June 2024

• Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Adkins for defending his thesis. He will be staying at UIC as a Bridge to Faculty Scholar with the expectation of transitioning to a tenure-track faculty position.

• Let’s welcome Kaia Brathwaite as a Student Research Assistant to the Meda Research Lab.

May 2024

• Congratulations to Asa Green who graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry. He will be going to Chicago to work for his family’s business.

• Congratulations to Monet Irvin who graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and will attend be attending Illinois College of Optometry this fall.

• Let’s welcome Dr. Tariq Bashir as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist to the Meda Research Lab.

• Congratulations to our students on their acceptances to summer programs.

• Ke’La Kimble, a 2019 Xavier University of Louisiana Chemistry (ACS) major graduate, has been accepted to University of California, San Diego. During Ke’La’s four years at Xavier University of Louisiana, she was an NASA MIRO scholar where she performed research in the SHELiB Center. As Ke’La enters into University of California, San Diego in Fall 2019, she will pursue a PhD in Chemistry. Because of Ke’La outstanding academic record, she has been selected for the Sloan Scholars Award. The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. Fellowships were initially awarded in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

• Edelmy Marin Bernardez, a 2019 Xavier University of Louisiana Chemistry (ACS) major graduate, has accepted a Summer REU opportunity at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France.  Edelmy was a NASA MIRO Scholar and she performed research in the SHELiB Center.  In Fall 2019, Edelmy will work as a BUILD (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity) Technician and she will continue to perform research in the SHELiB Center.  In the near future, Edelmy will pursue her PH.D in Chemistry.

•  Congratulations to Jere' Williams (undergraduate) for the acceptance of her paper. Poly(propylene carbonate) Interpenetrating Cross-Linked Poly(ethylene glycol) Based Polymer Electrolyte for Solid-State Lithium Batteries. Electrochem. Soc. Transactions, 2018. Click Here

• Congratulations to Kobi Jones (undergraduate) for the acceptance of his paper. High Performance Tin-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Array Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries. MRS Advances, 2018. Click Here

May 2018

• Congratulations to Joshua Adkins (undergraduate) for the acceptance of his paper Facile Synthesis of Uniform Carbon Coated Li2S/rGO cathode for High-Performance Lithium Sulfur Batteries. MRS Advances, 2018, 428. DOI: 10.1557/adv.2018.428. Click Here

•  Congratulations to Kayla Strong (undergraduate) for the acceptance of her paper. Nanostructured V2O5/Nitrogen-doped Graphene Hybrids for High Rate Lithium Storage. MRS Advances, 2018. Click Here

•  Congratulations to Joshua Adkins on his acceptance to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Good luck in graduate school.