Category: Research Updates
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Summer Research Conference 2023
Undergraduate researcher Anna presented some fascinating insights for chiral creation guidelines at the Summer Research Conference at UC San Diego and completed her STARS fellowship!
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Anna recognized as a UC LEADS X STARS Scholar
Anna is one of five students selected to be a UC LEADS (Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degree) and STARS (San Diego Summer Training Academy for Research Success) scholar. The LEADS program’s goal is to provide undergraduate educational experiences that will prepare them to assume leadership positions in the industry, government, public service, and academia after […]
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National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
Undergraduate researcher Anna traveled to the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire for the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2023. She presented her research on Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer’s Detection through the Human Eye to a variety of disciplines.
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Science of Art Contest Submission Receives Honorable Mention, Displayed in San Diego Museum of Natural History
In 2022 the UC San Diego Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) hosted the second annual Art of Science contest. This event was inspired by the visually remarkable data sets that data curators from RDCP have seen arise from researchers at UC San Diego. The Art of Science contest invites students, post-docs and faculty researchers, […]
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AFOSR YIP Award
Poulikakos Lab was selected for the Air Force grant, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award. A special congrats to Jiuk, Julia, Shahrose as well as Tamal for their awesome work leading up to this – the preliminary data provided in the proposal was absolutely critical in making this possible! This grant will support our work on nano-photonic […]
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Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) Presentation
In November, undergraduate researcher, Anna My Nguyen, attended the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) hosted by Pepperdine University. She gave a talk about current findings and research on Amyloid Beta for Alzheimer’s Detection through the Human Eye.
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Sam and Jiuk’s Co-First Author Paper
Samantha Bordy and Jiuk Byun’s paper on “Nanophotonic materials: enabling targeted cancer diagnostics and therapeutics with light” was recently published in “Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering.” This amazing accomplishment was achieved by both of them and their hard work. Be sure to check out their phenomenal paper!
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GRFP Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Samantha Bordy as she received an honorable mention from the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program on April 2nd, 2022!
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The Future of the Search for Life
Zaid begins work with the Network for Life Detection (NfoLD), as part of a science & engineering workshop, to brainstorm and devise techniques that will shape the next 20-30 years of exploring our solar system for other signs of life. His focus will be on the surface of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn!
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Nanoelectronics meets Nanophotonics!
Today we had our first joint group meeting with the Bione Lab (https://www.zjahed.com), led by Prof. Zeinab Jahed in Nanoengineering! We enjoyed our lively scientific discussions on the many overlapping and complementary research directions that arise when nanoelectonics meets nanophotonics!