On January 13 Katherine Lindberg Niessen presented an outstanding defense of her PhD thesis and today January 20 she if filing her thesis.  Congratulations to Katie!

press release online: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2016/12/020.html

Gender, ethnicity and teaching evaluations: Evidence from mixed teaching teams

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775716301030

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i33/Terahertz-radiation-probes-polymers.htmlFrom Chemical & Engineering News http://www.cen-online.org A service of the American Chemical Society.

Prof. Markelz was a participant in a recent survey run by Babson College on use of online resources by faculty.

Results were recently published:Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2015-16 from the BSRG web site: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html 

Some of the key findings:

CONGRATULATIONS TO MENGYANG AND YANTING!!!  They were selected for the Protein Science Young Investigator Travel Award for their abstracts to be presented at the 

THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE PROTEIN SOCIETY

Baltimore, Maryland USA | July 16-19, 2016 | Hyatt Regency Baltimore

Modulated orientation-sensitive terahertz spectroscopy

Rohit Singh, Deepu Koshy George, Chejin Bae, K. A. Niessen, and A. G. Markelz

Photonics Research Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. A1-A8 (2016) doi: 10.1364/PRJ.4.0000A1

https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/fulltext.cfm?uri=prj-4-3-A1&id=340630

It is important to be aware that your eyeglasses may give you achromatic effects!!!  When looking at the scattered light from amplified NIR laser off a business card, you will see both the fundamental (red) and the fluorescence from two photon absorption (blue).  If you wear corrective lenses, the two spots will not be superimposed, but actually appear to be spatially displaced.  The displacement will switch based on your position relative to the beam.