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" the initials to their school in molecules. (link)
Ashleigh is interviewd 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
