Oct 6, 2024 — Jacob Sivak and Mary Kate Caucci present talks at the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T24) conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 1, 2024 — The group welcomes Dr. Ajinkya Hire as a postdoctoral associate co-advised with Dr. Reinhart
July 21, 2024 — The Sinnott group heads to the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Materials Science & Engineering in Newry, ME to present four posters and lead a discussion session
May 31, 2024 — Lauren Shepard passes her oral comprehensive exam
May 24, 2024 — Congratulations Dr. Stephen Holoviak on passing his thesis defense
May 17, 2024 — Congratulations Dr. Jiayang Wang on a successful thesis defense
Apr 29, 2024 — Mary Kate Caucci receives a Chemistry Graduate Student Service Award
Feb 1, 2024 — Sinnott group alumni, Yanfu Lu, returns to discuss his experience in industry at ASM inc. and give advice to current group members.
Oct 1, 2023 — The Sinnott group attends the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T23) conference in Columbus, OH to give six talks and a poster
Aug 10, 2023 — Lauren Shepard passes her qualifying exam.
Aug 4, 2023 — Lingxiao Mu passes his oral comprehensive exam.
Aug 2, 2023 — Congratulations to Dr. Yuxiang ‘Frank’ Wang on passing his Ph.D. thesis defense.
Jun 26, 2023 — Welcome REU student Clara Jackson.
Jun 22, 2023 — Jacob Sivak receives Outstanding Poster Award at the International Conference on High-Entropy Materials in Knoxville, TN.
Jun 18, 2023 — Jacob Sivak and Mary Kate Caucci attend the International Conference on High-Entropy Materials in Knoxville, TN.
Apr 14, 2023 — Mary Kate Caucci receives a Chemistry Graduate Student Leadership Award
Apr 1, 2023 — Mary Kate Caucci becomes president of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association.
Mar 28, 2023 — Chang Han accepts Ph.D. position in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State.
Mar 19, 2023 — Lingxiao Mu and Dr. Sinnott head to San Diego for the TMS Conference.
Dec 7, 2022 — Well done Lingxiao Mu on passing his qualifying exam.
Dec 1, 2022 — Fantastic work Jacob Sivak on passing his oral comprehensive exam.
Nov 17, 2022 — Congratulations to Mary Kate Caucci on passing her oral comprehensive exam.
Aug 24, 2022 — Congratulations to Dr. Sinnott on receiving the Medard W. Welch Award from the American Vacuum Society for outstanding contributions to the development and utilization of computational methods to advance atomic-scale insights into the mechanisms associated with surface chemistry, thin-film growth, and materials discovery.
Aug 22, 2022 — Welcome Lauren Shepard as a Ph.D. student.
Aug 17, 2022 — Congratulations to Jiayang Wang on passing his qualifying exam.
July 24, 2022 — Mary Kate Caucci and Jacob Sivak attend the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry in Palisades Tahoe, California.
June 13, 2022 — This week Jacob Sivak and Mary Kate Caucci are off to Austin, TX for the School on Electron-Phonon Physics from First-Principles.
May 31, 2022 — Dr. Sinnott is awarded the Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences.
May 18, 2022 — Both Mary Kate Caucci and Jacob Sivak have been awarded a $1,100 travel grant from the Dalalian Scholarship Fund to present research at the American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry.
May 16, 2022 — Wishing future Ph.D. student, Lauren Shepard, luck as she spends the summer working at Sandia National Labs.
April 1, 2022 — Great job to Jacob Sivak and Mary Kate Caucci on their excellent second year seminars.
Feb 20, 2022 — Congratulations Mary Kate Caucci on being appointed to the exec board of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association as the Professional Development Chair.
Jan 6, 2022 — Great job to Robert Slapikas on passing his comprehensive exam
Nov 8, 2021 — Well done to both Jacob Sivak and Mary Kate Caucci on passing their qualifying exam.
Nov 1, 2021 — Cheers to Stephen Holoviak on passing his comprehensive exam.
Nov 1, 2021 — Congratulations to Mary Kate Caucci and Jacob Sivak on being recipients of the Chemistry Graduate Student Teaching Awards.
August 1, 2021 — Welcome Lingxiao Mu as a Ph.D. Student.
June 1, 2021 — Welcome REU Student Lauren Shepard.
May 28, 2021 — Congratulations to James Goff for passing his Ph.D. thesis defense.
