Faculty and Student Team Research Award at ChemMatCARS (FaSTRAC)
NSF’s ChemMatCARS at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is sponsoring summer research experiences for faculty and students from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Alaska Native-Serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNHSIs) and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs). The purpose of our program is to provide MSI faculty members and their research students with hands-on experience and one-on-one training, thereby increasing their use of NSF’s ChemMatCARS facility and establishing long-term collaborations between scientists in MSIs and NSF’s ChemMatCARS.
Faculty-student team from Hope College discovers the orientation packing of clusters of nanoparticles by using X-ray diffraction
Professor Yu-Sheng Chen welcomed Assistant Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech and her student, rising sophomore Nicholas Figueroa, from the Department of Chemistry at Hope College, an all-undergraduate institution in Holland, Michigan. Figueroa spent six weeks at the...
Welcome back! 2022 FaSTRAC and GSRAC program
After a hiatus of two years due to the pandemic, we have welcomed FaSTRAC and GSRAC recipients on-site this summer. Assistant Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech and her student, Nicholas Figueroa, from Department of Chemistry in Hope College will be hosted by Professor...
Faculty-student team from University of Illinois at Chicago designs lipid-based drug delivery systems
Associate Professor Ying Liu and two of her doctoral students, Tiep Pham and Paola León-Plata, had an idyllic summer. They traded their busy urban campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for six weeks on the Argonne prairie, where they could focus on...
Paola Léon-Plata
León-Plata is taking her turn at gaining exposure to other projects in Liu’s lab, learning the techniques her labmate Pham is using: reflectivity and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. León-Plata came to Chicago with a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from...
Tiep Pham
Pham is in her fifth year of doctoral studies, following undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has been developing nanoparticle formulations to target drug delivery and sustain drug release. She adapted the...
Ying Liu
Liu leads a research group focused on nanotechnologies and biomaterials for biomedical applications within the Chemical Engineering Department at UIC. The liu group preciously applied X-ray scattering to understand the self-assembly kinetics of the nanoparticles....
Claflin University Professor and Undergrad Use Microcrystallography to Screen Candidate Materials for Nonlinear Optics
A chemistry professor and a student researcher from Claflin University have made the first link in bringing big science to a small city in South Carolina. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jie Ling and junior biology major Dawanye Burgess visited NSF’s ChemMatCARS for...
Faculty-student team from City College of New York investigates phenomena that could help improve efficiency of therapeutic proteins
Chemical engineering professor Raymond Tu and his Ph.D. student Ankit Deepak Kanthe arrived at NSF’s ChemMatCARS at the beginning of June 2018 as synchrotron neophytes. At the end of June, they left as well-initiated users with publishable data related to the...
2017 Faculty and Student Team Research Award at ChemMatCARS (FaSTRAC)
Left to right: Dr. Yu-Sheng Chen, Dr. Binhua Lin, Skye Fortier, and Jesse Murillo ChemMatCARS hosted Professor Skye Fortier and his student Jesse Murillo from the University of Texas at El Paso for the 2017 Faculty and Student Team Research Award at ChemMatCARS...
2016 Faculty and Student Team Research Award at ChemMatCARS (FaSTRAC)
This year, ChemMatCARS conducted its first annual Faculty and Student Team Research Award at ChemMatCARS (FaSTRAC). This program creates research collaborations between ChemMatCARS and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) such as Historically Black Colleges and...