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Polymer Science Doctoral Student Wins GRFP Fellowship Award
UMASS Amherst, April 2013. The STEM Diversity Institute congratulates Daniel Acevado Cartagena, a doctoal student in the department of Polymer Science, on winning a prestigious 2013 NSF-funded Graduate Research Fellowhsip (GRFP) to study solution state assembly of building blocks for photovoltaic devices. The experimental approach involves the solution state assembly of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) into crystalline nanofibril structures by a reduction on the solubility of the polymer. His research shows that the fibers form smaller nanowires by sonication and nucleate further growth by adding aliquots of dissolved P3HT. Mr. Acevado Cartagena's work emphasizes developing a fundamental understanding of these assembly processes, and the hierarchical assembly of these building blocks into more interesting structures like electron donor-acceptor segmented nanowires. It is hypothesized that these approaches will provide thermally stable morphologies that offer both excellent charge transport and efficient charge separation, thus providing useful device structures for photovoltaics.
All-Girl Teams Build Lego Robots
AMHERST, Mass (wggb) — Dozens of middle school girls came together at the University of Massachusetts today for the fourth annual “Girls Connect” where they learned to build and program Lego robots.
The girls who range in age from nine to thirteen were grouped into eight teams are coached by adults and chaperons who helped them apply math and science concepts to increase the girls interest in computing and technology. Students from UMass also served as mentors and role models for the girls.
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$1.6m NIH Award Goes to STEM Diversity Institute
03/20/2013 STEM Diversity Institute receives $1.6m NIH award... read more...
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