Author: Xiaoyan Tan

Xiaoyan attended the Gordon Research Conference- Solid State Chemistry at Colby-Sawyer College, NH

07/24/2022-07/29/2022: Xiaoyan attended the Gordon Research Conference- Solid State Chemistry at Colby-Sawyer College, NH. Thank Shiv and Arthur for hosting such a great conference. Xiaoyan met many new people, reconnected with the solid-state community, and learned a lot from other solid-state chemists.

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Callista’s paper (Zach co-author) is published in Chemistry of Material! Congratulations!

Callista’s paper (Zach co-author) is published in Chemistry of Material! Congratulations! It was a great collaboration project (funded by 4-VA) with Prof. Susan M. Kauzlarich (UC-Davis), Prof. Prasanna V. Balachandran (UVA), and Prof. Nirmal J. Ghimire (GMU). Thanks to all who contributed in.

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Congratulations to Callista

Congratulations to Callista for winning both the departmental General Chemistry Teaching Award and Ph.D. Graduate Student Research Award! Keep up the good work.

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Zach and Haruka presented posters at the departmental graduate and undergraduate poster symposium

Zach and Haruka presented posters at the departmental graduate and undergraduate poster symposium. Good work.

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Congratulations to Haruka for winning the best poster award

Congratulations to Haruka for winning the best poster award at this year’s College of Science Undergraduate Research Colloquium.

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Xiaoyan gave a seminar talk at Duquesne University

Xiaoyan gave a seminar talk at Duquesne University. Thank Jen, for inviting me and being such a great host.

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Congratulations to Haruka

Congratulations to Haruka. Her summer research proposal has been funded by OSCAR Summer 2022 URSP program.

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Xiaoyan, Callista, and Zach were performing high-pressure experiments at 16-BM-D beamline, APS, Argonne National Laboratory

03/26-28/2022: Xiaoyan, Callista, and Zach were performing high-pressure experiments at 16-BM-D beamline, APS, Argonne National Laboratory. Thank Daniel, Eduardo, and Guiyin for helping with the experiments.

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Powder neutron diffraction experiments of Callista’s samples were performed at HB-2A, ORNL

01/22-24/2022: Powder neutron diffraction experiments of Callista’s samples were performed at HB-2A, ORNL. Thank Keith and Ovi for helping with the experiments.

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Callista presented a poster at the Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Research Poster Symposium

Callista presented a poster at the Department of Chemistry Graduate Student Research Poster Symposium.

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