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2024 ACS-PRF Award

Dr. Jing has won the American Chemistry Society (ACS) - Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) New Directions (NDs) Award!!! Congratulations!

     


2024 Fall ACS Meeting in Denver, CO

Caroline attended ACS Fall conference held in Denver, CO in August and won Outstanding Student Poster Award. Congratulations!!!


2024 ASSIP Poster Session at Dewberry Hall

Another successful year for ASSIP at the College of Science, GMU! Tejas and Allison (Yutong) did a fantastic job in the poster presentation! Congrats! Wish you all the best!

 


2024 Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (ASSIP)

Two high school students (Tejas Venkatesh and Allison Yutong Lin) participated in ASSIP program this summer are performing chemical experiments in Dr. Jing's lab at GMU. They were actively involved in two independent but interconnected research projects mentored together by Dr. Jing and his doctoral student Au Lac Nguyen. Great work!


2024 George Mason Chemistry Recognition

Caroline won PhD Graduate Student Award: Teaching Focus and Quinn was the recipient of Feinstein Award in General Chemistry. Great job! Congrats!!!

 


2024 George Mason Chemistry Recognition

Dr. Jing was recognized for academic excellence through receipt of "The Dad of the Chemistry Department" Award selected by Chemistry Club on April 30, 2024! Congrats!!!


2024 George Mason Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) Ceremony

Dr. Jing was selected as the winner of 2024 university-wide Teaching Excellence Award! Congrats!!! TEA Link




2024 Advisory Board of Nanoscale Advances

Dr. Jing joined the Advisory Board of Nanoscale Advances published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in January 2024. Congrats! 


2023 Winter Commencement Ceremony (Dec. 14th) at Eagle Bank Arena

Congrats to our second PhD--Dr. Mariia Ivanchenko!!



Undergraduate Students Research Symposium (USRS)_Fall 2023

Quinn Griffin delivered an oral talk entitled "On the Synthesis of Optically Active Gold Bipyramid/Cu2-xSe Hetero Nanostructures" at the USRS on December 5th, 2023. Congrats!!


Graduate Student Appreciation Event

Mariia won the Most Outstanding Graduating PhD Student Award on Nov. 30th, 2023! Congratulations!!!


Research Group Olympics: PumpCHEM Patch

Jing and Dilek groups won the first place of the annual Research Group Olympics: PumpCHEM Patch Competition this year! Smart Design and Illuminating Pumpkin (the one at the bottom right corner made of nanoparticles with different shapes and morphologies)!!! 

pumpkin stem: Au nanorods; pumpkin eyes: Au@Cu2-xSe nano-crescent; pumpkin nose: Au nano-triangles; pumpkin mouth: Au@AgPd nano-rattles; pumpkin face: NaYF4 upconversion nanocrystals; most important, we can light this pumpkin when turning the near-infrared laser on.



Mariia Ivanchenko's Dissertation Defense

Mariia successfully passed her dissertation defense on September 6, 2023!!! Congratulations to Dr. Ivanchenko!


2023 ACS MARM in Manhattan

Dr. Jing gave an oral presentation on the plasmonic nanostructures at ACS MARM meeting on June 09th, 2023 in Materials Chemistry Session held at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center (mid-town Manhattan).



Cover Artwork in Chemistry of Materials (CM)

Our work was featured and selected as the Front Cover in Chemistry of Materials (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00346)!!

 


Call for Paper for the Themed Collection in Nanoscale Advances

Dr. Jing was kindly invited to be a Guest Editor for the special issue of "Multicomponent Plasmonic Hybrid Nanoarchitectures with Precisely Tailored Properties for Emerging Applications" by Nanoscale Advances published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The deadline for the submission is September 1st, 2023. Welcome to showcase your research on novel plasmonic nanomaterials!


Undergraduate Research Presentation_Spring 2023

Undergraduate students oral presentations at Fairfax campus on May 8th. Quinn and Alison presented their fantastic experimental results on the projects of chiral plasmonic nanoparticles and plasmonic photothermal nanostructures. Well done!




2023 MRS Spring Meeting at San Francisco

Dr. Jing delivered an oral talk in 2023 MRS Spring conference at San Francisco, CA on April 13th in the symposium of Active Plasmonics I (EL05.06) hosted by Prof. Svetlana Neretina.


2023 ACS Spring Meeting at Indy

Dr. Jing and Mariia gave oral and poster presentations in 2023 ACS National Meeting at Indianapolis, respectively! Matthew (Dr. Greg Foster's group), Cooper (Dr. Greg Foster's group), EM and Aaron (both in Dr. Benoit Van Aken's group) also represented Mason by participating in poster sessions. Great get together! 



Fairfax County Regional Science & Engineering Fair 2023

Dr. Jing attended the Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair in person as a chemistry category judge hosted at James W. Robinson Secondary School on March 18th, 2023. Fantastic event!

   


Cover Artwork in Nanoscale Advances

Cover artwork selected as the inside Front Cover in the journal (Nanoscale Adv. 2023, 5, 88-95.)


2022 Winter Commencement Ceremony (Dec. 15th) at Eagle Bank Arena

Congrats to our first PhD--Dr. Andrew J. Evangelista! Also thanks Dr. Gerald Weatherspoon for his wonderful service at ceremony as a Faculty Marshal!

     

   


Undergraduate Research Presentation_Fall 2022

Undergraduate students (Nicolas Alt, Alison Carroll and Annie McAllister) oral presentations at Fairfax campus on Dec. 2nd.



Wrap-up General Chemistry Class in Fall 2022

Last lecture day of CHEM 212(Gen Chem II) at Sci&Tech Campus for cohort 9_EMDP2. Hooray!!


National NanoTechnology Day 2022

October 9th, 2022 is the national nanotechnology day. Let's celebrate for this special holiday as nanochemists and nanoscientists at GMU!!!

              Nano Ring 


Graduate Students Research Symposium_Fall 2022

Mariia participated in the poster session of graduate students research symposium at GMU. Well done!


Group Lunch_Summer 2022

We had a group lunch at 99 hot pot to celebrate Andrew's dissertation defense! Everyone enjoyed the hot pot so much!


Andrew Evangelista's Dissertation Defense

Andrew successfully passed his dissertation defense!!! Congratulations!!!



Cover Artwork in Nanoscale Advances

Cover artwork selected in the journal (Nanoscale Adv. 2022, 4, 2632-2636.)

  


2022 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) of ACS @ The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), NJ

Andrew participated in the poster session on June 1st and Dr. Jing gave an oral talk on dual plasmonic hybrid nanostructures on June 2nd at ACS MARM!!

   


Double Rainbow in the Sky at Mason_Summer 2022

    


First In-person Departmental Faculty Meeting since Pandemic_Spring 2022

Hooray to everyone! It is great when you can have faculty and staff get together for the meeting in-person in May 2022! This is the last meeting this Spring semester. Hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable summer!!!

   


Department of Chemistry_Graduate Student Poster Session_Spring 2022

Thank you for presenting and sharing the research work you all are doing at GMU!

   


Department of Chemistry Annual Students Awards Ceremony_Spring 2022

Our own Mariia won the "Graduate Student Teaching Award"! Keith was awarded the prestigious "ACS Senior Award"! And more exciting news is that Alison was the winner of "ACS Physical Chemistry Award"! They are all from Dr. Jing's group. Well done!!!

                     Graduate Student Teaching Award                                             ACS Senior Award                       ACS Physical Chemistry Award

     


Department of Chemistry_Graduate Student Poster Session_Spring 2021

Andrew and Mariia presented their impressive research results at the Graduate Student Poster Session at Dept. of Chemistry, GMU! Great job!

   


Cover Artwork in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Cover artwork selected in the journal (J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 5692-5703.)


Working together with EMDP2 (Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program) students 

November 11, 2019

         


2018 Spring semester wrap-up

May 03, 2018

The very 1st semester was just like roller-coaster and everyone enjoyed learning General Chemistry! You are awesome, section 004!

         

Shared Electron Microscopies

             Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)                     Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)         

 

           

Lab Setup

Dr. Jing moved to George Mason University to start a new career as an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry in Jan. 2018. This is the 1st day at Mason on Jan 10th, 2018.

                                                             


George Mason Campus

     


George Mason Neighbors-Washington D.C. (~20 miles from GMU)