Our student, Rui Xu has won the 2023-24 Brotzen Whitmire Graduate Fellowship for his “excellence in academics and research”. The fellowship will award Rui a $5000 stipend replacement for the academic year 2023-24. Congratualtions Rui and hope you keep the great work!
Congratulations to Hanyu for receiving a 5-year support through the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program! The project entitled “Probing Quantum Materials Modified by Terahertz Quantum Fluctuations” aims to use ultrafast spectroscopy to study the strong interaction between light and atomic motion in materials from ferroelectric insulators to two-dimensional magnets. The quantum uncertainty principle allows atoms to jitter even at very low temperatures and without any light shining on the materials, possibly modifying the average lattice structures and the ways of energy flow among the hybrid light-matter coupled states called the phonon-polaritons. The project also supports education on optical and quantum materials at Rice and outside campus. More information can be found in the news report here.
Nice job, Ali, for managing both academic excellence and family responsibility!
More information at Rice Engineering News
The EQUAL lab is now open at Rice MSNE! I feel very proud to start my new career in a brilliant, friendly and productive team. According to the old saying: All beginnings are difficult, this is going to be a challenging and rewarding period. Lucky enough, the lab is not completely empty. And plus, the warm weather is perfect for staying in shape.
Read the original departmental announcement.
