12/1/05 Jeff Anker joins our research group after coming from the University of Michigan working for professor Raoul Kopelman. |
12/1/05 Three new graduate students join the group, Julia Bingham, Paige Hall and Kathryn Kusoda. |
11/30/05 Xiayou Wins the MRS silver graduate student award at the MRS conference. |
11/28-12/2 Erin, Xiayou, and Jing present their research at the MRS annual meeting in Boston, MA. |
11/10/05 Nilam successively completes her qualifying examination. |
10/22 Alyson Whitney presents research at SPIE conference in Boston, MA. |
10/2005 Richard Van Duyne celebrates his 60th birthday with a successful SERSabaration conference. www.enhancingtheplanet.org |
10/2005 Matthew Young presents a poster and receives first prize and an Ipod Nano at FACSS 2005 in Quebec City, QC, Canada |
9/2005 Katherine Willets (Kallie) joins the group after successfully defending her Ph.D. with Professor W. E. Moerner at Stanford University. |
9/02/05 Alyson Whitney wins the Young Investigator Prize for her research presented at the 3rd International Conference on the Application Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology in Paris, France |
8/2005 David Andrews attends the Niels Bohr Summer Institute and Atomisitix conference in Copenhagen, Denmark |
8/2005 Nilam Shah, Xiaoyu Zhang and Olga Lyandres attend the Third International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS-3) in Delavan, Wisconsin |
8/9/2005 Chanda Ranjit gives birth to a healthy girl, Anuva Yonzon. |
8/2005 Adam McFarland departs to the University of Minnesota to work with a former Van Duyne student assistant professor Christy Haynes. |
12/1 Jeff Anker joins our research
group after coming from the University of Michigan working for professor Raoul
Kopelman. |
| 12/1 Three new graduate students
join the group, Julia Bingham, Paige Hall and Kathryn Kusoda. |
| 11/30 Xiayou Wins the MRS silver
graduate student award at the MRS conference. |
| 11/28-12/2 Erin, Xiayou, and Jing
present their research at the MRS annual meeting in Boston, MA. |
| 11/10 Nilam successively completes
her qualifying examination. |
| 10/22 Alyson Whitney
presents research at SPIE conference in Boston, MA. |
| 10/2005 Richard Van Duyne
celebrates his 60th birthday with a successful SERSabaration conference. www.enhancingtheplanet.org |
| 10/2005 Matthew Young presents a
poster and receives first prize and an Ipod Nano at FACSS 2005 in Quebec City,
QC, Canada |
| 9/2005 Katherine Willets (Kallie)
joins the group after successfully defending her Ph.D. with Professor W. E.
Moerner at Stanford University. |
| 09/02/05 Alyson Whitney wins the
Young Investigator Prize for her research presented at the 3rd International
Conference on the Application Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology in
Paris, France |
| 8/2005 David Andrews attends the Niels Bohr Summer Institute and
Atomisitix conference in Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 8/2005 Nilam Shah, Xiaoyu Zhang
and Olga Lyandres attend the Third International Conference on Advanced
Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS-3) in Delavan, Wisconsin |
8/9/2005 Chanda Ranjit gives birth to a healthy girl, Anuva Yonzon. |
| 8/2005 Adam McFarland departs to
the University of Minnesota to work with a former Van Duyne student assistant
professor Christy Haynes. |
5/05 Jon Dieringer, George Chan, Jin Zhao and David Andrews successfully defend their Qualifying examination. |
| 5/2005 George Chan presents a poster at the Midwest Solid State Conference. |
| 03/30/05 Chanda Yonzon wins Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award |
| 3/27/05-4/1/05 Chanda Yonzon, Xiaoyu Zhang, and Erin McLellan Hicks all attended the annual spring Materials Research Society Conference in San Francisco, California. |
| 03/08/05 Chanda Yonzon successfully defends her independent Research Proposal |
3/4/2005 Doug Stuart attends Pittcon , Orlando, FL |
02/22/05 Xiaoyu Zhang successfully defends her independent Research Proposal |
| 1/20/05 Alyson, Dave, and Jon participated in judging the Chicago Public Schools area 23/24 High School science Fair at Chicago State University |
1/14/05 Doug became the proud father of Colin, a healthy 8lb boy. Update (4/8/05) Colin now almost 3 months old, is now 25" and ~16 pounds. |
09/10/04-12/03/04 Erin McLellan completed research on narrow plasmons porduced by lines of nanoparticles at Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden. Erin worked with Dr. Linda Gunnarrsson (Dr. Bengt Kasemo's group) and Tomas Ridevicius (Dr. Mikael Kall's group) on both the fabrication of the samples with Electron Beam Lithography and the study of the optical properties with dark-field microscopy. |
11/2004- George Chan is awarded the MRSEC Fellowship for 2004-2005 Academic Year in Oct 2004. |
| 11/2004 A new 20 by 10' optical table is installed in our laser lab. The move into the new lab space is completed. |
| 10/2004 Nilam Shah and Kevin Biggs join the group. |
| 10/2004 Jon, Jiha, Adam and Professor Van Duyne travel to the MURI research proposal midterm review. |
| 08/31/2004Amanda Haes finished up her last day of work in the Van Duyne lab. Amanda is currently a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory. |
| 08/23/2004 Professor Richard Van Duyne and former student Christy Haynes were awarded the 2005 American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry |
| 08/09/2004-08/13/2004Chanda Yonzon attends and presents her research at the 2004 International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy in Gold Coast, Australia. |
| 07/04/2004-07/09/2004Amanda Haes and principal investigator Richard Van Duyne attend and present their research at the Bioanalytical Sensors Gordon Conference in Oxford, England. |
| 07/01/2004 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne, graduate student Amanda Haes, undergraduate, Paige Hall, and collaborators Lei Chang and Prof. Bill Klein is featured in an Analytical Chemistry news article, "Biosensor for Alzheimer's Disease.� |
| 06/28/2004 Adam McFarland successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. |
| 06/21/2004 Elizabeth Watkins and Russ Renzas join the Van Duyne group as MRSEC REST and NSEC REU participants, respectively. Nilam Shah and Kevin Biggs, potential group members and graduate students, join the group for the summer. |
| 06/10/2004Adam McFarland presents his departmental seminar entitled, "Using Nanoparticle Optics for Ultrasensitive Chemical Detection and Spectroscopy." |
| 06/01/2004Amanda Haes wins a 2004 Kirkbright Bursary Award from the Association of British Spectroscopists. |
| 05/2004 Matt Young successfully defends his qualifying exam. |
| 05/2004 Erin McLellan successfully defends her qualifying exam. |
| 05/2004 Alyson Whitney successfully defends her qualifying exam. |
| 05/2004 Leif Sherry successfully defends his qualifying exam. |
| 05/2004 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne, graduate student Amanda Haes, undergraduate, Paige Hall, and collaborators Lei Chang and Prof. Bill Klein is featured in on NanoTechWeb.org |
| 05/2004 Professor Van Duyne is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| 04/28/2004 Amanda Haes successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. |
| 03/2004 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne and graduate student Adam McFarland is featured in Nature Materials Research Notes (September 2003), "Ultrasensitive real-time sensing." |
| 03/07/2004-03/12/2004 The entire group attends and presents their research at the 2004 Pittcon meeting in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 03/2004 Erin McLellan receives funding through the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Northwestern University to perform research in Sweden at Chalmer's Institute of Technology for 3 months in the fall. |
| 03/2004 Jiha Sung successfully defends his qualifying exam. |
| 02/2004 Xiaoyu Zhang returns after an extended trip to China. |
| 01/23/04-01/27/04Doug Stuart presents his research at the SPIE Conference (BiOs 2004) in San Jose, California. |
| 01/22/2004Olga Lyandrdes, Leif Sherry, Alyson Whitney, and Chanda Yonzon volunteer as science fair judges at the South Region High School Science and Math Fair. |
| 12/15/2003 Four new graduate students join the group: David Andrews, Jon Dieringer, George Chan, and Jing Zhao. |
| 12/13/2003 Jon Dieringer, Erin McLellan, and Alyson Whitney volunteer as science fair judges at the 4th Annual Science Academy of Chicago Science Fair. |
| 12/01/2003 Amanda Haes wins a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award. |
| 11/33/2003-12/05/2003 Amanda Haes attends and presents her research at the Fall 2003 Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 11/21/2003 Amanda Haes presents her departmental seminar entitled, "Optimization of Nanoparticle Biosensors Based on Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy." |
| 10/01/2003 Professor Van Duyne wins the American Physical Society 2004 Earle K. Plyer Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy. |
| 10/01/2003 Our new laser system arrives! |
| 09/19/2003 Our new reactive ion etcher arrives! |
| 09/15/2003 Our new AFM arrives! |
| 09/04/2003 Our new e beam deposition system arrives! |
| 08/12/2003 Christy Haynes departs to take a post-doc position in Mark Wightman's group at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. |
| 08/02/2003-08/08/2003 Amanda Haes, Chanda Yonzon, and Xiaoyu Zhang attend and present their research at the 2003 SPIE meeting in San Diego, California. |
| 08/01/2003 Doug Stuart joins the Van Duyne group as a post-doc. Doug joins us from Shuming Nie's group from University of Indiana/Emory. |
| 06/25/2003-07/03/2003 Christy Haynes presents her research in a symposium in Sweden. |
| 06/25/2003 Elizabeth Watkins and Paige Hall join the Van Duyne group as MRSEC REST and NSEC REU participants, respectively. |
| 06/2003 Amanda Haes wins a fellowship from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry and Dupont. |
| 05/08/2003 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne and graduate students Amanda Haes , Adam McFarland , Chanda Ranjit Yonzon , and undergraduate, Jonathan Riboh is featured in an Analytical Chemistry news article, "Nanoscale Optical Biosensor.� |
| 05/2003 Chanda Ranjit Yonzon successfully defends her qualifying exam. |
| 05/2003 Xiaoyu Zhang successfully defends her qualifying exam. |
| 05/01/2003 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne, graduate student Christy Haynes , and Karen Shafer-Peltier, is featured in Analytical Chemistry news article, "SERS Glucose Biosensor.� |
| 04/23/2003 Christy Haynes successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. |
| 03/30/2003 Our new Tsunami femto/pico laser system (with doubler) arrives. |
| 03/23/2003-03/27/2003 Amanda Haes, Christy Haynes, and Richard Van Duyne attend and present their research at the American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. |
| 02/27/2003 Adam McFarland successfully defends his independent research proposal. |
| 02/20/2003 Professor Van Duyne is invited to Case Western Reserve University to give the Frontiers in Chemistry lecture entitled, "Silver Nanoparticles: Size Dependent Optical Properties, Biosensors, and Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy." |
| 02/11/2003 Amanda Haes successfully defends her independent research proposal. |
| 12/20/2002 Our new Triple Spectrograph and laser table arrive. |
| 11/01/2002 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne and graduate student Amanda Haes featured in Analytical Chemistry news article, "Triangular silver nanoparticles as affinity sensors.� |
| 10/14/2002 Five new graduate students join the group: Erin McLellan, Leif Sherry, Jiha Sung, Alyson Whitney, and Matt Young. |
| 09/22/2002 Karen E. Shafer-Peltier, a joint post-doc with Prof. Matt Glucksberg, departs to take a position at Dade-Behring. |
| 08/25/2002-08/30/2002 Christy Haynes attends and presents her work at the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy in Budapest, Hungary. |
| 08/14/2002 The work of principal investigator Richard Van Duyne and graduate student Amanda Haes featured in Chemical and Engineering News article, "Nanosized Optical Biosensors.� |
| 06/25/2002 John Gaebler and Jonthan Riboh join the Van Duyne group as MRSEC and NSEC Summer REU students. |
| 06/2002 Christy Haynes wins a Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship. |
| 06/2002 Amanda Haes wins a Summer fellowship from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry. |
| 05/31/2002 Christy Haynes gives her departmental seminar, titled �New Approaches to Surface-Enhanced Raman Excitation Spectroscopy and Nanoparticle Optics.� |
| 04/02/2002 Amanda Haes and Christy Haynes win Materials Research Society Graduate Student Awards. |
| 03/31/2002-04/06/2002 Amanda Haes and Christy Haynes attend and present their research at the Spring 2002 Materials Research Society Meeting in San Francisco, California. |
| 02/20/2002 Christy Haynes successfully defends her independent research proposal. |
| 01/24/2002 K. Lance Kelly successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis. |
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