Sunday, July 15, 2012

Group BBQ + Farewell to Aleksey and Andrix

Aleksey and Andrix, good job at PanAm and best wishes to your future endeavors!
At Edinburg Municipal Park, July 13, 2012.

An HS student supported by HHMI

Welcome, Kathryn, a student of Edinburg North High School, to participate into our research work, as part of the 2012 High School Summer Internship Program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at UTPA.  Thanks alos to Suresh for guiding her on research.

Two MUSE high school students

We are glad to have 2 HS students supported by the Migrant University Summer Experience (MUSE) spent some time in our research lab. Thanks to Qiang and Xing for guiding them on research.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Outreach at Jefferson Elementary School

On May 8th, Dr. Mao gave a 45-minute science demonstration to more than 40 fourth graders at the Jefferson Elementary School, Edinburg, TX.

Visit of Shandong University

On June 14th, Dr. Mao visited Shandong University and gave an invited seminar: http://www.ygb.sdu.edu.cn/html/xssk/sxjt/201206/15-7668.html.

Visit by Prof. Z. Guo

On May 28th, Professor John Zhanhu Guo, from the Integrated Composites Laboratory (ICL), Chemical Engineering Department, Lamar University, visited Prof. Mao, Multifunctional Applications of Oxides (MAO) lab, Dr. Lozano and Dr. Whelan at UTPA. Prof. Guo gave an invited talk on "Magnetic Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation”.

Farewell party for Michelle!


Held on April 27th by Michelle.

Congrats, Yesenia!

For being accepted as part of the NSF-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Program.

Visit of Lamar University

On May 14th, Dr. Mao gave an invited talk at Lamar University: http://dept.lamar.edu/zhanhu/icl/news.htm.

Congrats to our grats!

Congrats to Alekesy, Andrix and Michelle, for your successful admission to Rice Uni. (Graduate School), TAMU-Kingsville (Phamacy School) and UT Health Science Center (Medical School)! Well done!