November 11, 2010
By Benjamin White

The second and third floors of Clippinger Hall's atrium, normally silent on a Thursday afternoon, held a bustling crowd as Ohio University students exhibited their research at the annual NQPI/CMSS Poster Session.

Holding catered croissant sandwiches, students and faculty maneuvered around 51 posters as OU's brightest minds explained their work, some competing for money toward research. The posters presented the newest ideas in nanoscience and materials research.

The panel of faculty judges split the presenters in to undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral categories. The top three posters from the graduate group would receive prizes totaling $475 to be used for research. Poster subjects ranged from the construction of a pulsed laser ultra-fine deposition system to bending a single protein.

First place for the post-doctoral category went to "Quantum Phase Transitions and Kondo
Effect in Parallel Double Quantum Dots" by A. Wong, W. Brian Lane, L.G.G.V. Dias da Silva, K. Ingersent, N. P. Sandler and S. E. Ulloa. In the graduate category, "Phonon Mediated Relaxations and Exciton Lifetimes in Quantum Dot Molecule” by Kushal C. Wijesundara and Eric Stinaff prevailed, and "A Photoactive Platinum Sulfoxide" by Krystyna Chisholm and Jeffrey Rack won the undergraduate group.

Other posters that received medals include "Novel Structural Modeling Techniques for Amorphous Materials" by Bin Cai, Andrew L. Goodwin and David A. Drabold and "The Solvent Dependence of [Ru(bby)(biq)PYSO]2+" by Preston Roeper and Jeffrey Rack.