Recent News

CONGRATULATIONS to Greg and Jill Capitosti on the birth of their second son Benjamin, who was born on December 18th! Greg indicates they haven't gotten much sleep lately, but he still thinks someone can beat OSU this weekend ;-) Coincidence?

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Elvin Alemán on the successful defense of your dissertation. Elvin gets the award for having the longest dissertation in the Modarelli group so far at 300 pages! Great work Elvin! Congratulations again Elvin, we're all very proud of you!!!

Elvin and the Boss similing...

The great celebration! (Front, Elvin, DAM; Back, Dr. John Harvey, Tim Smith, Dr. Tuan Nguyen)

CONGRATULATIONS to Rashid Altimimi and his wife, who recently had a new baby girl! We're excited and happy for you both Rashid!

CONGRATULATIONS to Yulin Wu (MS, 2001). Yulin is currently a Scientist with GlaxoSmithKline, and was recently awarded Exceptional Scientist Award!!! Yulin tells me he likes me but he's not quite ready to donate any of his prize money to my personal retirement fund ;-) Congratulations Yulin, we're all very proud of you!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to Prof. Susan Cramer, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry at Grove City College - way to go Susan!!!

We'd like to welcome Dr. John Harvey (Ph.D. University of Akron, Chemistry), who began a postdoctoral fellowship with DAM and Prof. Frank Harris (Polymer Science) in late November.

We also welcome Dr. Tuan A. Nguyen (Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, Physics), who will be performing time-resolved spectroscopic experiments starting February 2006! Needless to say, we are looking forward to great things from the new guys!!!

CONGRATULATIONS former SEED student David Binkley on his engagement to Nichole! Great news David!