Ben published a new paper about using colloidal self-assembly to build tunable photonic crystals. Read it here: https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-7-1-253.
Angelina receives a travel award!
Angelina received a travel award from the Society of Physics Students to present her summer research at PhysCon in San Francisco. Congrats Angelina!
Ingrid joins as a Biochemistry rotation student
Ingrid Marko, a first-year PhD student in Biochemistry from WPI, joins the lab for a rotation. Welcome Ingrid!
James Sheehy joins as a QB rotation student
James Sheehy, an incoming Physics PhD student from Case Western, joins the lab for a rotation. He is supported by a fellowship from Brandeis' Quantitative Biology program (http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/quantbio/index.html). Welcome James!
Lab wins the Greg Petsko Prize!
Our lab won the Greg Petsko Prize for having the most undergraduate posters from a single lab at SciFest. Good work Angelina, Guillermo, Kyra, Michael, Olivia, and Zach! Thanks for a great summer.
Read more about Guillermo's work at BrandeisNOW.
Our first night on the town
The lab pressed pause on research to enjoy a night out at Taqueria Mexico.
Rogers Lab | Taqueria Mexico | Summer 2016
Meet the Scientists
On Friday, Ben explored the physics of complex fluids (and made an enormous mess) with a bunch of eager young scientists at the "Meet the Scientists!" event at the Discovery Museums in Acton, MA. It was a blast!
Ben receives a Teaching Innovation Grant
Ben was awarded a Teaching Innovation Grant from Brandeis' Center for Teaching and Learning to help support his redevelopment of the Intro Physics Lab, which will focus on investigating the physics of living systems.