Congratulations to Mirkin graduate student Jungsoo Park who has been selected to receive the Chicago Cancer Baseball Charities at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center beginning September 1, 2017.
Prof. Mirkin has been selected as a member of the 2017 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. You can read more about the program here and see a full list of Fellows here.
Peng-Cheng Chen received an MRS Graduate Student Gold Award at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting, the top honor for graduate students in material science community. Please click here to learn more. Congratulations, Peng-Cheng!
Congratulations to Mirkin postdoc, Jarad Mason, who was honored with the 2016 Omar Farha Award. This prestigious award is given annually to an outstanding research scientist working in the department in recognition of their stewardship, cooperation and leadership in the finest pursuit of research in chemistry.
Prof. Chad A. Mirkin has been named the 2017 Dickson Prize in Science honoree. Prof. Mirkin will travel to Carnegie Mellon University in early February to receive the award and present a lecture titled, “Nanotechnology: Small Things Matter.” You can read more about the award and event here.
Chad A. Mirkin has been awarded the 2016 RUSNANOPRIZE for his invention of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), tiny structures used around the globe for medical diagnostics, therapeutics and research purposes. Mirkin received the international nanotechnology prize, worth 3 million rubles at an award ceremony held on Oct. 26 in Moscow.
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Macfarlane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Dr. Guoliang Liu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University who have received AFOSR Young Investigator Award Grants. You can read more about it here.
Prof. Chad A. Mirkin was honored as a 2016 Dan David Prize Laureate on Sunday, May 22nd in Tel Aviv, Israel. You can watch a video clip shown during the ceremony describing Prof. Mirkin’s research here.
Mirkin Group graduate student, James Hedrick, is a Nikon Small World Contest is a Finalist. You can view and vote for his image here.
Lam-Kiu Fong has been awarded an ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award. The honor recognizes excellence in third- and fourth-year female graduate students whose research focus is in organic, medicinal, analytical, biological, computational, or structural chemistry.