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CSENND members visit Eanes Elementary
On March 28, CSENND members from UT-Austin brought Magnifying Minds to Eanes Elementary, where they look at all sorts of natural materials with FoldScopes to see the building blocks of our world and learn about magnification.
Read More →CSENND welcomes Kathryn Riley of Swarthmore as the first CSENND-PUNC Liaison
PUNC is the Primarily Undergraduate Nanomaterials Cooperative, which is a network of researchers who work with undergraduates to research nanomaterials. The goal of PUNC is to help faculty at these institutions continue to do cutting edge research at the highest levels by building a network of collaborative researchers. CSENND seeks to support this effort by…
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CSENND Welcomes 5th grade students from Dunbar Elementary to Temple University
CSENND researchers, members of the Willets group, and microscopy staff at Temple University welcome 5th grade students from Dunbar Elementary school to explore the microscopic world. They got hands on experience with hand-held magnifiers, various optical microscopes, and even a scanning electron microscope. They drew their observations and completed the CSENND mural puzzle as part…
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CSENND Magnifies Minds at Texas A&M’s Chemistry Open House
CSENND researchers and members of the Baker and Yan groups welcome community students to the Chemistry Department’s Open House at Texas A&M. They used educational materials developed with our Magnifying Minds public art mural to help children explore what cannot be seen with their unaided eyes.
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Bob Villwock, Associate Director of Intellectual Property at UT-Austin, guest speaks at CSENND all-hands meeting
Bob Villwock, the Associate Director of Intellectual Property at UT-Austin, attended the July 2024 all-hands meeting of CSENND. He gave a tutorial on what intellectual property is and the patent process, building understanding among CSENND participants as we seek to innovate within the field of nanoscience.
Read More →Guest Speaker Discusses Culture in Mentoring Relationships
As part of CSENND’s efforts to build cultural competency, Dr. Jing Yang attended CSENND’s June 2024 All-Hands Meeting to discuss the role of culture in mentoring relationships and undergraduate research experiences. This presentation was based on her recent publication in Journal of Chemical Education: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00834.
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CSENND Students Engage with the Bloomington Community at the 4th & Rogers Block Party
On June 7, CSENND members from the Ye and Skrabalak groups provided educational and art activities to the community in attendance at the 4th and Rogers Block Party in Bloomington Indiana. This neighborhood is home to Erin Tobey’s Magnifying Minds mural commissioned by CSENND as part of their science communication efforts and activities were inspired…
Read More →CSENND Trainees Host the Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee’s Symposium at Spring ACS
The Symposium “Nanoparticle Heterogeneity: Realizing Strengths by Embracing the Differences” was organized and hosted by CSENND trainees at the Spring 2024 ACS Conference in New Orleans. Speakers explored the topics of nanoparticle synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications to a full room. A reception for speakers and attendees was hosted afterwards at The District Lounge.
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Baker Group member Krista Kulesa Trains Skrabalak and Ye Groups on Legion
Recently, the Baker group at Texas A&M University reported Legion as a new instrument for high-throughput electrochemistry. Now, additional copies of Legion have been created by the Electrical Instrument Services at Indiana University for use as a center-level resource. Baker group and CSENND member Krista Kulesa visiting researchers in the Skrabalak and Ye groups at…
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CSENND, Bloomington Arts Commission, CFC Properties, and Wonderlab host Mural Launch Event December 3
Artist Erin Tobey completed a mural adjacent to Bloomington’s Wonderlab that explores the concepts of size and scale. A celebration of the mural’s completion was held on December 3 that included educational activities introducing the young, and young at heart, to the microscopic and nanoscopic world. You can read more about the mural here. Video…
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Creation of First Mural in “Public Art for Magnifying Minds” Series Begins
Bloomington Artist Erin Tobey has begun painting the first mural as part of CSENND’s Public Art for Magnifying Minds Series. The mural will be located in the alley just west of Wonderlab (308 W 4th St, Bloomington), with a launch event being planned for Sunday December 3. This project is made possible as a collaboration…
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CSENND Members Engage in In-Person Strategic Planning Meeting
From Oct. 5 through Oct. 7, an in person, all-hands meeting was hosted at Indiana University. Students presented their collaborative research as teams in a poster session hosted by the Chemistry Department, along side other IU researchers engaged in materials and nanoscience research. Then, two days were dedicated to strategic planning, guided by Laura Seifert….
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Zhenni Jia from Temple University’s Center for Chinese Language Instruction Runs Language Workshop for CSENND
As part of CSENND’s efforts to promote cultural competency and inclusion, Zhenni Jia from Temple University’s Center for Chinese Language Instruction spoke to CSENND participants about the cultural significance of Chinese names and the importance of pronouncing names correctly. The structure of names, spelling variations, and the Pinyin system for representing Chinese characters were reviewed.
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Bloomington Artist Erin Tobey Selected as Muralist for Science and Scale for All Project
CSENND Director Sara Skrabalak meets with local artist Erin Tobey and Holly Warren of the Bloomington Arts Commission to discuss the science-themed mural being designed for near Bloomington’s Wonderlab and future educational and outreach events that will allow the public to explore the importance of scale in their everyday lives!
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Willets group hosts members of the Skrabalak group at Temple University
Through CSENND, the Willets group hosts Ekta Verma and Megan Knobeloch from the Skrabalak group at Temple University where they collaborate to validate a center-level transparent conducting electrode for high-throughput characterization of plasmonic nanocrystals.
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Chris Welch discusses innovation with CSENND members
Chris Welch of Welch Innovation (https://welchinnovation.com/), an independent research and consulting firm, and Executive Director of the Indiana Consortium for Analytical Science and Engineering (ICASE) met with CSENND members to discuss innovation topics as part of our June all-hands meeting.
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Science and Scale for All Mural – CSENND partners with City of Bloomington Arts Commission
The Bloomington Arts Commission in collaboration with CSENND and CFC Properties is issuing an RFP for a mural to be located on the alley wall on the east side of The Kirkwood Apartments. The mural site is accessible from the alley immediately west of WonderLab and visible from Kirkwood Ave and the B-Line Trail. The…
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Texas A&M Chemists Seek To Revolutionize Nanocrystal Research Through NSF-Funded Center
https://artsci.tamu.edu/news/2022/09/texas-am-chemists-seek-to-revolutionize-nanocrystal-research-through-nsf-funded-center.html
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