Where are they now? Former graduate student Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Ph.D. 2001, is currently Asst. Professor of Physical Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara. Former graduate student Erik Barthel, Ph.D. 2003, received an MD from USC and is now doing a surgical residence. Former postdoc Ignacio Martini is now the Assistant Director of the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center in charge of Materials Research. Former undergraduate student Sean Roberts is presently a graduate student at MIT in Andrei Tokmakoff‘s group. Former undergraduate student Ryan Young is currently in graduate school at Berkeley working in Dan Neumark‘s group. Former undergraduate student Darcy Wanger is currently in graduate school at MIT in Moungi Bawendi‘s group. Former postdoctoral fellow Elizabeth (Betsy) Raymond is currently an Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at Western Washington University. Former graduate student Mike Bedard-Hearn is currently a postdoc at the University of Texas in Peter Rossky‘s group.
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Back row, from left to right: Peiqi Wu, Taylor Aubry-Komin, Chen-Chen Zho, Andy Vong, Ben Taggart, Wil Narvaez, Sanghyun Park
Front row, from left to right: Dane Stanfield, Devon Widmer (with daughter Mei), Ben Schwartz, Tyler Scholes, Matthew Voss, Erik Farr, Matt Fontana
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The Schwartz Group in May 2000. From left to right: Ben Schwartz, Erik Barthel, Ian Craig, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Damian Aherne, Ignacio Martini, Evish Kamrava
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