WHAT WE DO

We will establish a robust, externally funded research group to support innovation in the design and development of chemical and biological sensors using nanostructured electronic and photonic materials. This defense-related effort will be carried out in the College of Engineering and Chemical Engineering department in collaboration with UML's various Technology Centers.

Our research is at the intersection of nanotechnology, biotechnology and green engineering/chemistry with considerable spillover in the area of regulatory/safety policy. This has enabled us to reach out to the local community and raise awareness about sustainability and environmentally responsible behavior (and understand our own blind spots). We pro-actively engage the community in the form of outreach to local high schools and other institutions and have developed meaningful research projects for graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. Importantly, we hope to instill in these students, empowering values and beliefs on sustainability that would result in a meaningful and measurable long term change in behavior.

DAILY JOURNAL CLUB

We restarted our daily journal club in UMass Lowell on Feb. 20 2007.
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Date	Day	Presenter
03/10/09	Tuesday	Srikanth Agnihotra
03/11/09	Wednesday	Sanjay Patel
03/12/09	Thursday	Srikanth Ammu
03/13/09	Friday	Sujit Jain
03/14/09	Monday	Vineet Dua
03/15/09	Tuesday	Sumedh Surwade

LOCAL TEST

NEWS

We welcome our new post-doc Dr. Kyle Cattanach. Kyle comes to us from Advanced Concepts and Technologies, Inc. and will work on carbon nanotube sensors (sensor group).

Congrats to our post-doc Dr. Xinyu Zhang for landing a faculty position at Auburn University! Xinyu will continue to be a key player in the sensor effort.

Welcome to new graduate students Sujit Jain, Sanjay Patel (bio group).

Welcome to Kyle Roberts, undergraduate in chemical engineering (sensor group).