Extensive hands-on research is integral to a Harvey Mudd education, but it doesn\u2019t end there. The College is committed to teaching students how to communicate their findings effectively and professionally through top-notch written work, posters and presentations.<\/p>\n
Chemistry students Sejal Shah \u201914 and Anastasia Patterson \u201914 recently earned Best Poster awards at the Materials Research Society national meeting in San Francisco.\u00a0Their poster, titled \u201cCoupling of a Homologous Series of Porphyrin Dyes to Zinc Oxide Nanorod and Nanotube Photoanodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells,\u201d illustrates fundamental studies on easily manufactured low-cost alternatives to silicon solar cells. Shah and Patterson were in Symposium B, Organic and Inorganic Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.<\/p>\n
Their faculty advisor is Hal Van Ryswyk, professor of chemistry and department chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cSejal and Anastasia were clearly the center of attention at the poster session, fielding questions on both their own work and the overall arc of the project,\u201d said Van Ryswyk. Co-authors on the research are Emily Ross \u201914, Mo\u00a0Zhao \u201916, Amy\u00a0Konsza \u201912, Samantha Fisher \u201912, Laura Collins \u201911, Chiara Giammanco \u201910, Mark Hendricks \u201910, Ha Seong Kim \u201911, Daniel O’Neil \u201911, Trevor McQueen \u201909, Nancy Eisenmenger \u201909 and Ryan Pakula \u201909.<\/p>\n
Van Ryswyk lauded Shah for \u201ca breadth and depth of experience that is uncommon in an undergraduate researcher,\u201d and noted that Patterson, a more recent addition to the project team, has created \u201cbeautiful zinc oxide nanotubes that previously required multiple trips to the Stanford Nanofabrication Laboratory to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s only when they get outside of Harvey Mudd that they see just what they have accomplished,\u201d said Van Ryswyk.<\/p>\n
Along with Patterson and Shah, Mudd chemistry students Sara Tweedy \u201914, Marie Kirkegaard \u201915 and Christian Stevens \u201914 have all garnered national awards at scientific conventions during the past year.<\/p>\n
The Materials Research Society is an organization of materials researchers from academia, industry and government that promotes communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research to improve the quality of life.\u00a0The MRS has over 16,000 members in more than 70 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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