Congratulations Dr. Emmabeth Parrish!
Congratulations to Dr. Emmabeth Parrish, who recently successfully defender her PhD thesis entitled “Nanoparticle Diffusion in Polymer Networks”.
REACT PI, Russell J. Composto, receives Invited Professorship position for 2018
Russ Composto was awarded a 1-month Invited Visiting Professorship to be used during the summer 2018 from the Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE UGA). He will be hosted in the labs of French REACT researchers, Said Sadki and Patrice Rannou (REACT GIANT PI). This award will facilitate Prof. Composto’s collaborations with French partners, the organization […]
SURGG (Penn’s Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant)
Active Coating Technology (ACT)-Enabled Relief Tents for Natural Disaster, Summer 2017 PIs: Daeyeon Lee, Co-PIs: Russ Composto, Kristin Field, Zahra Fakhraai, Orkan Telhan The team (Undergraduate Students): Griffin Murphy, Kathryn Khaw, Sisanmofe Dorsu, Mauricio Alvarez, Jane Shmushkis, David Gordon Graduate Student Mentors: Evan Dolling, Katie Rose, Shawn Maguire, Connor Woods, Aixi Zhang. Synopsys: This collaborative project brings students from Schools of Engineering, […]
Welcome to Yuanchi Ma!
The group is excited to welcome Yuanchi Ma into the lab! With an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Peking University, he joined the Lodge group for his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. He will be working on biopolymers and biofilms. Congratulations on your recent defense, and we are excited to have you […]
Welcome to our New Rachleff Scholars!
The Composto Lab is excited to have two Rachleff Scholars joining our research team, Theodore Kurkoski and Carlos Medina Jimenez! While their official 10-week summer research experience will begin after classes end in May, both Teddy and Carlos have decided to join the lab in January to start their projects. […]
REACT Welcomes the Cohort of Graduate Student Fellows for 2017
(L to R) E. Lin, E. Dolling, N. Krook, S. Maguire, M. Vettleson, B. Paren, K. Rose (not pictured, S. Barrow) The incoming cohort of REACT Fellows was finalized in November. These eight new Fellows will join the ACT 1, 2 and 3 teams for an expectedly productive and exciting 2017. Congratulations to the below recipients […]