The Chemical Engineering Department at Michigan congratulates Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick (photo on left, with Chris Iacovella) on being awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. NSF Graduate Fellowships are highly competitive and offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences around the country. Stephanie's research focuses on using computer simulation to design novel ways of self assembling nanostructures for molecular electronics and nanoelectronic devices. She is a member of the Professor Sharon Glotzer's group.

We also congratulate Chris Iacovella on being selected for Honorable Mention in the 2004 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship competition. Chris uses computer simulation to study the self-assembly of nanoscopic building blocks like quantum dots and Buckyballs via polymer tethers attached to their surface. He is investigating the way in which packing constraints and thermodynamics control the morphology of ordered structures formed by these amphiphilic nano-objects. Chris is also a member of the Glotzer group.

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