Provost's Faculty Achievement Award!

Professor Bruns is one of the recipients of this year’s Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards for pre-tenured faculty, recognizing his contributions to smart tattoo research. Congratulations Carson!

Carson Bruns
CU Science Discovery STEM Summer Research Experience Concludes for Sam and Ram

Dr. Subhankar Mandal mentored two high school students, Sam and Ram, in a multi-week summer research experience, concluding with a poster session in which the students got to show off what they learned. Sam and Ram became experts at fabricating shape-specific microgels and orchestrating their self-assembly. Congratulations Sam and Ram and thank you Dr. Subhankar!

Carson Bruns
Hello and Goodbye, Nacho!

Exchange student Ignacio Lorente-Montero from University Francisco de Vitoria, Spain has spent the months of March through June with us working closely with Dr. Subhankar Mandal on slide-ring hydrogels for sustainable clean energy. We will miss you Nacho!

Carson Bruns
Congratulations, Dr. Purnendu!

Purnendu has successfully defended is PhD dissertation on “DADHICHI: Electrostatic Manipulation of Soft Matter for Rendering Reality”. Purnendu will move on to a postdoctoral research position at ETH Zurich. Congratulations, Dr. Purnendu!

Carson Bruns
NSF Awards $1.8M for RoboChemistry

The National Science Foundation has funded a project that will allow the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab to team up with the IRON Lab (led by Dan Szafir, UNC Chapel Hill) and the HIRO Lab (led by Alessandro Roncone, CU Boulder) to develop collaborative robots that can provide real-time assistance to synthetic chemists working in the wet lab and improve the quality of life for future workers in the chemical R&D industry. Full story here.

Carson Bruns
Dr. Karan Dikshit!

Karan has passed his doctoral dissertation defense. He will be taking up a position as Senior R&D Engineer at TE Connectivity in August. Congratulations Karan!

Carson Bruns
Dr. Jesse Butterfield!

After a successful defense on April 1, Jesse Butterfield’s PhD Dissertation, entitled “Antiphotocarcinogenic Intradermal Tattoos” has been accepted by the Graduate School. All requirements for the degree are fulfilled at the close of the semester. Congratulations Dr. Butterfield!

Carson Bruns
Purnendu Joins Meta

Purnendu has accepted an internship position with Meta Reality Labs where he will work on engineering the next generation of interactive devices. Congratulations Purnendu!

Carson Bruns
Kailey Wins Big at the Lab Venture Challenge

The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC) is a competition among CU Boulder startups to win up to $125k in support for business development and R&D to help bring innovations from CU to the market. Kailey won both a Chancellor’s Innovation Fellowship and the Audience Choice Award at LVC for CHEMBOTIX. Congratulations Kailey!

Carson Bruns
Purnendu's Shape-Changing Interfaces Are Out!

Following a series of publications in CHI (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), and SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques), Purnendu’s work on “Electriflow” actuators for shape-changing interfaces has recently been covered in a press release in CU Boulder Today. Read all about it. Congratulations Purnendu!

Carson Bruns