Sykes Group demonstration of a single molecule electric motor featured as Result of the Month on Omicron Nanotechnology's website - February 2012
The Sykes Group welcomes Melissa Liriano, Felicia Lucci, Matt Marcinkowski and Mike Mattera as 1st year graduate students - December 2011
Charlie is featured on a Museum of Science podcast about single molecule electric motor - October 2011
Sykes Group receives official confirmation of Guinness World Record for Smallest Electric Motor - October 2011
Sykes Group research on a Single-Molecule Electric Motor is published in Nature Nanotechnology as a cover story - September 2011
April wins Young Scientist Prize at the 10th International Conference on Structure of Surfaces in Hong Kong - August 2011
Tim receives the departmental Research Excellence Travel Award - July 2011
April wins the Best Poster award at the 71st annual Physical Electronics Conference - June 2011
Sykes Group work on hierarchical chiral ordering is featured on the cover of Chemistry - A European Journal - June 2011
Charlie is named one of the 2011 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholars - May 2011
Allister is selected to receive a 2011 James Flack Norris/Theodore Williams Summer Research Scholarship - April 2011
April wins 1st place in the photography category of the "Visualizing Research @ Tufts Award Program" for her entry titled "Bullseye". This STM image gives both topographic and electronic information about a cluster of molecules on a metal surface. Concentric rings show electron waves bouncing off the cluster at the center of the bull's eye. As you move away from the center, the electron waves become more diffuse and the image appears out of focus. - April 2011
"Bullseye"
April receives a Tufts University Award for Outstanding Academic Performance - April 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Erin Iski for defending her thesis titled "Assembly, Chirality, and Polymorphism of Large Molecules on Metal Surfaces "! - March 2011
April is named 1 of 5 finalists for the Young Scientist Prize to be awarded at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces - March 2011 (link)
The Sykes group welcomes Dr. Georgios Kyriakou from Cambridge University as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Kyriakou will conduct research that is aimed at understanding surface phenomena with respect to heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis, chemoselective hydrogenations, and self assembled systems. - January 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Ashleigh Baber for defending her thesis titled "Nanoscale studies of molecules metals & alloys"! - December 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Tierney for defending her thesis titled "Understanding and Controlling Rotation at the Single-Molecule Level"! - December 2010
Tim is accepted as 1 of 12 students from the Northeast to attend the Jungchemikerforum (JCF) as part of the NESACS/GDCh Germany Exchange Program in Erlangen, Germany - December 2010
Sykes Group is listed as Nanotechnology Thought Leaders by AZOnano - November 2010
April wins Honorable Mention for a video submission for ACS Nanotation Video Contest - November 2010
Heather is awarded the Morton M. Traum Award which "is given annually since 1981 by the Surface Science Division of AVS to the best student paper based on work leading to a Ph.D. thesis" at the AVS Conference in New Mexico - October 2010
Heather is awarded the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship at the AVS conference in New Mexico - October 2010
Emily is awarded a GAANN Fellowship - September 2010
Darin matriculates at MIT - September 2010
April wins Poster Prize at 240th National ACS Conference in the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry in Boston, MA - August 2010
Sykes Group launches their 2nd Youtube video called "Molecular Machines" describing the Rotor Project - August 2010
Heather is selected as 1 of 3 finalists to compete for the Morton M. Traum Surface Science Student Award at the AVS meeting in October - July 2010
Heather is awarded an IFSM scholarship to attend the 17th International Microscopy Congress to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September - July 2010
April wins NASA Board Award for her work on sulfur dioxide detection using polymer-carbon composite films - July 2010
Ashleigh wins Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Catalysis- July 2010 (link)
April wins NASA Group Achievement Award for her work for the Electronic Nose Technology Demonstration aboard the International Space Station - June 2010
Heather wins the prestigious Nottingham Prize at the Physical Electronics Conference - June 2010 (link)
Dr. Sykes is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor - May 2010
Sykes lab STM image of Pd/Au alloy featured on the cover of the Journal of Advanced Microscopy Research - April 2010
Heather receives Tufts Outstanding Academic Performance Graduate Student Award - April 2010
Heather is awarded 2nd place at the 14th Annual Tufts Graduate Student Research Symposium - April 2010
Michael wins best poster prize at Northeastern Section Younger Chemists Committee at Boston University - April 2010
Colin Murphy joins the Sykes Lab as a 1st year Ph. D. candidate - March 2010
Heather wins The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society MPMD Division 2010 Student Poster Award - Februrary 2010
Emily Lewis joins the Sykes Lab as a 1st year Ph.D. candidate - November 2009
Heather is the one of the winners of Departmental Research Excellence Travel Award - August 2009
Tim is awarded GAANN Fellowship - August 2009
Students from Social Justice Academy in Boston visit the Sykes lab and "write" their school initials with molecules. (link)
Ashleigh is interviewed about the Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Germany. (link)
NSF features group's rotor work in its Discovery Section - July 2009
Group's work on Thioether Rotors and their role in nanotechnology is featured on LiveScience. (link)
April receives graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation - June 2009
Group's Outreach work with high school students featured on Tufts New and Events website (link)
Group's work on Thioether Rotors featured on the cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry C - June 2009
Erin wins a poster prize for "Excellent Poster Presentation by a Graduate Student" at the 11th Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference at Boston University.
Ashleigh has been accepted as one of 74 young researchers from the U.S. to attend the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates dedicated to chemistry in Lindau, Germany - Summer 2009
Group's research on catalytic sites on Cu/Pd Alloys is featured on the cover of Journal of Physical Chemistry C - April 2009
Erin wins poster prize during the Young Chemists Committee of the Northeast Section of the American Chemical Society German Exchange Program in Essen - March 2009
Charlie interviewed on his research by Research Coportation for Science Advancement - February 2009
Charlie receives a IUPAC Young Observer award - January 2009
Charlie receives an NSF CAREER award - January 2009
Tim joins the Sykes Group as a first-year Ph.D. Candidate - November 2008
Heather awarded 1st place out of 50 finalists at the American Vaccum Society Fall 2008 Conference Art Zone Competition - October 2008
April awarded a NASA Board Award for her work on 'Palladium Chloride Sensors for Mercury Detection'. - August 2008
The group's research on naturally chiral surfaces is featured on the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C - July 2008
Erin wins the Best Poster award at the 68th annual Physical Electronics Conference - June 2008
The Sykes Lab comes out with an educational video detailing the impact of our hydrogen project on the energy crisis - May 2008
April awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for NTR no 44997: "Palladium Chloride Sensors for Mercury Detection" - May 2008
Charlie named a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar - May 2008
Erin receives an award for the best talk at the 10th Annual Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference - April 2008
April awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for her work for gold on polymer based sensing films for detection of organic and inorganic analytes in air - April 2008
Erin receives an award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education - April 2008
Charlie receives the Beckman Young Investigator Award - April 2008
Charlie appointed as Usen Family Career Development Professor - March 2008
Erin's paper featured on the front cover of the March Issue of Education in Chemistry - March 2008
Darin awarded the Lt. Commander R.J. Manning Memorial Prize and the Max Tishler Prize Scholarship - March 2008
April Awarded a NASA Tech Brief Award for her work on novel polymer based sensors for elemental mercury detection in air - February 2008
Charlie featured in ACS Nano's Episode 5 Podcast talking about thioethers - December 2007
April Jewell, a promising young chemist, joins the Sykes lab coming from JPL - September 2007
Stephen Jensen (A07) matriculates at Harvard University - September 2007
Ashleigh receives the Travel Award for Research Excellence - September 2007
Stephen wins 1st prize for best undergraduate science talk at Tufts Undergraduate Research Symposium - April 2007
Erin is awarded GAANN Fellowship - September 2007
Heather wins “Materials Research Society: Best Poster Award in Nanoscale Phenomena in Functional Materials by Scanning Probe Microscopy” - Fall 2007
Charlie is a finalist in the Materials Research Society “Science as Art” Poster Competition - Fall 2007
Charlie selected as one of 15 young professors to participate in the US-Japan Young Researchers Exchange Program - Janurary 2007
| Stephen's paper is first ever paper accepted by Paul Weiss's new journal, ACS Nano - Spring 2007 |
Ashleigh is awarded GAANN Fellowship- September 2006
Stephen is awarded Summer Scholars Fellowship- June 2006
Group is awarded ACS-PRF Type G Award- Sept 2006
Stephen wins first place in UNCC "The natural World as Art and Science"- March 2006
A First: Hydrogen Atoms Manipulated Below the Surface of a Palladium Crystal - December 2005
Focus on Palladium's Hydrogen Storage Potential - December 2005