Congrats to William Tait for being awarded the Austin Hooey award from the school of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department!
Dana and Rachel passed their B exams! Congrats to both of you, we wish you all the best with your future endeavors on behalf of the group!
Giselle is selected as one of two Ezra Bridge fellows in 2021. Congrats Giselle we are happy to welcome you to the group!
Paxton is awarded the Austin Hooey award by the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department!
DJ, Danni, Thomas and Victorien join the group as PhD students in Materials Science & Engineering!
Giselle, Sejal and Elynn join the group as Masters of Science students in Materials Science & Engineering!
Uli returns to Ithaca from his sabattical in the Bein Group at LMU Munich.
Congrats Drs. Hesse, Gardinier, and Turker!
Peter passed his B exam.
Peter, Ethan, Kasia, Mun, Qi, Divya, and others attended the commencement ceremony
Ethan passed his B exam.
Mun and Qi passed their B exams.
Peter received a NIST-NRC postdoc fellowship and was invited to give a talk at the Gordon Research Seminar - Polymer Physics.
Paxton was invited to attend the National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Labs.
Rachel received an NSF Honorable Mention.
Kasia passed her B exam.
Naedum received a Cornell McNair Scholarship.
Peter received a DoE SCGSR award to work at the National Renewable Energy Lab for six months.
Paxton received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Mun and Qi passed their A exams.
Ethan and Kasia passed their A exams.
Peter and Sarah passed their A exams.
Fall 2014
Kwan got the Materials Research Society (MRS) silver graduate student award.
Congratulations Kwan!
Summer 2014
Yao, Kwan, C, and Uli attended the Ph.D hooding ceremony.
Yibei Gu got the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) graduate student award.
Congratulations Yibei!
Spring 2014
Joerg Werner was chosen to receive the Howard Neal Wachter Memorial Prize by a faculty awards committee from a group of top students who were nominated on the basis of their outstanding academic and research performances.
Congratulations Joerg!
Peter Beaucage recieved an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Kasia Oleske and Teresa Kao received NSF Honorable Mentions.
Congratulations Peter, Kasia, and Teresa!
Fall 2013
The group went to the Cornell Outdoor Education Ropes Courses.
Summer 2013
Xian passed his B exam.
Teresa passed her Q exam.
Srikant passed his B exam.
Spring 2013
Happy Birthday to Uli's 50th Birthday!
Rachel passed her B exam.
Yao, Kai, Spencer, Yibei and Joerg passed their A exams.
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August 2012
Kwan passed his A exam.
Uli with Prof. Rod Ruoff at ACS meeting in Philadelphia
Uli's visit to Kaist, Daejeon in Korea
July 2012
Juho left Wiesner group and moved back to Korea for continuing work in GS Caltex.
Hiro passed his B exam.
Juho passed his B exam.
Ka passed his B exam.
Uli came back to Ithaca after his 1-year sabbatical in Australia.
November 2011
Rachel was selected for the $1500 prize in MSE Innovation Prize.
September 2011
Xian joined our group.
August 2011
Paul passed his A exam.
June 2011
Wiesner group had a soccer match with Estroff group again.
Wiesner group won by 7-3! Don't forget the victory of the last year.
Congratulate Wiesner group's clean sweep for 2010-2011 TA awards! - Full awards were given to Kwan, Paul and Yao.
Ka passed his A exam.
C passed her A exam.
Juho passed his A exam.
Hiro passed his A exam.
April 2011
Rachel has been selected from Chemistry Department for a prize recognizing the significant research contributions she is making in the field of polymer chemistry
March 2011
Aey has left Ithaca and settled in New York City for her post-doctoral career.
Rachel passed her A exam.
January 2011
Aey passed her B exam.
October 2010
Morgan, Julia and Clover have left Ithaca and settled in Switzerland for Morgan's post-doctoral career.
July 2010
Morgan passed his B exam.
June 2010
Wiesner group at the Hoffman Challenge course (ropes course)
Dolores took these very nice photos.
june 2010
wiesner group had a soccer match with estroff group.
wiesner group won by 6-1 and lenny got 3 goals!
June 2010
Our dear Hitesh left Wiesner group and joined Intel corporation.
Please see Hitesh's happy face at his farewell lunch!
May 2009
Hiro won the first Prize for the poster "Morphology Control in Block Copolymer-Metal Nanoparticle Hybrid Materials" in CCMR-KAUST symposium poster session.
April 2009
Chris won one of three outstanding graduate student awards in Chemistry.
Rachel receives the NSF fellowship she applied for in the fall.
January 2009
A good start to the year for the Wiesner group. Morgan Stefik and Teeraporn Suteewong passed their A exams, they will be marching on to get their PhDs. They both took their A exam the same day, which meant Uli had a long day.
December 2008
Earlier in the month Chris, Erik and Hitesh gave an oral presentation at the MRS Fall Meeting
in Boston, MA.
Before leaving for the break the group had a Christmas party, there was a lot of food and the Gift Exchange was one of the highlights of the party.
October 2008
Wiesner Group vs. Estroff Group Soccer match - Final Score 3-5 after leading 2-0 at the half. A rematch will happen.
Review Article with T. Hyeon et al. published ASAP in Advanced Functional Materials
September 2008
Chris Orilall attended and gave an oral presentation at the first Polyfilm
International Conference in Sheffield, UK.
August 2008
Andrew completed his B exam on the 31st and is now Dr. Andrew Burns. In other news, he got married and moved to upstate NY to work for GE Global Research.
Chris Orilall received a NSF funded fellowship through Pan American Studies
Institute to participate in a electron microscopy workshop in Cancun,
Mexico.
July 2008
Marleen completed her B exam on the 14th! and is now Dr. Maria Magdelena Gerdina Kamperman, PhD - congrats!
June 2008
Wiesner Group hike through the Cayuga Trail (pics)
Undergraduate Peter Bai is selected for a Hunter Rawlings III Presidential Research Scholarship.
Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon (Seoul National University) arrives as a visiting scientist
May 2008
Phil and Laura Graduated with MS&E Degrees
Prof. Jinwoo Lee and
his wife departed for his professorship in Korea
April 2008
Hitesh, Chris and Jinwoo present at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans
January 2008
Erik Herz presented his work at the SPIE Biomedical Optics Conference in San, Jose CA.
Dr. Jingyu Lee is visiting the group from Seoul National University.
December 2007
Wiesner Group Holiday Party (photos)
November 2007
Scott Warren has left the building.
Andrew Burns and Marleen Kamperman presented their work at the MRS Fall meeting in Boston, where Marleen won the Gold Award for her presentation on hierarchically porous materials as well as the Poster Award.
September 2007
The group welcomes Hiroaki Sai, Srikant Iyer and Cathy Li to our labs as first year students, and Mareli Allmeroth as a visiting researcher from Univ. Mainz in Germany
August 2007
Scott defended his thesis, got married and honemymooned
Prof. Wiesner has returned!
July 2007
We bid farewell to the one and only Rene Kogler, with an expedition across Lake Cayuga on canoes and kayaks. The intrepid boaters survived mostly unscathed (though very wet - thanks to Morgan) and enjoyed an excellent afternoon (and a very tasty barbeque - mmmm.. pie)
Scott, Aaron, & Zach's paper on a photochemical method for nanoparticle synthesis paper was published ASAP in JACS
June 2007
Scott passed his B exam
Marleen and Hitesh showed journalists the secrets of self-assembly at the Kavli Workshop
May 2007
Billy, Rahul, George and Kevin graduated with Bachelor's Degrees in Materials Science & Engineering and Liane graduated with a degree in chemistry
Scott was awarded the Chemistry Department's Wentink Prize and Cornell Undergraduate Research Board's (CURB) Marilyn Emmons Williams Award for promoting undergraduate research at Cornell
Chris, Hitesh, Jinwoo, Erik and Andrew presented at the CCMR Polymer Outreach Program Symposium
Michelle passed her Q exam
Website update
April 2007
Michelle and Aey found trying to escape Ithaca by camel (another photo)
Marleen presents her research at MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco
March 2007
Scott's paper on hybrid materials assembly and disassembly is published in Nature Materials
January 2007
Andrew Burns presents at SPIE Photonics West in San Jose, CA
November 2006
Rahul Malik won the James L. Gregg Award for most outstanding Junior in Materials Science & Engineering for highest GPA.
Scott, Andrew and Hitesh will be presenting work at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston
Scott's work on nanoparticle assembly and disassembly was accepted for publication in Nature Materials
October 2006
An invited review on core-shell fluorescent silica particles will appear in the November Issue of Chemical Society Reviews and has been selected as the cover article
September 2006
Scott presented several talks at the ACS meeting in San Francisco, speaking on the topics of metal nanoparticles with liquid-like properties, nanoparticle-tuned assembly and disassembly, and a general route to metal-silica-block copolymer hybrids.
September 2006 - Scott's paper, "Generalized Route to Metal Nanoparticles with Liquid Behavior," is published in JACS.
Marleen received a poster award at the Engineering Research Showcase.
August-September 2006
Yongming Chen, a scientist in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, is a visiting scientist in our research group.
August 2006
Lauren Messina wins the Robert W. Work award for demonstrating excellence in the field of polymer science.
We welcome a new graduate student, Marc Rocco, to the group.
July 2006
We welcome a new post doc, Rene Kogler, to the group.
Scott is sponsored by the NSF to attent the Pan-American Studies Institute workshop on Transmission Electron Microscopy, in Santiago, Chile.
Chris and Erik passed their A exams.
June 2006:
Andrew's paper on fluorescent silica particles for chemical sensing is the cover article in Small .
Andrew and Marleen passed their A exams.
May 2006
Yoong Kim received her MEng degree.
Zach, Brian, Aaron, Tara and Dan graduated with Materials Science & Engineering degrees.
Raluca graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering and Matt received a degree in Chemistry.
Erik received a poster award at the Polymer Outreach Program symposium.
April 2006
Matt Perkins won the Morris K. Udall award (www.udall.gov) for his commitment to improving the environment.
March 2006
Phong and Surbhi got married!
