Category: Research Updates
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2023 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has named Poulikakos Lab as a 2023 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. A special thanks to Jiuk who contributed awesome preliminary data to the proposal and Julia who is continuing research in this direction! This grant will support our development of a new class of nanomaterials with acoustoplasmonic properties.
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JSOE New Faculty Welcome Event
Prof. Poulikakos and Prof. Aguado presented the results of their collaborative Early Career Award project.
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SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference
Professor Poulikakos and graduate students, Zaid, Julia, and Paula attended and presented at the annual SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference!
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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!