Wiesner Group - Group News

Group News

January 2009

A good start to the year for the Wiesner group. Morgan Stefik and Teeraporn Suteewong passed their A exams, they will be marching on to get their PhDs. They both took their A exam the same day, which meant Uli had a long day.

December 2008

Before leaving for the break the group had a Christmas party, there was a lot of food at display and the Gift Exchange was one of the highlights of the party.

October 2008

Wiesner Group vs. Estroff Group Soccer match - Final Score 3-5 after leading 2-0 at the half. A rematch will happen.

Review Article with T. Hyeon et al. published ASAP in Advanced Functional Materials

August 2008

Andrew completed his B exam on the 31st and is now Dr. Andrew Burns. In other news, he got married and moved to upstate NY to work for GE Global Research.

July 2008

Marleen completed her B exam on the 14th! and is now Dr. Maria Magdelena Gerdina Kamperman, PhD - congrats!

June 2008

Wiesner Group hike through the Cayuga Trail (pics)

Undergraduate Peter Bai is selected for a Hunter Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholarship.

Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University) arrives as a visiting scientist

May 2008

Phil and Laura Graduated with MS&E Degrees
Prof. Jinwoo Lee and his wife departed for his professorship in Korea

April 2008

Hitesh, Chris and Jinwoo present at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans

January 2008

Erik Herz presented his work at the SPIE Biomedical Optics Conference in San, Jose CA.
Dr. Jingyu Lee is visiting the group from Seoul National University.

December 2007

Wiesner Group Holiday Party (photos)

November 2007

Scott Warren has left the building.
Andrew Burns and Marleen Kamperman presented their work at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston, where Marleen won the Gold Award for her presentation on hierarchically porous materials as well as the Poster Award.

September 2007

The group welcomes Hiroaki Sai, Srikant Iyer and Cathy Li to our labs as first year students, and Mareli Allmeroth as a visiting researcher from Univ. Mainz in Germany

August 2007

Scott defended his thesis, got married and honemymooned
Prof. Wiesner has returned!

July 2007

We bid farewell to the one and only Rene Kogler, with an expedition across Lake Cayuga on canoes and kayaks. The intrepid boaters survived mostly unscathed (though very wet - thanks to Morgan) and enjoyed an excellent afternoon (and a very tasty barbeque - mmmm.. pie)

Scott, Aaron, & Zach's paper on a photochemical method for nanoparticle synthesis paper was published ASAP in JACS

June 2007

Scott passed his B exam

Marleen and Hitesh showed journalists the secrets of self-assembly at the Kavli Workshop

May 2007

Billy, Rahul, George and Kevin graduated with Bachelor's Degrees in Materials Science & Engineering and Liane graduated with a degree in chemistry

Scott was awarded the Chemistry Department's Wentink Prize and Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's (CURB) Marilyn Emmons Williams Award for promoting undergraduate research at Cornell

Chris, Hitesh, Jinwoo, Erik and Andrew presented at the CCMR Polymer Outreach Program Symposium

Michelle passed her Q exam

Website update

April 2007

Michelle and Aey found trying to escape Ithaca by camel (another photo)

Marleen presents her research at MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco

March 2007

Scott's paper on hybrid materials assembly and disassembly is published in Nature Materials

January 2007

Andrew Burns presents at SPIE Photonics West in San Jose, CA

November 2006

Rahul Malik won the James L. Gregg Award for most outstanding Junior in Materials Science & Engineering for highest GPA.

Scott, Andrew and Hitesh will be presenting work at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston

Scott's work on nanoparticle assembly and disassembly was accepted for publication in Nature Materials

October 2006

An invited review on core-shell fluorescent silica particles will appear in the November Issue of Chemical Society Reviews and has been selected as the cover article

September 2006

Scott presented several talks at the ACS meeting in San Francisco, speaking on the topics of metal nanoparticles with liquid-like properties, nanoparticle-tuned assembly and disassembly, and a general route to metal-silica-block copolymer hybrids.

September 2006 - Scott's paper, "Generalized Route to Metal Nanoparticles with Liquid Behavior," is published in JACS.

Marleen received a poster award at the Engineering Research Showcase.

August-September 2006
Yongming Chen, a scientist in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, is a visiting scientist in our research group.

August 2006
Lauren Messina wins the Robert W. Work award for demonstrating excellence in the field of polymer science.

We welcome a new graduate student, Marc Rocco, to the group.

July 2006
We welcome a new post doc, Rene Kogler, to the group.

Scott is sponsored by the NSF to attent the Pan-American Studies Institute workshop on Transmission Electron Microscopy, in Santiago, Chile.

Chris and Erik passed their A exams.

June 2006:

Andrew's paper on fluorescent silica particles for chemical sensing is the cover article in Small .

Andrew and Marleen passed their A exams.

May 2006
Yoong Kim received her MEng degree.

Zach, Brian, Aaron, Tara and Dan graduated with Materials Science & Engineering degrees.

Raluca graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Matt received a degree in Chemistry.

Erik received a poster award at the Polymer Outreach Program symposium.

April 2006
Matt Perkins won the Morris K. Udall award (www.udall.gov) for his commitment to improving the environment.

March 2006
Phong and Surbhi got married!

Ithaca Times: Grad Students for the Environment