Dr. Subhankar Mandal received the outstanding mentor award for the huge impact he made on a summer undergraduate researcher. Congratulations Subhankar!
Dr. Carson Bruns has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Congratulations to the team!
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!
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!
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!
The whole group got out on that ice! Thanks to first-year PhD student Joshua Coffie for organizing the first Bruns Group Ice Skating event.
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!
Femke, Neely, and Aseem put together a large-scale demonstration showing how slide-ring polymers dissipate stress so effectively. Thanks for inspiring the next generation Femke Neely and Aseem! Full story here.
Bruns received an NSF CAREER award to systematically investigate the intradermal biocompatibility of engineered nanoparticles for the sake of developing smart tattoos that improve human health. The five-year project will help establish the lab’s core competencies bionanotechnology. Read the story here.
ATLAS PhD Students Kailey Shara and Purnendu have both passed their comprehensive exams. Only one milestone left before the PhD.
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.
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!
Thanks to student nominations, Carson is one of the recipients of the 2022 University of Colorado Boulder Graduate School’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. Full story here.
Kailey Shara, 4th-year PhD student in ATLAS, and her business partner Aditya Rengaswamy have taken home the top prize at the New Venture Challenge (NVC), CU Boulder’s top-20 ranked collegiate entrepreneurship competition. The prestigious prize for Kailey’s fantastic pitch comes with a $45,000 check. Full article here. Congratulations Kailey!
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!
Purnendu has accepted an internship position with Meta Reality Labs where he will work on engineering the next generation of interactive devices. Congratulations Purnendu!
The Beverly Sears Student Grant Fund is a competitive award for graduate students. Purnendu won $1000 in this year’s competition. Congratulations Purnendu!
Jesse Butterfield (Mechanical Engineering) and Karan Dikshit (Materials Science and Engineering) have both passed their comprehensive exams. Congratulations, PhD candidates!
Check out the latest story covering our work in the Fall 2021 issue of The Coloradoan.