Congratulations to Dr. Joel Bombile, who successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Tight Binding Model of Charge Localization and Excitons in Semiconducting Polymers”, on Nov 13.  Many thanks to his thesis committee — Profs. John Asbury (Chemistry), Ismaila Dabo (MatSE), and Enrique Gomez (ChemE) for their many helpful comments and suggestions along the way.