UK UGR has announced the 10 undergraduate students who have been selected as 5-Minute Fast Track Research Competition finalists. Finalists will present their research in five minutes in front of a panel of judges and a live audience on Oct 21. Learn more: research.uky.edu/news/10-studen…

A big thank you to Kelsey Kelsey B. Hatzell for her fantastic presentation at today's Odom Lecture in honor of our good friend and colleague Susan Susan Odom

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

One day you’re young and wild; the next, it’s Monday, and you’re dialing into a teams call.

Congratulations to Risko Lab @ UK graduate student researcher Sahar Bayat on an outstanding oral exam today!

Exciting postdoc opportunity for organic/polymer chemists. Come and work on self-assembled nanofibers for photocatalytic hydrogen production with Assistant Professor Catherine Aitchison. liu.se/en/work-at-liu… #chempostdoc Chemjobber

Congratulations to Risko Lab @ UK graduate student Megan Brown on passing her oral qualifying exam today! (I'm a bad advisor, though, and forgot to take the requisite picture.)

There is still a postdoctoral opening related to this project. Applicants with expertise in programming and machine learning interatomic potentials can send me a CV and motivational letter.

If you are already in Boston, or traveling in the next day or two, check out the awesome Risko Lab @ UK presentations at #F24MRS

We had the pleasure visiting our colleagues at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at #ORNL. Lots of mutual interest on nanostructured polymers, organic electronics, AI/ML/simulations, dielectric materials, 2D/quantum materials, and hyphenated characterizations.

nature.com/articles/s4192… Improving the stability of organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors Nature Electronics UK Center for Applied Energy Research Iain McCulloch Nir Tessler Chad Risko

Another great paper from Alexandra F. Paterson - showing that a combination of deoxygenation and her favourite dopant C60F48, dramatically improves the stability in p-type mixed conductors. A must read!!

Several members of the Risko lab are attending and presenting research at the Spring 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting this week. If you are in Seattle this week, be sure to stop by and check out these fantastic researchers. #S25MRS

Evaluating Molecular Similarity Measures: Do Similarity Measures Reflect Electronic Structure Properties? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Chad Risko Risko Lab @ UK #JCIM Vol65 Issue9 #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

This Call for Papers from ACS Materials Au seeks to highlight the design, manufacturing, functional properties, and mathematical/computational modeling of complex materials. Submit your manuscript by December 31, 2025. Submit your research 👉 go.acs.org/cRv

What a great year for research faculty, staff, and students at the UniversityofKentucky!