Every spring, REACT Fellows who will be doing research at GIANT for the upcoming summer present teaching talks that serve as the foci for a REACT-Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshop. Presenters get specific feedback on their presentations from the audience; the audience engages in a broader discussion of…
ACT 3 co-leader, Zahra Fakhraai, Associate Professor in Chemistry, was honored by the American Physical Society for her “exceptional investigations of surface effects in polymer glasses and amyloid aggregation.” She presented the Dillon Medal talk at the APS’ March Meeting in Boston.
Connor Bilchak joined Zahra Fakhraai’s group as a REACT postdoctoral Fellow. Connor, who received his PhD in the Chemical Engineering Department at Columbia University, will be working on both the water and energy ACTs.
Congratulations to ACT 3 co-leader, Christopher Murray, Richard Perry University Professor and professor in Materials Science and Chemistry for his election to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2019.
Saïd Sadki, from the University Grenoble Alpes and CEA-Grenoble, shared his research in a Polymer Seminar Series talk (“Bottom-Up conjugated/conducting polymers-coated Silicon Nanostructures for Integrated On-chip EDLCs and Batteries”; January 18, 2019). This was an exciting finale to a week of intense research discussion and student mentorship during which Penn’s…
French colleagues Patrice Rannou, David Riassetto and Said Sadki’s visit to Penn extended much beyond their participation in the REACT@Penn Symposium in January 2019. Through the week, they met with students and faculty about ongoing research and with a group of REACT students over breakfast to chat about best practices…
Steven Cheng and Drew Wang became REACT Fellows starting January 2019. Stephen is a 1st year PhD student under Shu Yang and will be working on structures for water management (ACT 1). Drew is a 2nd year PhD student working on energy storage (ACT 3) under Karen Winey.
The Annual REACT@Penn symposium (“Policy, Technology and Science for Global Challenges”) brought together researchers and policy experts at Penn’s Perry World House. The talks and photos from the January 14, 2019 event can be viewed here.
On November 1 and 6, 2018, teams of Penn students travelled to Villanova University and Bryn Mawr College. Together, with students from Villanova and BMC who had participated in the GIANT International Internship Programme through REACT during summer 2018, the students presented their research projects and experiences in Grenoble, France.…
Our three French student summer researchers presented their work in a symposium with the Singh Center REU students in August. Lauriane also presented her project to the visiting Scientific Director of CNRS, who was visiting Solvay. CNRS, Solvay and a couple of REACT’s Penn-based labs collaborated on two of these…