- Layla Booshehri begins summer research internship at Osaka University, in the Osaka Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Summer Seminar Program for Electronic Devices . (July 2008) - Junichiro Kono finishes eighth in his group in his very first triathlon. (June 28, 2008) - Jonah Shaver is awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for 2008-2009 study in France at the University of Bordeaux I! (May 2008) - Jonah Shaver successfully defends his Ph.D.! (May 2008) - Layla Booshehri is awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) for three years of graduate study toward a doctorate! (April 2008) - Junichiro Kono wins 3rd Annual Flying Owls 5K . (April 12, 2008) - The NanoJapan program receives the 2008 Institute of International Education (IIE) Heiskell Award for Best Practices in International Education in the study abroad category! (March 2008) - Tim Noe and Yang Li join the Kono group (March 2008) - Jun Kono runs the 2008 Houston Marathon in 03:25:49 (January 13, 2008) - Jonah Shaver receives RQI award for oral presentation (August 2007) - Layla Booshehri joins the Kono group (June 2007) - Manuscript by Xiangfeng Wang, David Hilton, Lei Ren et al. selected for publication by Optics Letters (April 2007) - Article on Ultrafast Magneto-Optics selected as Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Top Papers of 2006 (March 2007) - Jonah Shaver's submission to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in December, 2006 selected as a 2006 NHMFL Science & Engineering Highlight! (March 2007) - Darius Morris joins the Kono group (June 2006) - Alicja Idziaszek joins the Kono group (March 2006) - Thomas Searles joins the Kono group (March 2006) - Lei Ren joins the Kono group (March 2006) - Bill Rice joins the Kono group (February 2006) - Jun Kono runs the Houston Marathon in 03:29:16 (January 15, 2006) - Diane Larrabee successfully defends her PhD! (January 10, 2006) - Rice News coverage on our work on the magnetic brightening of excitons in carbon nanotubes (January 2006) - Erik Haroz joins the Kono group (January 2006) - Jun Kono receives a $2.2M grant from NSF !! (December 2005) - Jonah Shaver, Ajit Srivastava, Chanjuan Sun & Xiangfeng Wang visit Japan (December 2005) - Manuscript by Sasa Zaric et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters !! (November 2005) - Jun Kono runs the Berlin Marathon (September 25, 2005) - Manuscript by Jigang Wang & Chanjuan Sun et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters !! (September 2005) - Sasa Zaric's work on the Aharonov-Bohm effect in carbon nanotubes mentioned in NHMFL News (August 2005) - Rahul Srivastava receives M.S. degree! (May 2005) - Cliff Wong receives B.S. degree and leaves for MIT! (May 2005) - Jigang Wang successfully defends his PhD thesis and leaves for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory! (March 2005) - Jonah Shaver and Jun Kono visit the Megagauss Facility of Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin in Germany and performed magneto-optical experiments on carbon nanotubes in megagauss (> 100 T) fields (February-March 2005) - Derek van Orden receives admission offer from UC San Diego! (February 2005) - Cliff Wong receives admission offers from Georgia Tech and MIT! (February 2005) - Manuscript by Gordana Ostojic et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters !! (January 2005) - Jonah Shaver joins the Kono group (January 2005) - Jun Kono runs the Houston Half Marathon in less than 2 hours! (January 16, 2005) - Gordana Ostojic receives Ph.D. degree! (January 2005) - Prof. Yong-Sik Lim from Konkuk University Chungju Campus in Korea joins the Kono group as a visiting professor (December 2004) - Michael Zudov becomes an assistant professor of physics at the University of Minnesota (September 2004) - Giti Khodaparast becomes an assistant professor of physics at Virginia Tech (September 2004) - Manuscript by Ajit Srivastava et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters !! (August 2004) - Jigang Wang returns from China after 5 months of exile (May 2004) - Manuscript by Sasa Zaric et al. accepted for publication by Science !! (April 2004) - Chanjuan Sun joins the Kono group (March 2004) - Manuscript by Gordana Ostojic et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review Letters !! (January 2004) - Jigang Wang visits Prof. Munekata's group at Tokyo Institute of Technology and several other groups in Tokyo (November - December 2003) - Yusuke Hashimoto from Chiba University, Japan, joins the Kono group as a visiting student (October 2003) - Manuscript by Diane Larrabee et al. accepted for publication by Applied Physics Letters !! (September 2003) - Manuscript by Diane Larrabee et al. accepted for publication by Optics Letters !! (August 2003) - Gordana Ostojic visits Prof. Takeyama's group at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo as an exchange student (August - October 2003) - Rahul Srivastava joins the Kono group (August 2003) - Jun Kono receives NSF-ITR grant ! (August 2003) - Giti Khodaparast and Jigang Wang give invited talks at the 11 th International Conference on Narrow Gap Semiconductors! (June 2003) - Xiangfeng Wang joins the Kono group (May 2003) - Ajit Srivastava receives M.S. degree! (May 2003) - Ginger Walden receives B.S. degree! (May 2003) - Shanna Crankshaw receives B.S. degree! (May 2003) - Jigang Wang receives scholarship to attend SPINTECH-II School! (April 2003) - Sasa Zaric visits the NHMFL in Tallahassee to use the world's strongest DC magnetic field (45 T) for carbon nanotube spectroscopy (January 2003) - Diane Larrabee visits the research group of Prof. Inoue and Prof. Sasa at Osaka Institute of Technology in Japan (December 2002) - Manuscript by Giti Khodaparast et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review B ! (November 2002) - Giti Khodaparast gives an invited talk at the 2002 OSA Meeting! (October 2002) - Diane Larrabee receives RQI award for oral presentation again! (August 2002) - Manuscript by Michael Zudov et al. accepted for publication by Physical Review B as a Rapid Communication! (July 2002) - Sasa Zaric joins the Kono group (May 2002) - Jun Tang receives M.S. degree! (May 2002) - Jigang Wang receives M.S. degree! (May 2002) - Jun Kono receives NSF CAREER award ! (November 2001) - Jun Kono receives TATP award ! (November 2001) - Diane Larrabee receives RQI award for oral presentation! (August 2001) - Jun Kono receives Welch grant ! (May 2001)
"Rice-led team sheds light on nanotube mystery of dark excitons" by Rice News, January 12, 2006 |