Congratulations to Dr. Katarina Adstedt for her successful Ph.D. thesis defense in 2022!

Cngrt to Saewon and Ka:

 D. Nepal, S. Kang, K. M. Adstedt, K. Kanhaiya, M. R. Bockstaller, L. C. Brinson, M. J. Buehler, P. V. Coveney, K. Dayal, J. A. El-Awady, L. C. Henderson, D. L. Kaplan, S. Keten, N. A. Kotov, G. C. Schatz, S. Vignolini, F. Vollrath, Yu. Wang, B. I. Yacobson, V. V. Tsukruk, H. Heinz, Hierarchically Structured Bioinspired Nanocomposites, Nature Mat., 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01384-1

Cngrt to Fang, Saewon, Kat, Minkyu, and Rui:

X. Zhang, S. Kang, K. Adstedt, M. Kim, R. Xiong, J. Yu, X. Chen, X. Zhao, C. Ye, V. V. Tsukruk, Uniformly aligned flexible magnetic films from bacterial nanocelluloses for fast actuating optical materials, Nature Com., 2022, 13, 5804; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33615-z

Cngrt to Minkyu:

M. Kim, V. V. Tsukruk, Spectroscopy finds chiral phonons, Nature Phot., 2022, 16, 337-338.

It was such a pleasure to host our alumnus, Marcus Smith, the current Chief DEIA officer at the AFRL, for the day of workshops as part of our Homecoming Seminar series organized by Dr. Tsukruk.

Thank you Marcus for the workshops and meetings with students, staff & faculty — representatives from our LBQT+, black American, and Latino community.