James awarded NSF Fellowship

March 31, 2015

James Utterback has been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations to James!

New PhD

March 16, 2015

Kyle Schnitzenbaumer has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. His next destination is an Assistant Professor position at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY in the Fall. Congratulations to Kyle!

New PhD

March 12, 2015

Molly Wilker has successfully defended her PhD dissertation. She will be moving on to an Assistant Professor position Luther College in Decorah, IA in the Fall. Congratulations to Molly!

New Publication

March 9, 2015

A Communication describing solvent effects in charge transfer from nanocrystals, led by our collaborators Wei Xiong and the Kapteyn-Murnane group, is accepted to the Journal of American Chemical Society .

New publication

March 7, 2015

A manuscript describing photoactive spinel oxides with our collaborators Nate Neale and Dan Ruddy is accepted to Journal of Materials Chemistry A .

New Publication

Jan. 19, 2015

A manuscript describing kinetic modeling of electron transfer between nanocrystals and hydrogenase and the competing photophysical pathways is accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics .

New PhD students join group

Dec. 5, 2014

The Dukovic group is pleased to welcome Marta Sulima and Leah Hall, 1st year PhD students in Materials and Nanoscience, to the group!

New publication

Nov. 9, 2014

A manuscript describing band gap changes in CdTe quantum dots with chalcogenide surface-capping ligands is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry C

New publication

Aug. 15, 2014

A manuscript describing localized absorption of femtosecond laser pulses in nanostructures, led by our collaborators in the Kapteyn-Murnane group, is published in ACS Nano .

2014 Graduate Teaching Awards

Aug. 14, 2014

Congratulations to Hayden Hamby and James Utterback for winning a 2014 Graduate Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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