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College of Science
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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! Link
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)
