The Rowland Institute is excited to welcome two new Rowland Fellows, Dr. Viktoriia Morad and Dr. Sophia Shi. Viktoriia joins us from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where she completed her PhD in 2023. While at Rowland, Viktoriia’s lab will be focusing on novel colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals as programmable light-harvesting and charge-handling units. Sophia joins us from…
Rowland Fellow Shabnam Raayai is featured in a story published today in the Science & Tech section of the Harvard Gazette. The article focuses on her current work and that of the Raayai Lab. The Harvard Gazette article comes on the heels of their recently published article. The full Harvard Gazette article can be found…
Rowland Fellow Sacha Feldman has accepted a position as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry in the School of Basic Sciences (SB) at EPFL Valais Wallis. EPFL’s announcement of Sascha’s new position can be found here….
Fellow Sascha Feldmann is featured in a Harvard Gazette story highlighting his work at Rowland with spintronics. The full story on Sascha’s work at the Rowland Institute can be found here….
Lars Caspersen won a travel grant of $1000 to join the American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) which took place in Pheonix, AZ, November 21-23, 2021. There, he presented his work on the effect of artificial denticles mimicking shark scales on flows, titled “Artificial Denticle-Covered Textures in Taylor-Couette Flows”….
Lilliana Brandão of the Reece Laboratory presented her poster on “Untangling the Kinetics of Ethylene Epoxdation Through Pressure Transient Simulations” at the 9th World Conference on Oxidation Catalysis, September 4 – 8, 2022 in Cardiff, UK. She received the 2nd place poster prize….
Alumni, staff, and researchers attended a symposium to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Rowland Fellows program and the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Rowland Institute. We had a great turnout and the event was a triumph! It was amazing to hear about everyone’s current research and how their experiences at the Rowland have…
August 10, 2022 The Harvard Gazette featured the Rowland Fellows in an article entitled, “Using designs by Mother Nature, guiding flies, making things glow.” To read the full article, click here….
On March 15, 2022 Professor Andrew Murray, Director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard, gave a virtual presentation “Scientific Evolution: life, teaching, and research” to the Westminster School in London as a part of their Horizons program. This program attempts to give Westminster students a sense of the educational and research opportunities that are available…
January 3, 2022 Howard Berg, who was a Senior Fellow at the Rowland and a faculty member in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University passed away on December 30, 2021. Howard was appointed as a Senior Fellow by Dr. Edwin Land, the founder of the Rowland Institute, based on their shared interest in using…
