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Lisa Tran successfully defends thesis! (April 2018)
Lisa Tran awarded 2018 Elias Burstein Prize "for the exquisite control and deep understanding of complex liquid crystalline materials." (March 2018)
Lisa Tran accepts faculty position at Bryn Mawr! (February 2018)
Lisa Tran chosen as a Simons Junior Fellow! (December 2017)
Lisa Tran takes fifth place in Nikon Small World in Motion Competition! (September 2017)
Tom Machon accepts faculty position at University of Bristol! (July 2017)
Lisa Tran awarded American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship! (May 2017)
Former Postdoc Mohamed Gharbi accepts faculty position at UMass Boston! (May 2017)
Former student Carl Modes accepts Research Group Leader Position at MPI Dresden! (April 2017)
Max Lavrentovich accepts faculty position at University of Tennessee Knoxville! (April 2017)
Lisa Tran receives Dissertation Completion Award from the School of Arts and Sciences! (March 2017)
Graduate Student Lisa Tran chosen as GSNP Student Award Finalist. (December 2016)
Ex-Postdoc Chris Santangelo wins 2017 GSOFT Early Career Award For seminal theoretical contributions exploiting geometry and topology to understand the elasticity of soft materials. (October 2016)
Daniel Beller wins 2016 Glenn Brown Dissertation Prize of the International Liquid Crystal Society For his outstanding theoretical work to identify the rich possibilities and outcomes of controlling defects in nematic and smectic liquid crystals under a variety of boundary conditions. The demonstration of the well controlled disclinations and focal conics is expected to open up a novel route for self-assembly in soft-ordered materials . (June 2016)
Tom Machon arrives from England. Welcome! (May 2016)
Sabetta Matsumoto accepts faculty position at Georgia Tech! (May 2016)
Francesca Serra accepts faculty position at Johns Hopkins University! (March 2016)
Randy Kamien awarded G.W. Gray Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society. (February 2016)
Hillel Aharoni arrives from Jerusalem. Welcome! (August 2015)
Tingting Gong chosen as Apker Award Finalist! (July 2015)
Tingting Gong chosen as 2015 Dean's Scholar! (January 2015)
Max Lavrentovich arrives from Cambridge, MA. Welcome! (September 2014)
Daniel Sussman receives American Philosophical Society Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Advanced Materials! (June 2014)
Tingting Gong chosen as a Vagelos Challenge Awardee! (May 2014)
Ex-postdoc Simon Čopar wins 2014 Glenn Brown Dissertation Prize of the International Liquid Crystal Society. (May 2014)
Daniel Beller succesfully defends thesis. Hurray! (April 2014)
Ex-postdoc Gareth Alexander awarded British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist Award. (April 2014)
Toen Castle arrives from down under. Welcome! (March 2014)
Dan Beller has been awarded the George F. Carrier fellowship in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Science, an endowed honorific postdoctoral position in widely applied mathematics. (February 2014)
Dan Beller accepts postdoctoral position at Harvard University. (January 2014)
Dan Beller awarded 2013 Eli Burstein Prize for "his deep understanding of the geometry of focal domains in liquid crystals leading to novel devices and the exquisite control of topology and topography." (August 2013)
Randy Kamien appointed Simons Investigator. (May 2013)
Daniel Beller awarded 2013 Teece Fellowship for dissertation research! (April 2013)
Radmila Sazdanović accepts faculty position at North Carolina State University! (February 2013)
Natalie Arkus awarded Penn Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity. (November 2012)
Natalie Arkus and Simon Čopar arrive from New York and Ljubljana, respectively. Welcome! (October 2012)
Sabetta Matsumoto wins 2012 Glenn Brown Dissertation Prize of the International Liquid Crystal Society for highly creative application of analytical mathematics combined with deep geometric insight to an especially interesting variety of problems in liquid crystal physics. (July 2012)
Bryan Chen defends thesis. Hurray! (April 2012)
Bryan Chen accepts postdoctoral position at Leiden University. (April 2012)
Graduate Student Bryan Chen chosen as GSNP Student Award Finalist. (December 2011)
Bryan Chen awarded the 2011 Herbert B. Callen Prize "For his groundbreaking application of topological methods to characterize and identify order in liquid crystalline materials." (August 2007)
Gareth Alexander accepts faculty position at University of Warwick. (June 2011)
Bryan Chen wins 2nd place in UPenn Art of Research Graduate Symposium speaking on the The River Banks of Ellsworth Kelly's Seine. (May 2011)
Sabetta Matsumoto defends thesis. Congratulations! (April 2011)
Dan Beller awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2011-2014. (April 2011)
Bryan Chen awarded Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for 2011-2012. (March 2011)
Dan Beller awarded Department of Physics and Astronomy's 2011 Werner B. Teutsch Prize, Awarded annually to the graduate student who, by his or her performance in the first year courses, shows the most promise for outstanding achievement in research. (March 2011)
Sabetta Matsumoto accepts fellowship at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. (January 2011)
Randy Kamien awarded Samsung Mid-Career Award from the International Liquid Crystal Society. (June 2010)
Sabetta Matsumoto awarded 2010 Eli Burstein Prize, "For imaginative application of elasticity theory to nonlinear pattern formation at the nanoscale and for its connection to and corroboration by experiment." (May 2010)
Bryan Chen awarded Dean's Research Fellowship for 2010-2011. (April 2010)
Sabetta Matsumoto is chosen for GSNP Student Speaker Award! (March 2010)
Graduate Student Sabetta Matsumoto chosen as GSNP Student Award Finalist. (December 2009)
Cleverson Filgueiras successfully defends thesis! (November 2009)
Vincenzo Vitelli accepts faculty position at Leiden University. (April 2009)
Bryan Chen awarded Department of Physics and Astronomy's 2008 Werner B. Teutsch Prize, Awarded annually to the graduate student who, by his or her performance in the first year courses, shows the most promise for outstanding achievement in research. (September 2008)
Carl Modes accepts a post-doctoral position at the Cavendish Laboratory for Fall 2008. (July 2008)
Graduate Student Carl Modes chosen as GSNP Student Award Finalist. (December 2007)
Randy Kamien supervised a math club at the Meadowbrook School in Abington, PA (November 2007).
Vincenzo Vitelli to give Invited Talk at 2008 APS March Meeting. (October 2007)
Vincenzo Vitelli awarded the 2007 Herbert B. Callen Prize "For his insightful work on the interplay between geometry and superfluid order." (August 2007)
Randy Kamien gives lecture on tiling at the "Physics is for Kids Barbecue" in Aspen, CO (August 2007) [click here for the whole show].
Greg Grason accepts faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (June 2007)
Sabetta Matsumoto elected to Phi Beta Kappa. (April 2007)
Sabetta Matsumoto awarded the William E. Stephens Memorial Prize, Awarded annually to the graduating physics major who has demonstrated, during the course of his or her undergraduate course work, the most promise for a successful career as a scientist based on overall performance in all aspects of the undergraduate program as judged by members of the physics faculty. (March 2007)
Chris Santangelo accepts faculty position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (August 2006)
Chris Santangelo receives the 2006 Glenn H. Brown Prize from the International Liquid Crystal Society for "illuminating theories on the importance of fluctuations on the elasticity of liquid crystalline lamellar phases and fluid membranes." (April 2006)

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