2016

  • Mr. Mingze Sun and Mr. Yue Bao (BME graduates) defend their M.Sc. thesis.
  • Ms. Ying Liu (CBE, Ph.D.) defend her dissertation.
  • Ms. Yan Xia (CBE, Ph.D.) defend her dissertation.
  • Ms. Amani Ebrahim (Polymer Science) joined SAFN group. Amani was a Research and Teacher Assistant at the City College of New York (CCNY), where she also received her master’s and bachelor’s degree in chemistry, and bachelor’s in chemical engineering. Her research at CCNY was devoted to the synthesis and evaluation of engineered nanomaterials as adsorbents of toxic gases for environmental remediation purposes. She is also a recipient of the National GEM Consortium Fellowship, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship and has received honorable mention for the NSF- Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
  • Mr. Donyeil Hoy joined our group as a new Ph.D. student. He got his undergrad from Texas Southern University in the field of Chemistry in 2015.
  • Dr. Nieh gave talks at:
    • 4, 2016 Moderna Therapeutics Future Prospects for Application of Scattering on Characterization of LNPs”, Cambridge, MA
    • 13, 2016 Moderna Therapeutics “A Universal Self-Assembled Delivery Nanoplatform – Lipid Nanodiscs (Bicelles)”, Cambridge, MA