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Many congratulations to Emily as she successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on June 13th and was hooded on the 16th, becoming the first Ph.D. student to graduate from our group! She will work as a postdoc in our group for a few months before moving on to do bigger and better things.

Congratulations to Emily for winning the EERA JP ES Award for having the best poster presentation at the ICNaB 2022 conference!

More information about the award can be found here.

Emily recently received the prestigious Kramer Award for her oral presentation at MROP 2022 and Howie received the best poster prize at the Spring BASF California Research Alliance Review. Keeping the group proud, congrats!

Our undergraduate researcher Allyson gave a talk on how to land internships in the battery industry. She has previously interned at Tesla and Panasonic Energy. This summer, she'll be working at QuantumScape! Allyson hopes to continue helping her college peers get industry opportunities.

The NSF has selected Professor Raphaële Clément as one of this year's CAREER Award recipients. This is one of the most prestigious awards given to junior faculty nationwide for exemplifying the role of teacher-scholars through research and education. Congratulations to Prof. Clément!

The Current's feature on this achievement: https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2022/020522/sodium-solution

Congratulations to Emily for bagging the Silver Medal Student Presentation award at the 1st Energy & Informatics International Forum for her talk on sodium metal fluorides!

Read more about the forum or award here: https://www.infosyenergy.titech.ac.jp/Academy/intl_forum2021/award.html

Our very own Professor Clément gave an ECS webinar titled “From order to disorder: NMR insights into ionic conduction in battery materials" on October 27. A recording of this talk is available online at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3111169723844313101. Once you register, the video will start automatically. The replay is also available on the Physics World webinar page.

Euan Bassey, a PhD student from the Grey group in Cambridge, visited UCSB for a couple weeks to carry out operando EPR measurements on his cathode materials with Howie Nguyen.

This past week, our undergraduate researcher Wen Jin presented her poster at UCSB's undergraduate research symposium. She was mentored by our very own Emily Foley under MRL's FLAM, a summer research program. This fall, as Wen goes into her sophomore year as a chemical engineering major, she will continue to conduct research with the Clément group. Congratulations Wen!

This past summer, Allyson our undergraduate researcher interned at Gigafactory Nevada. She worked with Panasonic Energy of North America's materials engineering team as they produced cells for Tesla Model 3's. Congratulations on completing your internship, Allyson!