Spring 2026
- Congrats to Ananya for winning the 2026 Crucible Prize!
- Congratulations to Tate for being awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
- Congratulations to Tate on his new publication "Controlling Self-Assembly, Ordering, and Stability in Poloxamer/Oil Formulations Using Reverse Poloxamers" in Langmuir!
- Welcome to Colin, the newest member of the Calabrese group!
Summer 2025
- Congratulations to Deepti for making the cover of ACS Applied Polymer Materials! The cover depicts silica-modified cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane networks, as described in her new paper.
- Congratulations to Deepti on her new publication "Tuning High-Speed Adhesive Fracture Energies Using Silica-Modified Silicone Release Coatings" in ACS Applied Polymer Materials!
- Congrats to Soumi and our collaborators in the UMN polymer group on their paper "Exploring the Self-Assembly of Glycolipids into Three-Dimensional Network Phases" in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B!
- Welcome Finn and Jaime, our REU students for the summer!
Winter 2025
- Congrats to Michelle, who has been named a McKnight Presidential Fellow!
- Congratulations to Anubhav, who will join Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor in the fall!
- Congratulations to Grace K. for her new publication titled "Low-Intensity Magnetic Fields Induce Anomalous Disorder-to-Order Transition in Spherical Block Copolymer Micelle Solutions" in Macromolecules!
Fall 2024
- Congratulations to Prof. Calabrese for receiving the Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences!
- Welcome to the newest members of the Calabrese group -- Bradley and Yejin!
- Welcome to Anubhav, who will be joining the group as a postdoc!
- Congrats to Diana and Alec for their new publication in Macromolecules titled "Dimethylformamide-Mediated Polymer Microstructure Dictates the Extensional Rheology of Aqueous PNIPAM Solutions"!
Summer 2024
- Dr. Linn is the group's newest doctor -- congrats to Jason for defending his PhD thesis!
- Congratulations to Diana for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Great work, Dr. Zhang!
- Congrats to Ben, Audrey, and Hannah for their publication "A Scalable and Surfactant-Free Emulsion Method for Producing Microbeads from Varied Biomass Feedstocks" in Langmuir!
- Ben successfully defends his PhD thesis -- congrats, Dr. Robertson!
Spring 2024
- Congratulations to Joanna and our Cornell collaborators on the publication of "A Pseudo-Surfactant Chemical Permeation Enhancer to Treat Otitis Media via Sustained Transtympanic Delivery of Antibiotics" in Adv. Healthcare Mater!
- Chris's manuscript "Magnetic field-dependent rheological behavior of thermoresponsive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions" is accepted in Rheologica Acta!
- Jason and Fabian's manuscript "Cosolvent incorporation modulates the thermal and structural response of PNIPAM/silyl methacrylate copolymers" is published in Soft Matter!
Winter 2024
- Soumi's manuscript "Self-Assembly of Unusually Stable Thermotropic Network Phases by Cellobiose-Based Guerbet Glycolipids" is published in Biomacromolecules!
- Chris successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis! Congrats, Dr. Neal!
- Prof. Calabrese named McKnight Land-Grant Professor. Congratulations!
Fall 2023
- Prof. Calabrese featured in "35+1 challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2023."
- Chris and Prof. Calabrese travel to Australia for neutron scattering experiments at ANSTO
- Welcome back Diana, who spent the summer as an intern at NREL!
- Welcome to the group undergraduate researcher Emily Chen!
- Congratulations to Joanna, Adelyn, Prof. Bates, and Prof. Calabrese on their Macromolecules manuscript "Effect of Chain Architecture on the Structure, Dynamics, and Rheology of Thermoresponsive Poloxamer Hydrogels and Associated Blends."
Summer 2023
- Patrick's manuscript "Interplay of wall slip and shear banding in wormlike micelle solutions" is published in J. Nonnewton. Fluid Mech.
- Patrick defended his Ph.D. thesis "Understanding self-assembly and flow heterogeneities in poloxamer wormlike micelles." Congratulations!
Spring 2023
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Congratulations to Deepti on passing her qualifying exam!
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Graduate researcher Tate joins the group. Welcome aboard!
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Ben wins the university's Doctoral Defense Fellowship, funding the final year of his research! Congratulations!
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Patrick's paper "Evolution of flow reversal and flow heterogeneities in high elasticity wormlike micelles (WLMs) with a yield stress" is published in J. Rheol.
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Joanna, Ally and Jimmy's paper "Engineering the structure and rheological properties of P407 hydrogels via reverse poloxamer addition" is published in Langmuir
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Prof. Calabrese wins both the American Chemical Society PMSE Early Investigator Honoree and the American Physical Society UKPPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange. Congrats!
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Our first Ph.D graduate, Dr. Kathleen Lauser, defended her thesis, titled "Characterizing the flow behavior of protein and excipient solutions using Dripping-onto-Substrate extensional rheometry" Congratulations!
Fall 2022
- Chris and Grace's paper "Effect of nanoparticle loading and magnetic field application on the thermodynamic, optical, and rheological behavior of thermoresponsive polymer solutions" is accepted in J. Vinyl Addit. Technol. special issue on the role of additives in rheology and processing
- Kathleen's paper selected as the cover of the AIChE Journal Futures Edition
Summer 2022
- Chris' paper "Tuning the thermodynamic, optical, and rheological properties of thermoresponsive polymer solutions via silica nanoparticle shape and concentration" in published in J. Coll. Int. Sci.
- Kathleen's paper "Polysorbate identity and quantity dictate the extensional flow properties of protein-excipient solutions" is published in AIChE J.
- Undergraduate researchers Abbie, Ally, Chelsea, Fabian, and Romy join the group. Welcome!
- Jason's paper "Role of chain architecture on the solution phase assembly and thermoreversibility of aqueous PNIPAM/silyl methacrylate copolymers" is published in Polym. Chem.
Spring 2022
- Grace and Michelle Q win the first annual CEMS Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Action and Service (IDEAS) Awards. Good work!
- Michelle Q. wins a Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Award. Congratulations!
- Diana's paper "Temperature-controlled dripping-onto-substrate (DoS) extensional rheometry of polymer micelle solutions" is published in Soft Matter.
- Congratulations to Joanna on passing her qualifying exam!
- Grace and Michelle Q. win President's Student Leadership and Service Awards. Congratulations!
- Michelle Q. selected as one of four recipients of the Donald R. Zander Alumni Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. We are proud of you!
Winter 2022
- Congratulations to Michelle Q on winning the CSE Impact Award!
- Ben's paper "Evaporation-controlled dripping-onto-substrate (DoS) extensional rheology of viscoelastic polymer solutions" is published in Sci. Rep.
- Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Sruthi Lalitha joins the group. Welcome!
- Prof. Calabrese wins an NSF CAREER Award. Congrats!
- Undergraduate researcher Jerry Rott joins the group. Welcome aboard!
- Joanna's paper "Impact of small molecule and reverse poloxamer addition on the micellization and gelation mechanisms of poloxamer hydrogels" is published in Colloids Surf. A Physicochem. Eng. Asp.
Fall 2021
- Chris receives honors as a Caretta Outstanding Unit Operations TA. Congratulations, Chris!
- Graduate researcher Deepti Kannan joins the group. Welcome!
- Congratulations to Grace on winning the CEMS Outstanding TA award!
- Kathleen's paper "Small-volume extensional rheology of concentrated protein and protein-excipient solutions" is published in Soft Matter.
- Patrick's paper "Criteria governing rod formation and growth in nonionic polymer micelles" is published in Langmuir and receives ACS Editors' Choice.
- Prof. Calabrese publishes "Development of a Rubber Recycling Process Based on a Single-Component Interfacial Adhesive" in ACS Appl. Polym. Mater.
Summer 2021
- Nondumiso and Lucas join the group as undergraduate researchers.
- Christine, Lena, and Valeria join the group as summer researchers.
- Ben, Diana, Grace, and Jason pass their qualifying exams. Congratulations!
- Undergraduate researcher Michelle Quan begins DOE SULI program at NREL
Spring 2021
- Prof. Calabrese wins 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. Congrats!
- Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Karthika Suresh moves onto her next adventure at University of Illinois at Chicago. Best of luck—we'll miss having you in the group, Karthika!
- Undergraduate researcher Calvin Harris joins the group. Welcome aboard!
Fall 2020
- Graduate researcher Joanna White joins the group. Welcome aboard!
- Dr. Soumi Das joins the group as a postdoctoral scholar, co-advised by Professor Theresa Reineke. Welcome!
Summer 2020
- Michelle Q. delivers a wonderful presentation titled "Automated quantitative analysis of silica nanorod dimensions via watershed segmentation" at the MSROP Showcase on her summer research.
- Ben, Diana, and Jason join the Center for Sustainable Polymers.
Spring 2020
- Congratulations to Jimmy Griebler on graduating with a BBE in Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, and a BS in Mathematics! Looking forward to the amazing things you will accomplish during your PhD at Illinois!
- Congratulations to Kathleen, Patrick, and Chris on passing their qualifying exams! Proud to have our first PhD candidates in the group!
- Prof. Calabrese, Kathleen, and Patrick travel to NIST to scatter some neutrons.
- Undergraduate researchers Michelle Quan and Amy Rueter join the group.
- Chris and Patrick travel to NIST to perform neutron scattering experiments.
Fall 2019
- Prof. Calabrese, Karthika, and Patrick travel to NIST to perform neutron scattering experiments.
- Calabrese group is awarded the JST Safest Lab Award. Pretty neat!
- Graduate student researchers Grace Kresge, Jason Linn, Benjamin Robertson, and Diana Zhang join the Calabrese group. Welcome!
- Karthika travels to Argonne National Lab for a magneto-SAXS experiment with the polymer group.
- Prof. Calabrese travels to the Society of Rheology meeting in Raleigh, NC to present drug delivery work in collaboration with Rong Yang at Cornell University.
- Prof. Calabrese publishes 3D Printed Cartilage‐Like Tissue Constructs with Spatially Controlled Mechanical Properties in Advanced Functional Materials with collaborators at Harvard Medical School.
- The lab welcomes Isabelle Jones, Jimmy Griebler, and Kush Patel as undergraduate researchers.
Summer 2019
- Prof. Calabrese, Patrick, and Karthika travel to NIST NCNR to conduct neutron scattering experiments. The neutrons don't sleep and neither will they!
- Keyla Nguyen returns to University of Minnesota, Duluth. Good luck in the semester!
- Keyla Nguyen and Isabelle Jones join the Calabrese lab for the summer
- Michelle Calabrese arrives at UMN. Home Sweet Home!
- Kathleen Lauser attended the HFIR/SNS Advanced Neutron Diffraction and Scattering workshop (HANDS 2019)
- Kathleen Lauser was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats Kathleen!
Spring 2019
- Dr. Karthika Suresh joins the group from CSIR in Pune, India. Welcome Karthika!