Pre-Grenoble safety and planning meeting for the 2017 Cohort (April 6, 2017).
Nine REACT students started their research experience in French REACT partners’ labs at GIANT in Grenoble, France on May 22, 2017. They joined a larger group of international students, primarily from U.S. institutions, in the GIANT International Internship Program, which provides academic, cultural and social programming to enhance its interns’ 10-week research experience. This cohort includes three Penn Fellows, one Alabama State Fellow, and five undergraduates (three from Penn, one from Bryn Mawr College, one from Villanova). Two of these students, Stephanie Barrow and Alena Klindziuk, are returning to Grenoble for a second summer, after a completing a successful summer of research in 2016.
| Name | Institution | Research Area | Host Lab |
| Stephanie Barrow | Alabama State | Antimicrobial layer-by-layer films | Picart |
| Madison Brod | Penn | Macromolecular engineering, synthesis and characterizations of single-ion bottle-brush polymer électrolytes. | Picard |
| Natalie Gogotsi | Penn | Directed self-assembly of anisotropic semiconductor nanocrystals with controlled optical properties: molecular engineering of ligands and optoelectronic characterizations | Sadki |
| Alissa Johnson | Penn | Controlling the separation and the interactions between upconverting nanophosphors and plasmonic nanoparticles in thin-film homopolymer based nanocomposites | Rannou |
| Alena Klindziuk | Bryn Mawr | Size evolution of spiral magnetic ordering in cobalt chromite nanoparticles | Fragneto |
| Nadia Krook | Penn | Thin-film block copolymer nanocomposites with tunable optical properties: controlling the position, orientation, and interactions of upconverting nanophosphors | Rannou |
| Andrew Lee | Villanova | Water adsorption and wetting on nanostructured material surfaces | Riassetto |
| Neha Manohar | Penn | Nanocomposite membranes for water filtration | Fragneto/Riassetto |
| Brielle Weiner | Penn | Antimicrobial layer-by-layer films | Picart |