News Archives
August 2025: Congratulations to Yidnek, Iona, and Maya on their new paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
July 2025: Congratulations to Maya on her PhD defense!
June 2025: Congratulations to Kristine on her PhD defense!
Summer 2025: The Ferry Group was well-represented at IPRIME: Emily, Maya, Kristine, and Yidnek all gave presentations.
Summer 2025: Welcome to new REU student Alice Tidmarsh and PhD student Barath Tirumuruhan!
May 2025: Congratulations to Rohan and Teslim on their new paper in ACS Nano (collaboration with the Leighton and Stoerzinger groups), and to Rohan on his paper in ACS Applied Optical Materials (collaboration with the Leighton group)!
April 2025: Congratulations to Rohan on his PhD defense!
April 2025: Congratulations to Iona on her presentation at Spring MRS!
February 2025: Congratulations to Kristine on her new paper in Advanced Sustainable Systems!
January 2025: Congratulations to Maya on her presentation at Photonics West!
Fall 2024: Welcome to new PhD students Sri Aashrita Boddu and Sam Ewald!
Summer 2024: It's been a busy summer with outreach activities! Ferry group members ran activities for ASM Camp, Eureka!, and DiscoverSTEM.
Summer 2024: Vivian gave invited presentations at ECS, AES, META, and SPIE.
Summer 2024: We're excited to welcome new undergraduate researcher Hagmar Tinoco, and MRSEC REU students Jessica Li and Iona Welsch!
May 2024: Lots of activity at the IPRIME Annual Meeting! Rohan, Maya, Clare, Emily, Kristine, and Yidnek all presented!
April 2024: Congratulations to Clare on passing her qualifying exam!
April 2024: Rohan, Kristine, and Vivian presented at Spring MRS!
April 2024: Kristine presented at the IonE Sustainability Symposium, and won an award for her lightning talk! Read more about it here.
March 2024: Emily gave a presentation at APS!January 2024: Congratulations to Yidnek, Maya, and Rohan on their new publication in Advanced Optical Materials in collaboraton with the Frisbie and Francis groups!
January 2024: Welcome to new undergraduate student Mon Le!
December 2023: Vivian contributed to the Status Report on Emerging Photovoltaics, published in the Journal of Photonics for Energy. News: https://spie.org/news/status-report-on-emerging-photovoltaic-technology-published-by-spie-journal-of-photonics-for-energy#_=_
November 2023: Welcome to new graduate student Ayaka Moriyama!
October 2023: Congratulations to John for his new publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials, in collaboration with BlueDot Photonics!
September 2023: Welcome to new undergraduate researcher Aquarina Hoanca!July 2023: Congratulations to John for defending his PhD! Wishing him good luck in his new position.
June 2023: Welcome to our summer REU student, Anthony Mendoza!
June 2023: New paper published in Advanced Sustainable Systems, in collaboration with the Kortshagen group.
June 2023: Ferry group presents posters at IPRIME! Congratulations to Rohan for winning one of the best poster awards for the Optoelectronics and Metamaterials program!
April 2023: Ferry group presents at MRS! Kristine, John, Maya, and Rohan all gave talks, Adriana gave a poster, and Vivian gave an invited talk. Congratulations to John on winning best presentation in his symposium!
April 2023: Congratulations to Rohan for his accepted paper in Advanced Optical Materials, in collaboration with the Leighton and Mkhoyan groups!
April 2023: Chris presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
April 2023: Congratulations to Kristine on her newly accepted paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials!
April 2023: Congratulations to John and Bryan on their accepted paper in PRX Energy, with collaborators from First Solar!
March 2023: Welcome to new postdoc Teslim Fasasi!
March 2023: Congratulations to Clare for winning an NSF GRFP award!
February 2023: Maya and Kristine are highlighted as CEMS outreach stories!
January 2023: Congratulations to Maya, Pavlos, and Bryan on their new publication in ACS Applied Optical Materials!
December 2022: Welcome to new PhD student Clare Froehlich! She is co-advised by Christy Haynes.
September 2022: Welcome to our new postdoc, Emily McGuinness! She will be working in the MRSEC, and co-advised by Chris Ellison.
July 2022: Congratulations to Bryan on his successful PhD defense, and wishing him good luck in his new position at 3M!
July 2022: Rohan and Maya gave posters at the Nanophotonics and Plasmonics GRC, Maya spoke at the associated GRS, Rohan served as a moderator at the GRS, and Vivian gave an invited talk at the GRC!
June 2022: Vivian gave an invited talk at the Noble Metal Nanoparticles GRC!
June 2022: Congratulations to Bryan for his new paper out in Advanced Optical Materials in collaboration with the Ellison group!
June/July 2022: Welcome to our new summer researchers! Adriana Chapa is joining us through the MRSEC REU, Mike Hamann returns through the MRSEC RET, and Anca Moisei through the MNC RET!
May 2022: Many Ferry group presentations at IPRIME! Bryan, Rohan, Yidnek, Maya, and Kristine all presented posters.
May 2022: John gave a presentation at MRS.
May 2022: Congratulations to Diana on successfully defending her honors thesis! Wishing her good luck in her new position!
May 2022: Congratulations to Kristine on passing her qualifying exam!
May 2022: Congratulations to Maya for winning one of the CEMS Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action and Service (IDEAS) awards!
April 2022: Vivian gave a seminar at Lehigh. Thanks to Nick Strandwitz for the invitation!
February 2022: Welcome to two new group members! Yidenekachew Donie is a new postdoc, co-advised by Lorraine Francis and Dan Frisbie, and Chris Stallard is a new undergraduate researcher!
December 2021: Vivian gave an invited talk at Pacifichem. Thanks to the organizers for the invitation!
November 2021: Vivian gave a seminar at Yale University in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Thank you to Peijun Guo for the invitation!
November 2021: New paper published in ACS Applied Energy Materials! Congratulations, John!
November 2021: Welcome to new group member Juil Chung!
November 2021: Rohan is part of a new collaboration paper published as part of the MRSEC in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!
October 2021: Congratulations to Kristine and Rohan on their Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards!
October 2021: Vivian gave an invited talk at AVS!
October 2021: Vivian gave an invited talk at the 3rd European Workshop on Optics for Solar Energy!
September 2021: Vivian gave a seminar in Applied Physical Sciences at UNC!
September 2021: Ferry group presented at the MN AVS meeting: Bryan, John, Maya, and Rohan all gave talks, and Maya and Bryan won 1st and 2nd place for their presentations! Congratulations to all!
September 2021: Congratulations to Kristine for winning the Outstanding Collegiate Member Award from the Society of Women Engineers! Read more about her award here.
August 2021: Vivian gave a Tech Forum seminar at 3M.
August 2021: Bryan and Rohan presented at IPRIME!
August 2021: Congratulations to our RET members Liz and Mike on their poster presentation!
June 2021: Bryan won the award for best poster in Area 1 at PVSC, John gave a talk, and Vivian served as sub-area chair for Advanced Light Management and Spectral Shaping. New proceedings papers coming soon!
June 2021: Vivian gave a keynote talk at the 95th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. Thank you to Qian Chen and Muzhou Wang for the invitation!
June 2021: Vivian gave an invited talk in Green Photonics at Photonics North, and served as one of the co-organizers for the symposium.
June 2021: Congratulations to Bryan on his new paper in collaboration with NREL!
May 2021: Congratulations to Rohan and Maya on passing their qualifying exams!
May 2021: Congratulations to Ian on his new paper in collaboration with NREL, out now in Cell Reports Physical Science!
April 2021: Congratulations to Bryan on being named a Caretta Outstanding Unit Operations Teaching Assistant!
March 2021: Congratulations to Kristine for receiving an NSF graduate research fellowship, and to Rohan for receiving an honorable mention!
March 2021: Vivian gave a seminar in the Physics department at UW-LaCrosse. Thank you to Seth King for the invitation!
February 2021: Vivian gave an invited seminar to the OSA Columbia Chapter
January 2021: Congratulations to Eleanor on her successful thesis defense!
January 2021: Vivian gave a seminar in Materials Science at Northwestern. Thank you to the Materials Science Student Association for the invitation!
November 2020: Vivian was a panelist at the virtual Academic Workshop. Thank you to Andrea Armani for organizing!
October 2020: Vivian gave an invited talk at the AVS virtual showcase!
September 2020: Congratulations to Matt on successfully defending his thesis!
June 2020: Ian gave a presentation at the virtual IEEE PVSC meeting.
June 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Slauch and Dr. Pavlos Pachidis on their successful PhD defenses! Wishing them both good luck in their new positions!
May 2020: Congratulations to John for passing his qualifying exam!
November 2020: Vivian was a panelist at the virtual Academic Workshop. Thank you to Andrea Armani for organizing!
October 2020: Vivian gave an invited talk at the AVS virtual showcase!
November 2019: Welcome to new students Maya Ramamurthy and Rohan Chakraborty!
November 2019: Vivian has been awarded the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award. Read more about it here.
October 2019: Vivian gave a seminar in physics at Macalester College.
October 2019: Vivian gave an invited talk at SciX.
September 2019: Congratulations to Ryan and John on their new paper in APL Materials, in collaboration with the Hillmyer group! Read the Scilight here.
September 2019: Matt gave a poster at the MN chapter meeting of AVS, and Vivian gave an invited talk.
September 2019: Vivian gave a seminar in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Thank you to Susan Fullerton for the invitation!
August 2019: Vivian gave two invited talks at the ACS meeting in San Diego. Thank you to AAAS and ACS Central Science for organizing the Marion Milligan Mason Award Symposium, and to CaSTL for the invitation!
August 2019: Congratulations to Pavlos and Bryan on their newly accepted paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials!
August 2019: Jackson, Jessica, and Renuka all presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
July 2019: Good luck to Ryan and Dana in their new positions!
June 2020: Ian gave a presentation at the virtual IEEE PVSC meeting.
June 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Slauch and Dr. Pavlos Pachidis on their successful PhD defenses! Wishing them both good luck in their new positions!
May 2020: Congratulations to John for passing his qualifying exam!
November 2019: Welcome to new students Maya Ramamurthy and Rohan Chakraborty!
November 2019: Vivian has been awarded the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award. Read more about it here.
October 2019: Vivian gave a seminar in physics at Macalester College.
October 2019: Vivian gave an invited talk at SciX.
September 2019: Congratulations to Ryan and John on their new paper in APL Materials, in collaboration with the Hillmyer group! Read the Scilight here.
September 2019: Matt gave a poster at the MN chapter meeting of AVS, and Vivian gave an invited talk.
September 2019: Vivian gave a seminar in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Thank you to Susan Fullerton for the invitation!
August 2019: Vivian gave two invited talks at the ACS meeting in San Diego. Thank you to AAAS and ACS Central Science for organizing the Marion Milligan Mason Award Symposium, and to CaSTL for the invitation!
August 2019: Congratulations to Pavlos and Bryan on their newly accepted paper in ACS Applied Nano Materials!
August 2019: Jackson, Jessica, and Renuka all presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
July 2019: Good luck to Ryan and Dana in their new positions!
June 2019: Welcome to new undergraduate group members Jackson Muehlbauer and Renuka Bhatt!
June 2019: Ian gave a talk at the IEEE PVSC conference in Chicago.
May 2019: Ryan, Dana, Matt, Pavlos, Ian, and Bryan all presented at the 2019 IPRIME meeting.
May 2019: Congratulations to Ryan Connell and Dana Dement on their successful PhD defenses!
May 2019: Congratulations to Ian on being awarded a 2019 - 2020 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship! More information here
April 2019: Congratulations to Ian on his new publication in ACS Applied Energy Materials!
April 2019: Congratulations to Bryan for passing his Preliminary Oral Exam!
April 2019: Congratulations to Dana and Matt on their new publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
April 2019: Vivian gave a seminar in Physics at Montana State University. Thank you to Nick Borys for hosting!
March 2019: Vivian gave a seminar at Georgia Tech in Materials Science and Engineering. Thanks to Mike Filler for hosting!
March 2019: Vivian gave an invited talk at APS on photonic structures for solar energy conversion, as part of the Ovshinsky Fellowship in Sustainable Energy.
March 2019: New collaborative paper is published in Nature Communications with the Holmes group.
December 2018: New collaborative paper out in ACS Photonics with the Kortshagen and Hillmyer groups on luminescent solar concentrators.
November 2018: Welcome to new graduate students John Keil and Eleanor Mayes!
October 2018: Congratulations to Sihoon Moon for winning 2nd place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences division of the AIChE undergraduate poster competition!
October 2018: Vivian gave seminars in Applied Physics at Caltech and at Northrop Grumman.
October 2018:
Vivian is one of the recipients of the Marion Milligan Mason Award for 2019 (link), and is also the recipient of the APS Ovshinsky Fellowship in Sustainable Energy (link)
October 2018:
Vivian gave a seminar at Gustavus Adolphus in the Department of Chemistry. Thanks to Ian Hill for the invitation!
October 2018:
Vivian gave a seminar at USC in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Petroleum Engineering. Thanks to Malancha Gupta for the invitation!
August 2018:
Congratulations to Christian on successfully defending his masters thesis!
August 2018:
Congratulations to Dana and Mayank on their just accepted paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
August 2018:
Congratulations to Ian on two new papers in collaboration with NREL: one PVSC proceedings paper, and one SPIE proceedings paper!
August 2018:
Vivian gave an invited talk at SPIE Optics and Photonics in San Diego.
July 2018:
Vivian gave a seminar at 3M.
July 2018:
Summer travel updates! Dana gave a poster at QD2018, Pavlos gave a poster at the Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Gordon Research Conference, and Vivian gave an invited talk at the Advanced Photonics Congress in Zurich, and was a discussion leader at the Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals Gordon Research Conference.
June 2018:
Congratulations to Ryan on being named a Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for 2018 - 2019! Read more about it here.
June 2018:
Congratulations to Pavlos on his new publication in Optics Express!
June 2018:
Ian presented a poster at the World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion.
June 2018:
Vivian served as a discussion leader at the Solar Energy Conversion Gordon Research Conference in Hong Kong. Thanks to Jia Zhu for the invitation.
June 2018:
Welcome to Willa Mihalyi-Koch, who is joining our group for the summer as a MRSEC REU student!
May 2018:
Ryan and Dana both presented at the IPRIME annual meeting!
May 2018:
Vivian gave an invited talk at the Electrochemical Society meeting in Seattle, WA. Thanks to Peter Mascher, Federico Rosei, and David Lockwood for the invitation.
April 2018:
Congratulations to Ian on his new paper in ACS Photonics in collaboration with Mike Deceglie and Tim Silverman from NREL!
April 2018:
Congratulations to Mayank on his new position at 3M!
April 2018:
Congratulations to Ryan on his award for best talk in the "Transitioning Quantum Dots from Benchtop to Industry” symposium at Spring MRS!
April 2018:
Dana, Ryan and Pavlos presented at the MRS meeting in Phoenix!
March 2018:
Mayank presented at the ACS meeting in New Orleans!
January 2018:
New paper out in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics in collaboration with NREL!
January 2018:
New paper out in collaboration with Zasadzinski group!
December 2017:
Congratulations to Ryan Connell and Samantha Hill (Kortshagen group) on winning the grand prize in the DOW Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge for their work on Si-based luminescent solar concentrators! See more about the award here.
November 2017:
Congratulations to Mayank Puri on his paper in ACS Nano!
November 2017:
VF presents invited talk at Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium in Potsdam, Germany.
November 2017:
Welcome to new graduate students Bryan Cote and Chen Fan!
November 2017:
Mayank, Ryan, Dana, Matt, Pavlos, and Sihoon all presented at the AIChE meeting in Minneapolis!
October 2017:
VF presents invited talk at SciX in Reno.
August 2017:
Congratulations to John on his successful master’s thesis defense!
July 2017:
Vivian gave an invited talk at the META conference in Incheon.
May 2017:
Congratulations to Ian on his acceptance to the NREL Solar Graduate Student Research Internship this summer!
May 2017:
Congratulations to Dana on her Outstanding TA Award for Spring 2017!
May 2017:
Congratulations to Ian Slauch on passing his qualifying exam!
April 2017:
Congratulations to Pavlos on passing his qualifying exam!
April 2017:
Vivian and Mayank attend Spring MRS in Phoenix. Mayank presented a poster, and Vivian gave an invited talk.
February 2017:
Vivian Ferry named a McKnight Land-Grant Assistant Professor.
January 2017:
Welcome to new undergraduate students Will Broomhead and Sydney Jones!
November 2016:
Welcome to new graduate student Christian Pinnell!
November 2016
VF was a guest on the Nanovations podcast, hosted by Prof. Michael Filler.
November 2016:
VF delivers an invited talk at Fall MRS.
October 2016:
VF named to Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators under 35.
September 2016:
VF presents invited talk at SciX in Minneapolis.
July 2016: Welcome to new group members Sihoon Moon and Dr. Mayank Puri!
June 2016: Ferry group receives support from ACS PRF!
May 2016: Congratulations to Ryan on his accepted paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C!
May 2016: VF presents an invited talk at the Electrochemical Society meeting.
February 2016: VF presents an invited talk at Photonics West.
January 2016: VF receives NSF CAREER Award! The press release is available here
January 2016: VF receives an AFOSR YIP award! Information here.
January 2016: VF gave a seminar for CaSTL at UC Irvine.
December 2015: Welcome to new group members John Caputo, Pavlos Pachidis, and Ian Slauch!
December 2015: VF co-organized a symposium at Fall MRS on Nanostructured Photovoltaics.
November 2015: Ferry group participated in an outreach event at the CSE Math and Science Family Fun Fair!
November 2015: VF presents an invited talk at the OSA Light, Energy, and Environment Congress in Suzhou, China.
October 2015: VF presents an invited talk at AVS in San Jose.
August 2015: VF presents an invited talk at META 15.
July 2015: VF presents invited talks at ICMAT 15 and PIERS.
June 2015: VF presents an invited talk at Photonics North meeting in Ottawa.
June 2015: Congratulations to Ryan Connell on passing his qualifying exam!
May 2015: VF presents an invited talk at the Next Generation Solar meeting in Toronto.
May 2015: Congratulations to Dana Dement on passing her qualifying exam!
April 2015: VF presented a seminar at the University of Oregon Department of Chemistry. Thanks to Jim Prell for the invitation!
April 2015: VF co-organized a symposium on Plasmonics and Metamaterials at the Spring 2015 MRS meeting.
February 2015: VF presented an invited talk at IEEE Photonics West
January 2015: VF presented an invited talk at EMN Photovoltaics.
November 2014: Welcome to new graduate student Matthew Quan!
November 2014: VF co-organized an OSA incubator meeting on the Fundamental Limits of Optical Energy Conversion.
October 2014: Karsten joins the group!
July 2014: Vivian arrives in Minnesota!
June 2014: Shahrzod joins the group!
April 2014: Dana and Ryan visit Berkeley for a week of nanoparticle synthesis and experiments!
November 2013: Ryan and Dana join the group!