Welcome to Caroline Chun
Welcome to Caroline Chun, a first year grad student joining the group. She’ll start with experiments, but hopes to combine both in her projects.
Welcome to Caroline Chun, a first year grad student joining the group. She’ll start with experiments, but hopes to combine both in her projects.
Congratulations to Dakota for winning a 2017 Stafford Award for excellence in grad student teaching!
Congrats to Chris Petroff for a fast time at the NYC Marathon, finishing in 2:36:57, a new group record. Now on to your comp exam!
Chris awarded the Braskem America Predoctoral Fellowship for exemplary work in field of chemistry! Congrats!
Congratulations to Chris for winning a Safford Award for excellence in teaching. He has demonstrated outstanding teaching capability and a willingnes...
Congratulations to Paula for winning a Safford Award for excellence in teaching. She has demonstrated outstanding teaching capability and a willingne...
This month, Materials 360 featured a discussion on our recent publication in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. on the computational design of organic solar cells.
Congratulations to graduate student, Xinfeng Quan, who ran the Pittsburgh Marathon on May 12, 2013. He completed the race in 3 hours and 34 minutes, for an a...
Many congratulations to Dr. Andrey Sharapov! Andrey defended his dissertation “Fast Treatment Of Pi-Stacking Using Density Functional Theory” in physics on A...
Our recent paper is currently featured on the cover of Macromolecules.
For Ten Hundred Words of Science: Explaining Complex Science in Plain English.
Today, PPG held a session titled “Young Innovator’s Showcase” where Steve, Xinfeng, and Paula presented postsers on their recent work.
Congratulations to Adam for winning a Kaufman Predoctoral Fellowship for this school year for excellence in physical chemistry.
Congratulations to Ilana for winning a Safford Award for excellence in teaching. As the fourth member of the group to be recognized, she has demonstrated out...
Last week, Prof. Hutchison presented a postser on our molecular piezoelectric research, “Donor-Acceptor Molecule Piezoelectrics: Electromechanical Materials ...
Last week, Paula presented a postser titled “Investigation of Charge Transport Dynamics via Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy” at the Gordon Research Conference ...
Group members Steve Owens, Andrey Sharapov, Xinfeng Quan, and Xialing Chen have been accepted to give talks while attending the fall meeting of the American ...
The 6th Annual COPE-Solvay Symposium on Organic Electronics is in Pittsburgh, and the group is presenting 5 postsers, covering a range of our research, from ...
Earlier this semester, Prof. Hutchison gave talks at Williams College (his alma mater) and Bryn Mawr on work in the group. At Williams, he was named a Class ...
Congratulations to Xinfeng Quan for completing his first race, the Pittsburgh Half-Marathon in 1:41, at 7:41 minutes per mile pace! That was good enough to f...
Congratulations to Dr. Hutchison for being awarded a 2012 Cottrell Scholar Award by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) for his proposal ...
This Spring, Paula was awarded and Honorable Mention for her application to the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. This program reco...
This Spring, undergraduate researcher Terry Paske was awarded the American Institute of Chemists Award. Nominated and chosen by faculty members, the AIC seek...
This February, graduate students Christopher Marvin and Ilana Kanal joined the Hutchison group.
This fall, undergraduate students Valerie Lentz and Terry Paske have joined the group. Terry will work on the single-molecule piezoelectric project focusing ...
ChemViews magazine, published by 16 European chemical societies featured a blurb on Reverse Engineering Organic Solar Cells, published recently by the Hutchi...
Congratulations to Steve Owens, for winning one of the 2011 Safford Awards for Excellence as a Graduate Student Teacher! Steve is now the third member of the...
Yesterday, Prof. Hutchison was a guest on The American Entrepeneur radio show, hosted by Ron Morris. He was discussing the group’s recent research on finding...
Our recent paper is currently featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
The Hutchison group gave demos of solar cells and piezoelectric electric generation during the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s “Polar Weekend,” focusing...
The Hutchison Research Group has been awarded a Central Research Development Fund (CRDF) Seed Grant.
Graduate student Adam Gagorik gave a talk at PA-OH-WV Simulator’s Meeting about his work on simulations of charge transport in organic semiconductors.
Congratulations to undergraduate researchers Leah Seebald, Evan Richards, and Bryan Siegfried for graduating this spring!
Congrats to Dr. Tamika Madison, the group’s first Ph.D. recipient! Tamika defended her dissertation “Electron and Molecular Dynamics: Penning Ionization and ...
Congratulations to Paula Hoffmann for being offered the Mary E. Warga Predoctoral Fellowship. This award is given to incoming female graduate students who sh...
Congratulations to Adam Gagorik for winning a 2011-2012 Bayer MaterialsScience Fellowship!
This Spring, graduate students Paula Hoffmann and Steven Owens joined the group.
On November 14th-16th, Dr. Hutchison spoke at the fall Simulation Workshop at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF).
On October 20th, Dr. Hutchison gave a departmental seminar at the University of Buffalo.
Science 2010 was the tenth annual celebration of science and technology at the University of Pittsburgh.
This week, Dr. Hutchison gave a talk in the Department of Physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
This past week, the group presented two postsers at the Gordon Research Conference. The topic was Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions.
Undergraduate Bryan Siegfried has joined the group to work on phthalocyanine synthesis and characterization for the designer defects project.
Congratulations to Tamika Madison on winning a Safford Award for Excellence as a Graduate Student Teacher!
Congratulations to Casey Campbell, Arthur Davis, and Alexandra McSorley, on their undergraduate graduation from Pitt today. Casey will be attending chemistry...
Alexandra McSorley ’10, received a Mary Louise Theodore award from the University of Pittsburgh chemistry department. The award is given in memory of Mary Th...
Evan Richards ’11, will be joining the group to do synthetic research on soluble metal phthalocyanines for field effect transistors. He will be working with ...
Pitt’s new multi-disciplinary Center for Energy has awarded the group $40,000 in seed funding for computational screening of novel organic polymer solar cell...
Dr. Hutchison and Tamika Madison just returned from attending the spring American Chemical Society Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
At Science 2009 (Unplugged), Dr. Hutchison was asked to give a talk about the rational design of electronic materials from the ground up. During the talk, he...
Prof. Hutchison was invited to the first “Telluride School in Theoretical Chemistry” (TSTC) to talk about both theory and experiment in nanomaterials and mol...
Graduate student Tamika Madison will be joining the group this summer, to focus on computational simulation of “designer defect” field-effect transistors. Sh...
Dr. Hutchison just attended the Spring American Physical Society Meeting, during which, he was the chair of a focus session on nanomaterials for energy appli...
First-year graduate student Xinfeng Quan will be joining the group. He plans to study single-molecule piezoelectric materials and will be combining computati...
The American Chemical Society has awarded the Hutchison research group a grant through the Petroleum Research Fund.
Pitt undergrad Alexandra McSorley ’10 joins us for research starting in the Spring 2009 semester. Alexandra is interested in quantum chemistry and theoretica...
Today, Prof. Hutchison was invited to give a chemistry seminar at California University of Pennsylvania on “Conjugated Electronic Materials: From Organic Pol...
University of Pittsburgh undergraduate chemistry majors Casey Campbell ‘10 and Arthur Davis ’10 join us for research this Fall 2008 semester. Casey is intere...
Prof. Hutchison was invited to give a lecture at the ACS National Meeting in the Inorganic Division, entitled “Conjugated Materials: Phthalocyanines to Thiop...
Today, Prof. Hutchison was invited to give a seminar in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Pitt, entitled “Conjugated Molecular Mater...
Graduate students Aaron Crandall and Xialing Chen have joined the Hutchison Group. Aaron will be focusing on synthetic chemistry, and Xialing will be focusin...
Today, Prof. Hutchison was invited to give a chemistry seminar at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on “Conjugated Electronic Materials: From Organic Polyme...