Cohen Lab

News Archive

Welcome undergrads! (12/10/07)

Lin Cong, a physics Junior, and David Gootenberg, a freshman, have started hanging out with us in the lab. Welcome Lin and David!

Prashant Jain joins as first postdoc (11/16/07)

Prashant is finishing his PhD with Mostafa El-Sayed at Georgia Tech. He will start in mid-February. Welcome Prashant!

Rotating rotation students (11/14/07)

Thanks to Stephen for all of his hard work during the rotation, and best of luck in the Park Group. Welcome to Sijia Lu! It's great to have you around.

Patent

A patent for putting nanoparticles on scanning probe tips finally issued. This patent was filed in 2002 based on work done in 2000 at the IBM Watson Research Center, with Chuck Black, Chris Murray, and Bob Sandstrom. Hooray!

Group Open House (10/15/07)

We had our Group Open House. Thanks to all who came and helped relieve us of excess beer. There were demos of Brownie-in-Motion, and the future of fashion.

Cleanroom training (10/10/07)

We all got trained in the McKay cleanrooms. The students looked good in their bunnysuits.

Katie O'Brien joins as new Admin. Asst. (9/24/07)

Katie comes to us from a background in publishing and will be taking over from Cheryl Ryder. Thanks to Cheryl for all her hard work and patience in the startup phase, and welcome Katie!

New rotation student (9/24/07)

Jennifer Hou from the physics dept. signed on for a rotation. Welcome Jennifer!

New rotation student (9/14/07)

Yiqiao Tang, a G1 in physics, started his rotation. Welcome Yiqiao!

Group size triples (9/6/07)

In what is likely a unique occurrence, the group size tripled in a single day: Alex and Stephen started their rotations.

Systems Biology PhD program (8/20/07)

We're now part of the Systems Biology Phd Program at Harvard Med School. We like systems, and we like biology--so it's a winning combination!

Technology Review TR35 (8/15/07)

Adam was awarded a TR35 prize by MIT's Technology Review Magazine for young innovators under the age of 35.

Dreyfus award (8/6/07)

Adam received the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Award for New Faculty. This award will support research into the local and nonlinear mechanical properties of DNA.

First equipment arrives (8/1/07)

We got two 4' x 8' x 1' Newport optical tables, an Olympus IX-71 microscope, and, of course, the most essential piece of lab equipment ever created.