Nadia Krook shares her thoughts on how her involvement in REACT has affected her professionally. In this Penn Engineering blog post, Nadia talks about her research in France, presenting at the French Embassy in DC and the value of REACT’s international and domestic community.
We are pleased that the next group of Fellows will join REACT. Congratulations to Timothy Egbo (ACT 2, ASU – Microbiology), Ayham Maadi (ACT 2, CBE), Wilfredo Mendez (ACT 2, CBE), Christian Tabedzki (ACT 3, CBE), Zachariah Vicars (ACT 1, CBE), Connor Woods (ACT 1, Chemistry). ASU= Alabama State University,…
Scenes from the research meetings and the poster session on January 8, 2018. The program for and videos of the symposium talks are here.
A team of REACT faculty and students gave talks at the Embassy of France in the United States, in Washington, DC on November 27 as part of workshop organized by the Embassy’s Office for Science and Technology. The workshop brought together REACT’s team and representatives from governmental agencies, industry and…
Monday, November 27, 2017 at the Embassy of France in the United States. Photos courtesy of the Office for Science and Technology.
As part of REACT’s informal networking program with Solvay, a group of REACT graduate student and undergraduates were given tours of Solvay labs at the Bristol Research and Innovation Center in November. Hearing from the lab scientists and then from a group of managers provided perspective and insight into technical…
Seven REACT students presented at either Bryn Mawr College (Nov. 2) or Villanova University (Nov. 6). Graduate students gave mini-teaching talks to explain concepts relevant to their research. Undergraduates described their summer research projects at GIANT. These events are part of our annual outreach to encourage BMC and Villanova students…
Fellow Nadia Krook’s presentation of her poster, “Directing the Orientation of Nanoplate Particles Using Block Copolymer Domains to Control the Properties of Thin-Film Polymer Nanocomposites”, by Nadia M. Krook, Robert A. Riggleman, Manuel Marchal, Patrice Rannou, Christopher B. Murray, Russell J. Composto,” was acknowledged as one of the top four…
On October 3, 2017 the Singh Center for Nanotechnology hosted NanoDay@Penn, which brought in ~150 high school students for a whirlwind tour of cool STEM activities and Penn facilities. Our REACT students were quick to answer the call for volunteers, a roster which included a large team of volunteers from…
We had a great turnout of REACT students volunteering for NanoDay@Penn 2017 on October 3, 2017. Not all of them were caught on camera, but the below photos give a sense of the energy that they brought to the event.