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Shahrose Completed his Bachelor’s!
Huge congratulations to Shahrose for completing his Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering! We are so excited to have him continue his studies under the M.S program with a specialization in Applied Plasma Physics!
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Zaid passed his ECE Preliminary Exam!
Zaid completed the first requirement of the Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD program: passing the preliminary exam! Thank you to Dr. Shaya Fainman, Dr. Jesse Jokerst, Dr. Saharnaz Baghdadchi, and Dr. Zhaowei Liu for being on his committee!
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Prof. Poulikakos presents at the Sharp Minds Lecture Series to Local Senior Citizens
Prof. Poulikakos presented the lab’s research to local senior citizens at the Fleet Science Center’s Sharp Minds Lecture Series. Thank you to the UCSD MRSEC for this opportunity and to all participants for their wonderful and thoughtful questions!
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BeWise Outreach Event with UCSD MRSEC
Sam, Paula and Prof. Poulikakos presented the fascinating science of structural color in nature to local women in 7th and 8th grade as part of the BE WiSE Program from the Fleet Science Center with the UCSD MRSEC!
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Paula Kirya: Plenary Talk at Stanford Research Conference
In April, Paula presented our current research on colorimetric metasurfaces for tissue diagnostics. She was one of four students selected to be a plenary speaker for the Stanford Research conference out of the 79 student presenters. Well done Paula!
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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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Paula Kirya selected as McNair Scholar!
Paula Kirya was selected to join the McNair Scholars Program, a big congratulations on this well-deserved honour and huge achievement! We are excited to see all of the amazing research she pursues in the McNair Program! https://ugresearch.ucsd.edu/research-programs/mcnair/about.html
Poulikakos Lab
Nanophotonics for Next-Generation Imaging