Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC)
The annual Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC) program supports two graduate students to carry out their research and participate in other beamline activities at ChemMatCARS over an extended period of 4–6 weeks during the summer. This program allows students to pursue their PhD research and deepen their understanding of the sophisticated synchrotron x-ray techniques and capabilities at ChemMatCARS and the Advanced Photon Source. Preference is given to women and members of under-represented groups (URG), but all are encouraged to apply.
2022 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC): Luis Ortuno Macias, Pedro Bertolini and Xiaotong Zhang
Luis Ortuno Macias and Pedro Bertolini worked with Professor Binhua Lin, Dr. Wei Bu, and Dr. Mrinal Bera. Both are third-year PhD students from the Department of Chemical Engineering at City College of New York, working with Charles Maldarelli. The third student,...
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...
Confidence and Perspective: In-Depth Crystallography Training Restructures Two Young Researchers’ View of Their Work: Abhishek Ravada, University of Rennes 1 and Damola Taye Shuaib, Illinois Institute of Technology
Damola Shuaib and Abhishek Ravada were the recipients of the 2019 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS. In six weeks of learning side by side, the two very different men—one a passionate chemist from his earliest studies, the other an equally passionate...
Damola Taye Shuaib
Originally from Nigeria, Shuaib has known all his life that he wanted to do something chemistry-related. It took a while, though, to find the right chemical niche. Chemical engineering looked right at first, then he explored industrial chemistry and then materials...
Abhishek Ravada
A passionate metallurgist, Abhishek Ravada hopes to make his mark by improving the heat resistance—and thus disaster resistance—of steels. But his conversations and experiments at ChemMatCARS have convinced him to look up from traditional metallurgy to a broader range...
Graduate Students from El Paso, Texas, and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Broaden Their Career Vision in X-ray Science
In July 2018, NSF’s ChemMatCARS hosted two graduate students under our Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC) program. Both took away a better sense of the opportunities and realities of x-ray science—and confirmation that they’re on the right path....
2017 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC) Our second recipient this year: Travis Mitchell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Travis Mitchell (far, back) assisting users with experiment Our second recipient of the GSRAC award for 2017 is Travis Mitchell, from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Travis was the very first recipient of the GSRAC award when ChemMatCARS...
2017 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC) Our first recipient this year: Daniel Amoanu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Daniel presenting his research to ChemMatCARS staff. ChemMatCARS launched its summer development program, GSRAC, May 8, 2017, aimed at exposing graduate students to the current synchrotron techniques and data analysis procedures performed at our facilities here at...
2015 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS: A PhD Student’s Summer Research Experiences at ChemMatCARS
During August 2015, ChemMatCARS welcomed a PhD student, Travis Mitchell, from Prof. Jason Benedict’s group in University at Buffalo to participate in synchrotron x-ray scattering experiments in the Advanced Crystallography for his research training. PROF. JASON...