Monthly Archive: May 2017

New Faculty Alert – Postdoc Helen Zha accepts faculty position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute!

Helen Zha has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. We wish her the best of luck as she starts her new lab researching Biohybrid Materials at RPI. New grad students and postdocs, check it out – lab opens in January 2018! …

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Helen Zha delivers invited talk at the 2017 American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco!

Postdoctoral fellow R. Helen Zha delivered an invited talk at the 2017 ACS meeting in San Francisco. She delivered her presentation, “Self-Assembly of exfoliated monolayer crystals as photoswitchable soft matter,” at the Division of Polymer Chemistry in the Structure to Function in Supramolecular Polymers & Materials session. Congratulations, Helen!

Lab wins Bavaria California Technology Center Travel Award

Together with the Schneibel Lab at University of Bayreuth, the Messersmith Lab won a Bavaria California Technology Center Travel Award to facilitate our new collaboration. Congrats to Messersmith lab post-doctoral fellow Helen Zha and her collaborators!