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(September 12, 2026) Carlos and Soumya enjoying the IUB Footbal game. #HooHoo HooHoosiers
(September 3, 2026) Dhari, Celeste, Carlos, and Bea (From Prof. Eric Bloch's lab) doing their thing during Karaoke night - hosted by the department chair, Prof. Charles Dann!
(August 25, 2026) Jatan and Kingsley representing the Beams Lab at the ACS 2027 Fall meeting, where they met old friends and mentors (Prof. Ted Goodson) of PI. Vázquez.
(August 3, 2026) We welcomed Dr. Soumya K. Dawn, our newest postdoc, to the BEAMS Lab!
(July 23, 2026) Jatan and Kingsley bragging about fixing the Transient Absortion alignment.
(July 23, 2026) Samuel presenting his summer work as a Hutton Honors College fellow.
(July 23, 2026) Jonathan presenting his summer work as part of IU's REU + CSENND efforts at IUB.
(July 23, 2026) Christopher presenting his summer work as part of IU's REU + CSENND efforts at IUB.
(July 20, 2026) Celebrating Samuel's 21st birthday by drinking some fermented grape juice.
(July 17, 2026) We Capture our symmer research grpoup in this nice picture, including Sandipan, Christopher, Jonathan, and Soumya (our newest postdoc in the group).
(June 3, 2026) We had our yearly summer kickoff + REU welcoming party! Happy to have Sandipan, Jonathan, and Christopher with us this summer.
(June 1, 2026) Congratulations to Batul Shakir, Dhari Shah, Kingsley Bortey, and Oscar Medrano for winning departmental fellowships for their research contributions.
(April 20, 2026) Congratulations to Crystal Tran (undergraduate researcher), who is on her way to the University of California-Santa Bárbara for graduate school in chemistry.
(April 20, 2026) Congratulations to Megan Gunter (undergraduate researcher) who is on her way to Buffalo State University for graduate school in Conservation of Art and Cultural Heritage and Conservation Science and Imaging.
(April 18, 2026) Professor Vázquez was the Keynote speaker at the American Chemical Society Junior Technical Meeting, ACS Puerto Rico Section.
(April 18, 2026) Dhari, Celeste, Chi-Tam, Bidisha, and Ruvinee participated in the 2026 Quantitative Chemical Biology (QCB) retreat, presenting a poster on their most recent scientific updates.
(January 5, 2026) We welcomed Dr. Jatan Sharma, our newest postdoc, to the BEAMS Lab!
(January 1, 2026) Professor Ricardo J. Vázquez was appointed to The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C Editorial AdvisoryBoard (EAB) until December 2028.
(December 15, 2025) We welcomed Declan Mackay and Samuel Baker to the BEAMS lab as part of this year's cohort of undergraduate students in the BEAMS lab!
(December 15, 2025) We welcomed Carlos G. Agosto to the BEAMS Lab as part of this year's cohort of graduate students in the BEAMS Lab!
(December 4, 2025) Oscar, Bidisha, and Batul representing the Beams Lab at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting.
(October 24, 2025) Congratulations to Batul Shakir, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed her candidacy exam on Bioelectrosynthesis of Single-Component Flavin-Dependent Halogenase.
(October 23, 2025) Congratulations to Dhari Shah, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed her candidacy exam on using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy an Microscopy for Interrogating Membrane Biophysics.
(October 22, 2025) Congratulations to Oscar Medrano, our newest Ph.D. candidate, who passed his candidacy exam on developing new Self-Doped Conjugated Polyelectrolytes.
(September 27, 2025) We participated in the 2025 Turkey Runa Analytical Chemistry Conference. Congratulations to Megan Gunter, one of our undergraduates, for winning second place in the poster symposium.
(September 12, 2025) We received the NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA-R35) from NIGMS for the full amount. #NIHFunded Press Release
(August 22, 2025) We received a grant from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). #CTSIFunded
(August 14, 2025) We received a grant as part of the IU-led Multi-institutional Nanoscience Center Advancing Single-Particle Research center of chemical innovation (CCI). #NSFFunded #CCI Press Release
(August 7, 2025) Professor Ricardo J. Vázquez Appointed to the 2025 JACS Au Early Career Advisory Board. Press Release
(July 29, 2025 ) Professor Ricardo J. Vázquez Presented at the GRC Photochemistry.
(July 29, 2025 ) Professor Ricardo J. Vázquez Presented at The International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS).
(June 15, 2025) Congratulations to Kingsley Bortey, our first Ph.D. candidate, who passed his candidacy exam on developing new charge-transfer materials with isoenergetic singlet-triplet manifolds.
(May 25, 2025) We welcomed Edward Hickey and Pamela Murillo to the BEAMS Lab as part of our REU experience.
(May 15, 2025) Congratulations to Crystal Tran (undergraduate researcher) who will join Seth Marder at University of Colorado, Boulder for an REU experience.
(April 15, 2025) Congratulations to Austin Tran (undergraduate researcher) who is on his way to UMich Ann Arbor for Graduate school.
(April 15, 2025) Congratulations to Conor Wallace (undergraduate researcher) who is on his way to Penn State for Graduate school.
(November 2, 2024) Professor Vázquez and Professor Jesús Velázquez (UC Davis) co-organized a symposium at SACNAS entitled "Energy Materials for a Sustainable Future".
(September 26, 2024) We participated in the 2024 Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference.
(August 20, 2024) We welcomed Connor Wallace and Megan Gunter to the BEAMS Lab as part of our second cohort of undergraduates.
(May 20, 2024) We welcomed Guillermo Narvaez-Lozano, Edward Hickey, and Yadielys Hernandez to the BEAMS Lab as part of our REU experience.
(December 22, 2023) We welcomed Austin Tran and Crystal Tran to the BEAMS Lab as part of our first cohort of undergraduates.
(December 20, 2023) We welcomed Oscar Medrano, Dhari Shah, and Batul Shakir, to the BEAMS Lab our group as part of the first cohort of graduate student! #TheFounders
(November 1, 2023) We welcomed Dr. Bisha Biswas, our first postdoc, to the BEAMS Lab!
