Graduate student Andrew Clark was placed third in the 3 Minute Thesis competition held on November 13, 2019. The 3 Minute Thesis is a competition put on by the Tufts Graduate Student Council (GSC) to “cultivate students academic, presentation, and research communication skills.” The competitors have 3 minutes to present their research to a
Congratulations are in order to Nelaka Govinna who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 24! Nelaka joined the Cebe Research Group in the spring of 2016 and for the past three and a half years has worked tirelessly on his projects. His thesis focused mainly on the applications and fundamental properties of the polymer
Another year and another Polymers for Advanced Technology internship is over. This year we had 4 interns all from Rochester Institute of Technology, majoring in Laboratory Science Technology, and Biochemistry. All 4 worked exceptionally hard to characterize a family of zwitterionic polymers provided to them by our collaborators over in the Department of Chemical and
Congratulations to Jonathan Minoff, Miriam Salcedo, and Eduardo Barrera for succesfully defending their senior thesis projects! For the past 2 semesters all three have been working on research projects in order to be awarded a bachelor’s degree with honors, and boy did they work hard. Jonathan’s project focused on measuring the dielectric properties of poly(vinylidene
It’s been a stellar spring semester for the Cebe Research Group, with 3 papers published from January to March. And to add to that both current graduate students will be recognized at the 21st Annual Graduate Student Awards Ceremony, for winning awards for their work. Andrew Clark was named one of the winners of the
March 22 is the United Nations recognized World Water Day, a day to recognize the ongoing work in providing water to all peoples by 2030. In recognition of World Water Day, the online campus news source Tufts Now covered the work done by graduate student Nelaka Govinna in collaboration with the group of Professor Ayse
Every year the American Physical Society holds a March Meeting which is focused on all things condensed matter, from superconductors, to quantum computers, and (you guessed it) polymers! Physicists from all over the world come to present their work by giving poster presentations and talks, as well as network and possibly form collaborations. This year
This spring semester the Cebe Research Group is excited to be joined by Isadora “Izzy” Shamah and Emily DeWolf. Izzy and Emily are both sophomores in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. They will be working on projects related to electrospinning poly-caprolactone (PCL) this semester. With the addition of Emily and Izzy the total number
The work carried out by Nelaka Govinna investigating the thermal and structural properties of electrospun nanofibers of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) blended with a highly fluorinated copolymer was accepted to the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B. Physics. This publication is the culmination of a research collaboration with the Asatekin group of the Tufts University Chemical