Andrew DeBenedictis named inaugural Graduate Summer Scholar

Group member Andrew DeBenedictis has been selected by the Tufts University GSAS (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) Dean’s Office to pilot the Graduate Summer Scholar program. In this role, Andrew is serving as a mentor to group undergraduate Summer Scholar Ian Hunter, whose summer project is titled “Active nematics on deformable surfaces”. This is a newly-created position, and Andrew’s experience this summer will serve as a model for the program as it expands in future years.

Andrew and Ian will work closely all summer as they prepare for the Gordon Liquid Crystal Conference at the end of this month, and the Summer Scholars poster session at the end of July. This summer collaboration will culminate in a poster session presented by the pair at the Undergraduate Research Scholarship Symposium and at the Graduate Students Research Symposium in the spring of 2016.