Using Surface Chemistry to Explore Environmental, Catalytic, and Biomedical Applications of Porous Nanomaterials

News

August 2016

Shani finishes her work and leaves to begin a Postdoctoral Position at the University of South Carolina. Good Luck Shani!

Sean finishes his work and leaves to begin a Postdoctoral Position at the University of Illinois. Best Wishes Sean!

June 2016

Shani successfully defends her dissertation and completes the Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Egodawatte!

Shani's work with Savannah River National Lab on adsorption of U(VI) species onto magnetic mesoporous nanocomposites is published in Journal of Hazardous Materials. Congrats Shani!

May 2016

Sean successfully defends his thesis and completes his Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Lehman!

Steven completes his B.S. degree and walks at CLAS Commencement. Congrats Steven!

Shani is hooded at the Graduate College ceremony at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Congratulations Shani!

February 2016

Shani presents her Three Month Seminar in the Physical and Environmental Chemistry Seminar series. Good talk Shani!

Sean presents his Three Month Seminar in the Physical and Environmental Chemistry Seminar series. Nice talk Sean!

January 2016

The Larsen Group warmly welcomes graduate students Alaa Al-Minshid and Sanjaya Jayalath, who will be co-advised by Prof. Larsen.

December 2015

Sean's paper on protein adsorption on silica nanoparticles has been accepted for publication in Langmuir. Great job on getting this published Sean!

November 2015

Sean and Angie's paper on correlating ROS with cytotoxicity of porous and nonporous silicas is accepted for publication in Environmental Science: Nano. Congratulations Sean and Angie!

Angie and Sean's paper on toxicity of amine-modified silica in murine lungs has been accepted for publication in Toxicology Letters. Good work Angie and Sean!

September 2015

Dr. Larsen gives a talk on the group's research at Drake University in Des Moines, IA.

August 2015

Shakoora finishes her REU experience with us and returns to Georgia to continue her undergraduate studies. Good Luck Shakoora!

Dr. Larsen begins her new position as Associate Dean of Academic and Administrative Affairs in the UI Graduate College.

July 2015

Shani's paper on Cr(III) adsorption on iron oxide/silica nanocomposites is accepted for publication in Langmuir. Congratulations Shani!

June 2015

Shakoora Sabree joins as a summer REU student working with the Larsen and Salem groups. She will be working on drug delivery and cell viability studies with Angie.

May 2015

Alyssa completes her undergraduate studies and graduates from the University of Iowa. She will be pursuing an MBA at Loyola University in Chicago. We wish her luck in her future endeavors!

April 2015

Shani presents a poster at the UI Jakobsen Conference and wins a poster award. Great job Shani!

Dr. Larsen presents a talk at the NNI Symposium on understanding nano-bio interactions. 

March 2015

Sean and Dr. Larsen attend the National ACS Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

Sean wins an Outstanding Poster Award from the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division. Way to go Sean!

Paul's paper on one-pot synthesis of core/shell materials is published in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.

December 2014

First-Year Graduate Student Majid Nada joins our group to begin research. Welcome Majid!

November 2014

Sean and Yulia's paper on using NMR to characterize the ligands of functionalized nanoparticles is accepted to Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Congrats Sean and Yulia.

August 2014

Shani presents her research at the National ACS Meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Dr. Larsen presents Sean and Yulia's recent work at ACS as well.

Paul officially leaves the group to work for Pure Oleochemicals, a start-up company headed by Prof. Ned Bowden. Good Luck Paul!

June 2014

Paul Mueller successfully defends his thesis. Congrats Dr. Mueller!

May 2014

The Larsen group welcomes graduate students Angie Morris and CJ Ronhovde!

April 2014

Yulia successfully defends her thesis. Congrats Dr. Tataurova!

November 2012

The Larsen group welcomes Sean Lehman!

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Larsen who has been honored as an AAAS Fellow!

Ashish Datt defends his thesis and completes his Ph.D. Congratulations Dr. Datt!

October 2012

Website live

August 2012

Professor Sarah Larsen named ACS Fellow