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Alden, Emma, Tyler, Erick, and Julia had a blast with the Family Ultimate Science Exploration (FUSE) program this week when they went to Carpenteria Middle School to host workshops for the students and their families. The theme was Waves so they taught participants about the various forms and properties of waves using slinkies and spectrometers and even guided them in making simple homemade speakers!

Maggie and Cody enjoyed the chance to present their work at this year's Experimental NMR Conference in Asilomar.

Hanna, Erick, and Alden took a trip to Didcot, UK, to perform synchrotron XRD at the I-11 beamline of Diamond Light Source. They acquired valuable data for our group and for our colleagues in other UCSB groups, and also got a tour of the Bruce Lab from our former colleague Amelia, now at Oxford!

Our group had a fun time at the bowling alley again as an end of the year celebration and farewell party for Elizabeth. We will miss her dearly and wish her all the best in her next chapter!

The group had a great time at the “Finding Internships in Materials Science” panel for UCSB undergrads, which Alden planned and moderated, and at which Anaya served as a panelist. We shared resources and opportunities for internships in academia and industry.

At the annual Materials Student Association Halloween coffee hour and costume contest, many of our group members donned pink as Battery Scientist Barbies!

Alden and Erick represented the Clément group this year at the Materials Department's Tony Evans 5K race.

Say hello to the newest graduate students in our group! Alden will be using ¹⁷O NMR to study redox processes in manganese oxide materials and Julia will combine NMR and magnetometry to correlate electronic structure with redox behavior in various cathode materials. We're very excited to welcome them to Santa Barbara and to see what they can discover during their research here!

This Tuesday, our group headed to the Pauley Track with members of the Seshadri group for our second joint field day. While the competition was fierce throughout games of volleyball, three-legged races, and more, the final results came out to a tie. We all enjoyed the opportunity to spend time with our colleagues outside of the battery labs and will definitely have to do this again next year!

Ash, Cody, and Emma gave talks and presented posters at this year's Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Conference. Congrats to Cody on winning a poster award and thanks to UC Irvine for hosting this fun and exciting conference!