December 2024 - Xiaojin is the inaugural winner of the Warren Huff Clay Science Pathway Award. This new award of the Clay Minerals Society aims to "recognize the next generation of clay scientists".
November 2024 - Caridad wins an ACS GEOC Student Travel Award.
August 2024 - Zhanar's paper highlighted by the ISIS Neutron Source. Zhanar's paper on the dynamics of water in the calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) phase of cement was showcased as a Science Highlight of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, where she carried out her neutron experiments.
July 2024 - Zhanar is a candidate for the 2024 Innovandi Nanocem PhD Prize. As part of her application, she recorded a five-minute video summary of her research on water in the C-S-H phase of cement.
May 2024 - Avery Agles PhD. Avery successfully defended his PhD thesis: Biological water: Static and dynamic properties of water in atomistic and continuum simulations of polysaccharide solutions and gels.
May 2024 - Amélie wins the top CEE and SEAS awards. Amélie was selected to receive the Mack Angas Prize from the CEE Department and the James Hayes-Edge Palmer Prize in Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
May 2024 - Ethan wins the Sigma Xi Book Award.
Apr. 2024 - Caridad wins the 2024 Outstanding G1 Student Award of the Princeton Graduate School. This award recognizes "a first-year student who has made an incredible impact in a short amount of time".
Apr. 2024 - Xiaohan wins the 2024 Ellen Gonter Graduate Student Research Paper Award. This is the highest award given to students by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
June 2023 - Xiaohan Li PhD. Xiaohan successfully defended her PhD thesis: Water, salt, organics, and minerals: Improved understanding of aerosol microphysics from a nanoscale basis.
