Not an April Fool's! Congratulations to Dr. Dustin Harmon for defending his thesis and finishing his Ph.D. career! We are so proud of you and we thank you for all of your accomplishments in the lab! We wish the best of luck for your future! :)

Saturday, Feb 24th, some of the lab members went to the Polar Plunge to help support the Special Olympics!

We had our traditional Fountain Ceremony for our latest Dr. Aleksandr Razumtcev! Thank you Sasha for all the good times and we wish you luck in your future! Sasha, you are a clear example of a Ph.D.! We will miss you!

Congratulations to Dr. Aleksandr Razumtcev for defending his thesis and finishing his Ph.D. career! We are so proud of you and will sincerely miss you!

Congratulations to Timothy Hwang for finishing and passing his OP! We are very proud of him! Way to go!

On October 28th, our undergraduate students (Matt Wilson, Julia Ting) went to undergraduate research conference at UIUC to present on their research!

We would like to congratulate Gwendylan Turner for passing her OP/preliminary exam on October 20, 2023! She is now a Ph.D. candidate and we are very proud of her! Woohoo! 🙌🙌🎉🎉

Congratulations Sasha once again on receiving 2 FACSS awards during SciX!

From October 8-13, some of the Simpson group students (Timothy, Sasha, and Minghe - a recent graduate) went to SciX 2023. It was very great catching up, meeting new people and friends, and also learning about spectroscopy!

Our latest manuscript by Gwendylan Turner et al. has been published! Check it out!

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Our latest manuscript by Minghe Li et al. has been published! Check it out!

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We had our traditional Fountain Ceremony for our latest Dr. Ziyi Cao! Thank you Ziyi for all the good times and we wish you luck in your future! Ziyi, you are a clear example of a Ph.D.! We will miss you!

Sept 7, 2023 - We would like to congratulate Dr. Ziyi Cao for defending her thesis and finishing her Ph.D. career! We are so proud of you and will sincerely miss you!

Congratulations to Minghe, Sasha, Gwen, and Timothy on their successful acceptance of the Fluorescence Recovery While Photobleaching manuscript in Analytical Chemistry. Congrats! You're collectively not making it any easier for us to catch up on our group meeting champagne queue.

I have been late in updating and properly congratulating our lab! Congratulations to everyone in the lab for their hard work but also for receiving awards! For more info, visit our website!

Congratulations to Sasha on his selection for a Coblentz Society Student Award for 2023! This award recognizes accomplishments in the area of vibrational spectroscopy. Sasha will be recognized during the upcoming SciX meeting in Sparks Nevada in the Fall!