Graduate student Jake finished his oral exam in physics with flying colors. Congratulations Jake!
June 2023
A new postdoc Dr. Theodore Sauyet joined the group. He graduated from Stony Brooks University in 2023. He is not new to the group as he had done his honor’s thesis with Dr. Jain 
during his undergraduate studies at UConn.
April 2023: Dr. Leonardo Civale visited the group
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.
