Education Via Research

Our research group is inherently multidisciplinary and predominantly comprised of undergraduates with selected graduate students and staff. Performing research to educate ourselves and those around us, to learn via discovery and to apply what we learn to our academics and beyond has been a common theme.

Research is a demanding endeavor with many time-intensive obstacles. Our approach is to perform research in teams thereby distributing the tasks in order to overcome the challenges; we can then share in the rewards of our accomplishments and the dissemination of our research discoveries.

Interdisciplinary collaboration has progressed towards a more communal or collective research premise in which a core group of faculty and staff have come together to share ideas, students and resources. The key to this methodology is extensive communication and interaction from the faculty and thereby the students; it has led to inspiring interaction, growing successes and continuing perseverance.

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Recent News

New Knowlton Group Website Goes Live

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Ryan Thompson

The Knowlton Group has updated its web design! Our new layout is designed to be clearer, sleeker, and more useable. We hope you enjoy the new look and feel of our home on the web!

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Stephanie Barnes and Team Take 2nd Place at INBRE 2009

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Ryan Thompson

Stephanie Barnes, Christopher Buu, Jason Brotherton, Hieu Bui, Austin Johnson and Mallory Yates were given the 2nd Place Faculty Choice Undergraduate Poster Award at this year’s INBRE conference for their poster entitled “A Radial Dielectrophoretic Trap for Individual Nanostructures.” Congratulations team!

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Bernie Yurke Receives 2009 Tulip Award

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Ryan Thompson

Our own Bernie Yurke was awarded the 2009 Tulip Award at the 15th International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming held in June at the University of Arkansas.

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Jason Brotherton wins 2008 Veeco Calendar Contest

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Ryan Thompson

Jason Brotherton, an MSE Undergrad in the group, has had the honor of having his AFM image entitled “Wavy Nanostructure” included in Veeco’s 2008 AFM calendar. View the contest here and the winning image.

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