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After a long blogging hiatus, I’m trying to get started again. This summer, I finished up my postdoctoral research at Cornell University, got married, and started my new position in the chemistry department at University of Pittsburgh.

There’s always excitement to starting something new — this time I get to build my research group from the [...]

Yes, it’s official. Starting in September 2007, I will be an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.

The last few months have been extremely busy with travel and interviews. No, I didn’t fall off the map or decide to give up this website. In fact, the website is due for [...]

I’ve been so busy lately with so many things on my plate, that I’d be upset with myself if I was spending much time blogging. On the other hand, there’s a lot to mention, so I’ll emphasize some interesting links with quick blurbs.

There are a lot of new resources for science on the web, including [...]

In the grocery store checkout line, I ran into a collaborator. We discussed how our research was going, particular some work with nanoparticle transistors.

Afterwards, the older gentleman at the cashier asked me: Grocery Clerk: What’s a nanoparticle? Me:It’s a very small particle of a substance–maybe 5-10,000 would be the diameter of a piece of hair. [Ed note: [...]

Presentations can be nerve-wracking events. I’ve had presentations, where my remote control jinxed the projector, the projector decided to go black every few minutes, and of course the dreaded application of Murphy’s Law, where your laptop drive dies right before your presentation.

(No joke, the last has happened to me twice, including in January. It’s one [...]

I have a series of posts coming soon. Pardon the interruption, I recently switched hosting services — to get better reliability, bandwidth, and more disk space.

I’m planning some fun ideas for the added resources. More to come later.