First, on March 15th Ryan, who is advised by Stu Wolf, successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Also in mid-March, Ryan received word back from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Selected for the Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, he will hold a position within the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL working on oxide molecular beam epitaxy. He will start this summer.
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Finally, At the 2013 Spring Materials Research Society meeting (okay technically April not March) , Ryan received a Silver Award in the Graduate Student Awards final session.
During his career as a PhD candidate, Ryan has earned numerous awards including: Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2012; SEAS Graduate Teaching Fellow in 2012; he was a finalist for the 2012 Presidential Research Poster Competition, won 1st place at UVERS 2012, and 5th place at UVERS 2011. Ryan also earned a highly competitive national NDSEG National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship in 2010.
An exciting spring to cap off a great graduate career indeed!