The Van Duyne Group Northwestern University, Chemistry Department

Recent student conferences and off campus educational travel
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12/2006 Alyson Whitney, Francesca Casadio, and Richard P. Van Duyne are awarded the Silver 2006 L'Oreal Art and Science of Color Prize in Tokyo, Japan

11/27/2006-12/1/2006 Erin M. Hicks attends and presents her work at the Annual Fall MRS meeting in Boston, MA.

9/2006 Kallie Willets, Alyson Whitney present their work at the 232 ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California.

8/2006 Nilam Shah presents her work at the 20th International Conference in Raman Spectroscopy in Yokohama, Japan.

3/2006 Chanda Ranjit, Doug Stuart, Xiayou Zhang attend Pittcon Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Conference in Orlando, Florida.

3/2006 Erin McLellan Hicks attends the Mesophotonics, Ltd. conference in Southampton, England

1/2005- 4/2006 Erin McLellan Hicks is completing research at the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden.

12/2005 Erin McLellan Hicks, Xiayou Zhang, and Jing Zhao present their research at the MRS annual meeting in Boston, MA. Xiayou wins the MRS silver graduate student award.

10/2005 Alyson Whitney presents research at SPIE conference in Boston, MA.

10/2005 Matthew Young presents a poster and receives first prize and an Ipod Nano at FACSS 2005 in Quebec City, QC, Canada

10/2005 David Andrews and Leif Sherry travel to Tempe, Arizonia to meet with Molecular Imaging, a Scannig Probe Microscopy company

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, Niels Bohr Institute Summer Program on Molecular Electronics, 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

6/2005 Matt Young "Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Applications in Nanotribology and High Spatial Resolution Chemical Analysis," Graduate Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Roscoff, France, Matthew Young