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Ivan Smalyukh has been elected as winner of 2021 Langmuir Lectureship Award from Langmuir and the ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry The award recognizes individuals working in the interdisciplinary field of colloid and surface chemistry. See more...

Ivan Smalyukh has been elected as a Fellow of SPIE for his scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. He is honored for his technical achievements and his service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular. See more...

Smalyukh's research team received Lab Venture Challenge award

Ye Yuan defended his thesis. Cogratulations!

Changda (Darren) Liu was awarded Departmental Latin Honors designation, summa cum laude. Congratulations!

Hayley R. O. Sohn and her research were featured at the MSE program's website. Congratulations!

Ghadah H. Sheetah defended her thesis. Congratulations!

Our team was selected as the winner of 2018 NASA iTech Energy Cycle for its innovative energy projects and ideas. Videostream of 2018 NASA iTech Cycle II Energy Forum.

Ivan Smalyukh has been selected as the recipient of the ILCS Mid-Career Award (Samsung & LG) at the 27 th International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC 2018) to be held in Kyoto in recognition of his outstanding research achievements and making significant contributions to the liquid crystal science and technology.