Meeting &amp; Exposition in Boston! AB talked about his work on resolving the role of hydrazine during the synthesis of SrTiO<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;nanocrystals and William presented his recent work on spin dynamics in Cr-doped SrTiO<sub>3<\/sub>&nbsp;nanocrystals. Kevin ended the talks by the group on Fumi\u2019s results of Mn<sup>2+<\/sup>-doping in decameric CdS nanoclusters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group is also enjoying the new labs in the Physical Sciences Building, which we moved into at the end of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">June 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We welcome summer undergraduate research students Anand Ode and Ekeoma Ibe. Anand is an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Ekeoma just finished her Associates degree from Holyoke Community College and is headed to UMass Lowell in the Fall to start her degree in Biotechnology. Welcome to the MIMC lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Fumi for his paper on site-specific doping of Mn<sup>2+<\/sup>&nbsp;ions into CdS-based semiconductor nanoclusters. The paper was accepted in&nbsp;<em>Chemistry of Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter is still alive and well in New England. 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