Group Honors
News and Awards
- Cherry Chen: Coblentz Society Student Award - April 2002
- Cherry Chen: Charles Overberger Award - October 2002
- Cherry Chen: Barber Scholarship - November 2002
- Zhan Chen: Beckman Young Investigator
Award - March 2003
- Research Profile in Analytical
Chemistry: "Vibrations in situ", Anal. Chem., 75, 336A
(2003) - August 2003
- Cherry Chen: Finalist, student presentation competition
in the PMSE Division of the 226th ACS National Meeting - September 2003
- Zhan Chen: Dow Corning Professorship - September 2003
- Journal of Physical Chemistry B Cover Article: Chunyan Chen, Cheryl L.
Loch, Jie Wang, and Zhan Chen, "Different
Molecular Structures at Polymer/Silane Interfaces Detected by SFG", 107 (38), 10440-10445 (2003) -
September 2003
- Cherry Chen: Best poster award for polymer physics at
the Annual Macromolecular Science and Engineering Symposium - October 2003
- Cheryl Loch: Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society -
January 2004
- Cheryl Loch: Second Prize, Alan Gent Student Best Paper
Award at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society - February 2004
- Cheryl Loch: Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Fellowship
in Chemistry - July 2004
- Matthew Clarke: ACS Outstanding Graduate Student Award
for Research and Teaching - July 2004
- Zhan Chen: National Science Foundation
Career Award - December 2004
- Cherry Chen: Outstanding Chinese Oversea Graduate
Student - 2005
- Xiaoyun Chen: 2005 PECRUM Oral Presentation Award - June
2005
- Zhan Chen: Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
- June 2005
- Matthew Clarke: Student Poster Award, 2005 FACSS Meeting
- October 2005
- Sarah Spanninga: Dow Chemical Award - October 2005
- Langmuir
Most-Accessed Article January-June 2005: Xiaoyun
Chen, Jie Wang, Jason J. Sniadecki, Mark A. Even, Zhan Chen, "Probing
Alpha-helical and Beta-sheet Structures of Peptides at Solid/Liquid Interfaces
with SFG", Langmuir, 21 (7), 2262-2264 (2005) - October 2005
(go to article)
- Nature
Research Highlight: Xiaoyun Chen, Haizhong Tang, Mark A. Even,
Jie Wang, Gregory Tew, Zhan Chen, "Observing a Molecular Knife at Work", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128
(7), 2711-2714 (2006) (go to
article)
- Chunyan Chen: Honorable Mention in UM Thesis Award
Competition (April 2006)
- Xiaoyun Chen: Wirt & Mary Cornwell Graduate Student Research Award, 2006
- Xiaoyun Chen: Featured Graduate Student Oral Presentation, 2006 PECRUM
(May 2006)
- Zhan Chen, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation
Fellowship, September, 2006
- Matt Clarke: Honorable Mention in UM Thesis Award Competition (April 2007)
- Arthur McClelland: Coblentz Society student award winner, 2007
- Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry May 2007 "Paper
in forefront": Xiaoyun Chen, Jie Wang, Zoltan Paszti, Fulin Wang, Joel N.
Schrauben, Volodymyr V. Tarabara, Alvin H. Schmaier, Zhan Chen, "Ordered
Adsorption of Coagulation Factor XII on Negatively Charged Polymer Surfaces
Probed by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy", Anal. Bioanal.
Chem., 388 (1), 65-72 (2007)
- Xiaoyun Chen: UM outstanding thesis award, 2008. (One of eight recipients)
- Xiaoyun Chen: University of Michigan's (single!) nominee for 2008 national
"CGS/University Microfilms International (UMI) Distinguished
Dissertation Award"
- Our laser "shrine" receives press coverage!
Nature,
Wired (twice!),
and the
Michigan Independent ran stories.
- Anne Vázquez: PECRUM Poster Award (August 2008)
- Stephanie LeClair: PECRUM Poster Award (August 2008)
- Xiaoyun Chen: Fajan Thesis Award for 2006-2007, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Jan. 2009
- Qing Shi: Outstanding PhD award, Tianjin University (2009)
- Qing Shi: Outstanding PhD award, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University (2009)
- Anne Vázquez: American Chemical Society Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Research and Teaching (2009)
- Anne Vázquez: Vaughan Symposium Student Speaker Travel Award
Fellowships
- William Johnson: Rackham Merit Fellowship - September
2001
- Matthew Clarke: GAANN Fellowship - January 2002
- Zoltan Paszti: NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship - April 2002
- Sara Woodcock: Rackham Dissertation Fellowship -
September 2004
- Andy Boughton: GAANN fellowship- Jan 2005
- Matthew Clarke: Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship - May
2005
- Cheryl Loch: Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship - May 2005
- Xiaoyun Chen: Eli Lilly Bioanalytical Fellowship - May
2005
- Cherry Chen: Employment: Senior Engineer, Intel -
October 2005
- Anne Vázquez: GAANN fellowship - January 2006
- Xiaoyun Chen: Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship- September 2006
- Anne Vázquez: GAANN fellowship, Winter 2007- Winter 2008
- Andy Boughton: GAANN fellowship- Winter 2007
- Shannon Watt: NSF Discovery Corps Postdoctoral Fellowship- Fall 2007
- Stephanie LeClair: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009
Thesis Defenses and Employment
- Sara Woodcock: Employment: Senior Research Scientist,
Bechtel Bettis, Inc. - January 2004
- Sara Woodcock: PhD Thesis Defense (December 2004)
- Chunyan Chen: PhD Thesis Defense (April 2005)
- Chunyan Chen: Employment, Intel (Oct 2005)
- Cheryl Loch: PhD Thesis Defense (May 2006)
- William Johnson: PhD Thesis Defense (May 2006)
- Matthew Clarke: National Research Council Postdoctoral
Fellowship (2006-2008, at NIST)
- Matthew Clarke: PhD Thesis Defense (April 2006)
- Mark Even, Employment: Illinois State University
- Jie Wang, Employment: Abbott Research Laboratories, October 2006
- Cheryl Loch, Employment: Prentice Hall, November 2006
- Xiaoyun Chen: PhD Thesis Defense (April 2007)
- Mark Even: PhD Thesis Defense (May 2007)
- Xiaoyun Chen: employment: Dow Chemical, June 2007
- Mark Even: new employment, Eureka College, IL
- William Johnson: employment, Nalco
- Jason Sniadecki: employment, Roche Diagnostics
- Arthur McClleland, Thesis Defense (April, 2009)
