It was our pleasure to have Dr. Leonardo Civale who recently retired from Los Alamos National Lab, to our group. He delivered a great CMP seminar on superconductors. 
Dr. Menka Jain promoted to Full Professor
Dr. Jain has been promoted to Full Professor!
In photo: from left- Dean of CLAS Dr. Juli Wade, Dr. Jain, Dr. B. Wells (Head of Physics dept).
Jacob (Jake) presented 2 posters at the MRS Spring 2023 meeting
For one of his posters, Jake received Best poster award nomination! Congrats Jake!
30th March: Dr. Jain attended the WiMSE banquet
Today, it was so good to attend the Annual WiMSE banquet organized by Jake Pfund presented at APS March meeting
Grad student Jacob Pfund presented one talk and one poster at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas (4-10 March 2023).
Dr. Jain will present an invited talk in ISAF 2023
https://2023.ieee-isaf.org/speakers
Dr. Jain has been invited to give a talk in the ISAF 2023 meeting in July 2023.
Feb 2023: Dr. Jain hosted female undergraduates in STEM fields
On 22nd Feb, Dr. Jain hosted two groups of UConn undergraduate students in STEM fields in her lab.
Feb 2023: Dr. Jain gave a seminar at the Smith College
Dr. Jain visited Smith College, MA to recruit female undergraduate students for summer research work funded by a DEI grant from CLAS with Prof. Lea Santos and Prof. Ilya Sochnikov.
Feb 2023: Two undergraduate students joined the group
Two physics undergraduate students, Michael Frank and Nicholas Thiel-Hudson, joined the group. Welcome Michael and Nick!
January 2023: Zachary Ritchey joined the group
Physics graduate student Zachary Ritchey joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome Zach!