Renske attends workshop "Development of an Integrated Transmission Electron Microscope" at
The goal of this workshop is to identify the fundamental limitations in current TEM instruments and to develop ideas, "thinking...
Group Outing: Paintball Battles
The van der Veen group and friends did battle at Saltfork Paintball. Team blue was victorious.
Van der Veen lab receives funding from ACS PRF!
We are excited about receiving the news that our proposal "Ultrafast Carrier and Structural Dynamics in Plasmon-Enhanced Heterogeneous...
Youngest addition to the van der Veen lab!
Our newest lab member, Oscar, was born on April 26th. His big sister, Frederica, will supervise him and make sure that he will be up to...
Henry is awarded a Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Chemistry
Congrats to Henry, who was awarded a $3k Summer Research Fellowship by the Department. This will support Henry's work on X-rays...
Cecilia won an APS Student Poster Prize at the 2018 APS/CNM Users Meeting, Congrats!
Cecilia was awarded a Student Poster Prize for her poster entitled, “Internal Atomic-scale Structure, Band Alignment, and Charge Transfer...
Sasha is awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congrats to Sasha for winning a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! We are very proud, but sad to see Sasha leave this summer....
CHEM590X students take a "Behind the Scenes" tour of the Advanced Photon Source!
CHEM 590X students went on a field trip to the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron at Argonne National Lab. We received a rare "behind...
We Installed a New Femtosecond OPA Laser
A new femtosecond laser was installed close to the MRL Hitachi-9500 ETEM. It consists of a femtosecond 1030 nm pump laser (Pharos) and a...