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- Prof. Junichiro Kono has been named a 2009 American Physical Society Fellow for "Contributions to optical processes in semiconductor nanostructures, including magneto-optical studies of Aharonov-Bohm physics in carbon nanotubes.” This award will be presented at the APS March Meeting 2010 and will be published in the March 2010 issues of APS News and on the APS Fellowship website. - The Kono Group will welcome four visiting graduate research interns from the Hokkaido University CEED Program in the Fall of 2009 for stays ranging from two to six months. The Kono Group welcomes Takahiro Kinoshita, Takayuki Nosaka, Kenji Yamamoto, and Tomoyuki Taira to Rice University! - Thomas Searles is awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Grant. He will participate in the NSF IGERT Training Program in Nanophotonics for two years! - The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering congratulates Professor Junichiro Kono on becoming a full professor! Jun came to Rice University in 2000 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and rose to Associate Professor in 2005 , and in 2009 he received a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. (July 2009) - Thomas Searles was presented the SPIE Student Poster Award - First Place, by The National Society of Black Physicists for Polarization-Dependent Magneto-Absorption Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, at the 2009 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. (February 14, 2009) - Kono Group Undergraduate Researcher Benjamin Lu is listed as a second author on a manuscript that includes portions of the work he did with former Kono Group Post-Doctoral Researcher Yoichi Murakami at the University of Tokyo. Ben conducted this research as a participant in the NanoJapan 2008 program which is funded by an NSF-PIRE grant (OISE-0530220). ( Abstract & Download Full Text). - Xiangfeng Wang successfully defends his Ph.D! (January 2009) - The NanoJapan Program is featured in a Chemical and Engineering News article on international internships and several NanoJapan participants are quoted in another article on cultural confusion. (November 2008) - Ajit Srivastava successfully defends his Ph.D.! (August 2008) - Layla Booshehri completes summer research internship at Osaka University, in the Osaka Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Summer Seminar Program for Electronic Devices . (July - August 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)
"Visiting US Undergraduate Conducts Research at Osaka University through NanoJapan" by Osaka University N-Station, June 7, 2009 (English Version, Japanese Version) "Cultural Confusion: Working Abroad" by Chemical & Engineering News, November 3, 2008. "Kudos for NDSEG fellowship winner Layla Boosheri" by Rice ECE News, April 2008. "Engineering The World" by NAFSA International Educator, Nov+Dec, 2007. "Biomedical Engineering Student Conducts Research Overseas" by UH College News, September 20, 2007. "Symposium to honor Rice’s Smalley" by Rice News, August 7, 2006. "NSF center to transform sensor technology" by Rice News, May 4, 2006. "Rice-led team sheds light on nanotube mystery of dark excitons" by Rice News, January 12, 2006
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