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October 26, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Group dinner and ice cream

…..to celebrate making it halfway through Fall 2022. Excited to have two thesis students, Autumn and Shoshanna, who delivered excellent thesis talks last month to the department!

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Shoshanna and Autumn presented at ACS!

Shoshanna and Autumn did an excellent job presenting their posters at the Fall 2022 American Chemical Society conference in Chicago last month. Looking forward to seeing what they cook up Read More …

August 5, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

We are NSF funded!

The lab has received funding from the National Science Foundation for a grant entitled “RUI: Using Colloidal Nanoparticles to Host Photogenerated Spin Qubit Pairs” working with co-PI Jonathan Friedman in Read More …

July 22, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Lab activity: Escape the escape room!

It was too hot for a hike, so we did a DaVinci themed escape room instead, successfully escaping with 7 minutes to spare! We also learned the value of teamwork!

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

A brilliant idea: a lab logo

Thanks to Sunnie for spearheading the effort. The Olshansky lab now has an official logo. Every piece of this logo has multiple meanings…see if you can guess them! Coming soon: Read More …

June 23, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Welcome to the second week of summer research

Summer research is well underway with an exciting cast of characters including rising sophomores, Amisha, Maggie, and Sunnie, as well as rising senior thesis student Shoshanna!

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Congraduations to Troy and Max

Today is a bittersweet day. Graduating seniors, and Olshansky Lab thesis students, Troy and Max just finished their last day of classes. Wishing them the best of luck as they Read More …

April 22, 2022 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Celebrating two successful thesis defenses

Troy and Max successfully defended their senior theses this week! The group went out to dinner to celebrate.

November 4, 2021 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Just another evening group meeting

The group has been meeting every Wednesday night this semester to hear two students give great presentations on their research or a paper. Highlight of the week!

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 jolshansky@amherst.edu

Max is highlighted in the Amherst Student Newspaper

Read his interview here: https://amherststudent.com/article/thoughts-on-theses-max-hoffman/amp/

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