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REU students (Anya Zakhour, Dillon Singh, and Isaac Rodriguez) of summer 2024 attended and presented their summer research at 2024 ASME IMECE conference at Portland, OR on November 16-21. Many thanks to faculty advisor Prof. Hangjian Ling and the graduate student mentors (Zhuoyuan Leng, Daniel O’Coin, and Shabnam Mohammadshahi).

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Sara Aliyeva (REU student of summer 2024) gave a talk on her research on “Microbial Valorization of Lobster Shell Chitin” in 7th International Conference on Microbiome Engineering at Tufts University, Boston on November 12-14, 2024. Many thanks to her faculty mentors Prof. Tracie Ferreira and Prof. Christopher Brigham.

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Ayssar Farah presented his summer research in APS Fall2024 meeting held at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, on October 18-19. He met his faculty mentor (Prof. Maricris Mayes).

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Ayssar Farah (REU student of 2024) presented his summer research at Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY on 10/7-10/8. Many thanks to his faculty mentor Prof. Maricris Mayes and graduate student mentor Ahmed Abdulai.

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Zach Safford (2023 REU site participant) presented his research at MassURC conference held at UMass Amherst on 04/19/23. Many thanks to his graduate student mentor, Mohammed Shonar.

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Brian McDonough (2023 REU-site participant) presented his summer research at MassURC conference on Friday (04/19). Many thanks to his Graduate student mentor, Mishal Pokharel (doctoral student in BMEBT program) and his faculty advisor, Prof. Kihan Park.

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Robert Serrano (2023 REU-site participant) presented his summer research at 2024 MRS Spring Meeting (https://lnkd.in/eBQkCseg) on April 22-26, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. Many thanks to his graduate student mentor Jennifer Bolibock and his faculty mentor Dr. Patrick Cappllino.

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Yanni Etchi (2023 REU-site participant) presented his summer research at 25th Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research will be held at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Monday, April 29, 2024. Many thanks to his faculty mentor Prof. Maricris Mayes.

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Congratulations to Ethan Ramirez, 2022 Summer REU student for receiving the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Undergraduate Fellow, who is currently studying Electrical Engineering Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. We are very proud of this achievement. I am sure you will receive many more awards in coming years, Ethan.

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Sara Amin (summer 2022) presented her poster at 2023 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, on April 10-14.

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Congratulations to Davis Kamp (summer 2022) for presenting his summer research at virtual MassURC conference on 04/28/23.

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Congratulations to David Kamp (summer 2022) for acceptance of his paper to present in IEEE-FLEPS 2023 conference to be held on July 9-12 at Boston, MA. He will be presenting his summer research in this conference. Special thanks to his faculty advisor Dr. Kihan Park and graduate student mentor Rafsan Subad.

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Aries Erickson (summer 2022) gave a research presentation on his summer research at his home community college (Snow College, Utah) on 09/14/22.

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David Kamp (summer 2022) shared his summer research in his presentation to Engineering club at Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) on 11/22/22.

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Sara Amin’s (summer 2022) abstract on her summer research titled “Developing Redox Booster Materials to Increase the Capacity of Non-aqueous Redox Flow Batteries” is accepted for poster presentation in 2023 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, on April 10-14.

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Maghen Saltzman’s (summer 2022) abstract on her summer research titled “Effect of Composition and Processing on the Multifunctional Properties of Single-phase Structural Electrolytes” is accepted for poster presentation in 2023 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, on April 10-14.