The Dick Lab celebrates our winter group party with an annual Bakeoff and white elephant gift exchange! 

Congratulations to Alzahraa for completing her 2nd year Department Seminars!

Congratulations to Megan for completing her 2nd year Department Seminars!

Shoutout to Yashvi, Sirish, Sadie, Keeley, Daniel, Michael, and Lillian for presenting spectacular poster presentations for the Fall 2024 Undergraduate Research Expo!

Congratulations to Arif and Sakshi for completing their 2nd year Department Seminars!

Congratulations to Ashutosh for completing his 2nd year Department Seminars!

Congratulations to Patrick and James for completing their 2nd year Department Seminars!

Congratulations to Dr. Lynn E. Krushinski on successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Unlocking Microdroplet Curious Chemistry Through Single Entity Electrochemistry"!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO JEFFREY who won the 2024 National Fresenius Award!!! This award is given by the American Chemical Society to the top chemist under 35 year of age each year. 

Jeffrey presented "Bottling Up Electrochemiluminescence in Space and Time," at the International Society of Electrochemistry in Montreal, CA in honor of Professor Al Brad.

Vanshika Gupta gave an awesome research talk and poster at the International Society of Electrochemistry conference in Montreal, CA regarding "Planar Disk u-Aptasensors by Monolayer Assembly in a Dissolving Microdroplet"!

Congratulations to Dr. Thomas B. Clarke on successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Leveraging Multiphase Interfaces for Material Synthesis"!!!

Sadie Poirier presented a stellar poster presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on "Leakage in Commercially Available and Bipolar Reference Electrodes: A Triple Negative Breast Cancer Study"

Keeley Farmer gave an amazing poster presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on "The Investigation of MIPs Based PFAS Sensing Across Sample Matricies"

Yashvi Choudhary gave a stellar presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on "Analyzing the Impact of Matrix Complexities in Aptamer Sensor Calibration"

Amber Wang gave an awesome presentation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on her work with "Probing Levitating Droplets Using Dual Barrel Electrodes"

The US Army approved $600,000 in funding for "Deconvoluting Multistep Kinetics in Multivalent Batteries: A Case Study for Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries"!!

Congratulations to Thomas for Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry!

Congratulations to Dr. Philip Kauffmann on a successful PhD defense on "Multibarrel Electrodes for Multipurpose Electroanalysis"!!

Congratulations to Dr. Guillermo Colon Quintana on a successful PhD Defense on "Electrochemically Driven Phase Formation in Multiphase Systems"!!

Officially a PhD Candidate! Congratulations Crisitan Blanco-Combariza!!

Megan is awarded the University Nuclear Leadership Program Fellowship as a young leader in nuclear chemistry!

Brady is awarded the NSF GRFP and NDSEG Fellowships and has decided to accept the NDSEG!

Lynn is awarded the Guy Mellon Award in Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University.

Brady Layman recieves the NDSEG fellowship.

Dr. Dick receives the Early Career Investigator award from Analytical Chemistry and ACS Measurment Science Au.

Dr. Dick receives the 2023 Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award.

Congratulations to Brady and Dane for successfully completing their second year department seminars!

Congratulations Dr. Kathyrn J. Vannoy on her successful PhD Defense!

Dr. Dick crosses the century of papers with a JACS publication titled "Through-Space Electrochemiluminescence Reveals Bubble Forces at Remote Phase Boundaries".

The lab welcomes ten new first year students: Zoe, Azaria, John, Megan, Patrick, Sakshi, Sam, James, Mobina, and Arif!

Congratulating Dr. Rebecca Clark on her successful PhD Defense on "Electrochemical strategies for enabling the in-field detection and quantification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)"!

Jeffrey is awarded the Arthur Findeis Award for a Young Analytical Scientists through the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society! Congratulations!!

Congratulating Dr. Joshua Reyes-Morales on his successful PhD Defense on "The role of ion-transfer in nanodroplet-mediated electrodepositon", and for joining University of Puerto Rico as an assistant professor! 

Happy 4th of July! The Dick Lab celebrates the first 4th of July holiday in Indiana!

We celebrate publishing 23 papers in 2022!

Congratulating Dr. Nicole Walker on her successful PhD Defense!

Nikki gave an individual talk on Bipolar Reference Electrodes at Pittcon 2023!

Vanshika, Lynn, Nikki, Phil, Guillermo, Rebecca, Kate, Josh, and Thomas present posters at the SEAC Poster session at Pittcon 2023

Jeffrey is awarded the Pittsburg Conference Achievement Award at Pittcon 2023!

Silvia and Kate gave amazing talks at Pittcon 2023!

Jeffrey is awarded the SEAC - Charles N. Reilley & Royce W. Murray Award at Pittcon 2023 

Officially a PhD Candidate! Congratulations Lynn Krushinski

Lynn and Vanshika passed their 2nd year seminar with flying colors! Cristian, Lynn, and Vanshika are now one step closer to their PhD. 

Congratulations to Silvia and Thomas for their paper "Abiotic Microcompartments Form when Neighbouring Droplets Fuse: An Electrochemiluminescence Investigation" in Royal Society of Chemistry- Chemical Sciences.

Celebrating the wins from this year and planning for the adventures ahead! 

Welcoming new Dick Lab members Crisitan, Brady, Rishi, Den, Dane, and Myles! 

First day of classes at Purdue University.

Jeffrey is appointed as a Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor at Purdue University! Officially Broilermakers!