News

• Takumi Uchiyama receives Santos-Go-Award (12/12/2020)
• UMass Amherst hosts the Nextflex workshop "CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN PRINT AND ROLL-TO-ROLL MANUFACTURING" (10/16/2018)
• The antimicrobial coating modeled after shark skin is featured in Forbes (07/24/2018)
• Watkins Receives a Grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative to Support Flexible Hybrid Electronics (10/06/2017)
• Feyza Dundar won the second prize at the BASF Materials Innovation Center (09/18/2017)
• Wenhao Li took 1st place at the ECS Battery Student Slam Symposium (09/11/2017)
• A communication "Rapid, Large-Area Synthesis of Hierarchical Nanoporous Silica Hybrid Films on Flexible Substrates" published in JACS (10/14/2016)
• Flexible Hybrid Electronics Initiative featured on Whitehouse blog! (07/06/2016)
• Jim Watkins ~ Flexible Hybrid Electronics (04/10/2016)
• A communication "Large Volume Self-Organization of Polymer/Nanoparticle Hybrids with Millimeter Scale Grain Sizes using Brush Block Copolymers" published in JACS (10/07/2015)
• UMass Amherst Will Lead Major Federal Initiative in New England to Boost Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing (08/28/2015)
• A communication "Controlled Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Large Nanoparticles in Amphiphilic Brush Block Copolymers" published in JACS (03/30/2015)
• Governor-elect Charlie Baker visits UMass (12/04/2014)
• Channel 25 Boston features Jim Watkins & Research on Biosensors (08/08/2014)
• Professor Jim Watkins elected 2012 APS Fellow (12/01/2012)
• Professor James Watkins Honored With Award (09/13/2007)

Seminars

• Professror Daeyeon Lee - University of Pennsylvania (10/19/2018)
• Professor Christopher Bowman - University of Colorado (09/14/2018)
• Professor Christopher Li - Drexel University (01/26/2018)
• Professor Werner Zapka - KTH Royal Institute of Technology (09/05/2014)

Dissertation defense

• Benjamin Yavitt (12/12/2018)
• Yiliang Zhou (10/15/2018)
• Aditi Naik (09/05/2018)
• Feyza Dundar (09/05/2018)
• Irene Howell (05/24/2018)
• Shengkai Li (04/25/2017)
• Yue Gai (04/06/2017)
• Nicholas Collela (12/10/2015)
• Rohit Kothari (10/21/2015)
• Cheng Li (09/10/2015)
• Xinyu Wang (06/26/2014)
• Eric Anderson (10/17/2013)
• Li Yao (10/03/2013)
• Michael Beaulieu (05/20/2013)

* Please refer to the PSE website (pse.umass.edu) for past seminars and defense schedules.