2025
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FEB 2025
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Phil Lukeman from St. John's University. Thank you, Dr. Lukeman!
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FEB 2025
Congratulations to Jung Yeon Lee (Alice), who successfully published her article in Small Methods!
2024
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NOV 2024
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Ke Zhang from Northeastern University. Thank you, Dr. Zhang!
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SEP 2024
Congratulations to Qi (Maggie) Yang and Xu (Leo) Chang on receiving the 2024 Dean's Dissertation fellowships!
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MAR 2024
Congratulations to Devanathan Perumal, who successfully published his article in ACS Applied Optical Materials!
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JAN 2024
Our lab member Tiffany has officially passed her Ph.D. candidacy exam! Congratulations, Tiffany!
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APR 2024
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Bruce Armitage from Carnegie Mellon University. Thank you, Dr. Armitage!
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MAR 2024
Women in Science share how they found what they were meant to do. Here is the News page link.
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SEP 2024
Congratulations to Xu (Leo) Chang, who successfully published his research work in JACS!
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APR 2024
Congratulations to Moisés Reyes for the creation and presentation of his undergraduate research at Rutgers' research week!
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FEB 2024
Lab visit at Columbia University.
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SEP 2024
Congratulations to Henry Wisniewski on receiving the 2024 Frank Torre and Allen Taylor Award!
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APR 2024
Congratulations to Manar Moussa for the creation and presentation of her undergraduate research at Rutgers' research week!
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JAN 2024
Congratulations to Jung Yeon Lee (Alice), who successfully published her article in Nanoscale!
2023
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NOV 2023
Congratulations to Qi Yang (Maggie) on successfully publishing her article in Nature Communications!
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SEP 2023
Congratulations to Henry Wisniewski on receiving the 2022-2023 Teaching Assistant Award!
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MAY 2023
Congratulations to Christian for passing his Master's defense and delivering a great research talk!
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NOV 2023
Our lab member Minu has officially passed her Ph.D. candidacy exam! Congratulations, Minu!
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JUN 2023
Congratulations to Quintilian Fields on the completion of the summer internship and giving a fantastic presentation!
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JAN 2023
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Oleg Gang from Columbia University. Thank you, Dr. Gang!
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NOV 2023
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Carlos Castro from Ohio State University. Thank you, Dr. Castro!
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JUN 2023
We welcome Moises Reyes back for the summer as an undergraduate summer researcher under the SURF program!
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NOV 2023
Our lab member Henry has officially passed his Ph.D. candidacy exam! Congratulations, Henry!
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JUN 2023
We welcome Quintilian Fields, an undergraduate summer intern, to our group!
2022
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Nadrian C. Seeman Memorial Symposium.
DEC 2022
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Congratulations to Xu (Leo) Chang on receiving the 2021-2022 Teaching Assistant Award!
SEP 2022
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Congratulations to Tiffany Olivera for being accepted to present at Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in Puerto Rico this Fall!
JUN 2022
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Tiffany Olivera has been officially appointed co-chair for the North Jersey ACS Young Chemists Committee!
MAR 2022
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Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Tim Liedl from LMU-Munich. Thank you so much!
DEC 2022
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Congratulations to Suchan Kim for passing his Master's defense and being the first member from our group to graduate!
AUG 2022
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Congratulations to Qi (Maggie) Yang on successfully publishing a review article in ACS Appl. Bio. Mater.!
MAY 2022
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We welcome our Post Doctoral Researcher Dr. Perumal Devanathan to our lab!
FEB 2022
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Our lab member Leo has officially passed his Ph.D. candidacy exam! Congratulations, Leo!
DEC 2022
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Congratulations to Jung Yeon (Alice) Lee on successfully publishing a review article in J. Mater. Chem. B!
AUG 2022
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We welcome Samuel Annan, an undergraduate summer intern, to our group!
JUN 2022
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Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Chengde Mao from Purdue University. Thank you, Dr. Mao!
OCT 2022
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Congratulations to Samuel Annan on the completion of the summer internship and giving a fantastic presentation!
JUL 2022
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Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Mingxu You. from University of Massachusetts Amherst to give a virtual seminar talk. Thank you, Mingxu!
MAR 2022
2021
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NOV 2021
Our first lab member Maggie has officially passed her Ph.D candidacy exam! Congratulations Maggie!
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JAN 2021
Our lab received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Congrats to all!
2020
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OCT 2020
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Kurt Vesterager Gothelf from Aarhus University to give a virtual seminar talk. Thank you, Kurt!
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FEB 2020
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Chenxiang Lin from Yale to give a seminar talk and a one-day visit. Thank you, Chenxiang!
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SEP 2020
Our lab received the Busch Biomedical Grant (BBG). Congrats to all!
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FEB 2020
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. William Shih from Harvard University to give a seminar talk and a one-day visit. William gave a great presentation with amazing research works.
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AUG 2020
Our lab received the first NSF funding support. Congrats to all! Thanks, NSF, for supporting our research!
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JAN 2020
Xu Leo Chang joins the lab as a graduate student. Welcome Leo!
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MAY 2020
Jung Yeon (Alice) Lee receives the award for outstanding contributions to an Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory, for her efforts in helping transition the Analytical Chemistry laboratory to remote instruction.
Congratulations to Jung Yeon!
2019
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OCT 2019
Our group and the Department of Chemistry hosted Prof. Nadrian C Seeman, the founder of DNA nanotechnology, to give a seminar talk and a one-day visit. It was an excellent talk and we all enjoyed your visit, Ned!
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OCT 2019
Qi Maggie Yang and Jungyeon Alice Lee officially join the lab as graduate students. Welcome Maggie and Alice!
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SEP 2019
The Biomolecular Design Lab is founded at the Rutgers University, Newark campus. Fei joins the Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor.