Dr. Valeriia Poliukhova, postdoc in the SEMA group, organized the WCC Luncheon at the Southeast Regional Meeting of ACS (SERMACS) 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Daria Bukharina for her successful PhD thesis defense and also to Botyo Dimitrov for his successful master thesis defense in Spring 2024! Wish them all the best in their future careers!

During 2024 ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA, SEMA member Dasha and Botyo were selected to do their oral and poster presentations while group reunion were happening there with our previous group member Dr. Chunhong Ye, now assistant professor at Shanghai Tech University.

Left to right: Dasha, Prof. Tsukruk, and Prof. Chunhong Ye from Shanghai Tech

The kick-off meeting, hosted on Mar. 14th, marked the inception of our collaborative project titled ‘Organized Nanochannel Materials from Biomolecular Magnetic Organic Frameworks‘. Thanks to Professors Yaroslava G. Yingling and Orlin D. Velev from North Carolina State University (NCSU) for joining this exciting journey into the realms of nanotechnology and biomolecular engineering.

Welcome our alumna Dr. Michelle Krecker back for Homecoming Series workshop and seminar, hosted by Dr. Tsukruk. After two years’ rotational leadership program in industry, she brought back her insights and advices as a principal systems engineer at Northrop Grumman.