I joined Cornell University in the summer of 1986, four years after graduating from UMASS in PSE and having spent those years working in
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Persistence of Perfect Packing in Twisted Bundles of Elastic Filaments
A study by Greg Grason and collaborators Andreea Panaitescu and Arshad Kudrolli at Clarke University was featured on the cover of the June 15, 2018 issue of Physical Review Letters. Tomographic experiments probe the evolution...
Di Jia and M. Muthukumar Report Unexpected New Dynamics for Large DNA Molecules in Liquid Suspension
The discovery by Di Jia and M. Muthukumar of a novel topologically frustrated dynamical state of DNA and other charged macromolecules inside a hydrogel is published in Nature Communications, 9, 2248 (2018). The origin of this...
Ryan Hayward - 2018 Finalist for a $250,000 Blavatnik National Award
The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and the Blavatnik Family Foundation announced this week that polymer scientist and chemical engineer Ryan Hayward has been named a finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards in the physical...
Liz Stubbs ~ Best Poster Award FLAME 2018
Emrick group member Liz Stubbs received a best poster award for her poster entitled Functional Deoxybenzoin Monomers and Polymers at the FLAME 2018 - 29th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials...
Research Centers
- NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers (MRSEC)
- Center for UMass Industry Research on Polymers (CUMIRP)
- NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM)
- DOE Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy (PHaSE) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)
- Soft Materials for Life Sciences National Research Traineeship (NRT)
Dissertation Defenses
Jul 18, 2018 - 11:00 AM
Jul 25, 2018 - 9:00 AM
Sep 07, 2018 - 10:00 AM
Student Profile
I moved around a lot as a kid, but I consider myself to be from Mount Pleasant, SC, outside of Charleston. I received my B.S.
