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VetIF Fellow Recognized in the Lab and in the Field
Casey Chason, a member of the Valev Lab and US Army Research Combat Engineer, recently received awards for his research and his contribution to operational excellence. In March 2026 he attended the TechConnect World Innovation Conference as an invited speaker after...
Congratulations to our fellows Jebril Thaxton and Olubukola Akinbami!
In Dec. 2025 they became the first of our fellows to graduate. Jebril has taken a PhD student appointment with the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering with a focus on optics and photonics. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Rackham...
COMPASS Showcases Leadership in Complex Materials at APS Global Physics Summit
COMPASS: Center for Complex Particle Systems played a leading role at the APS Global Physics Summit, hosting two highly attended tutorials and contributing to a featured session on complex particles. Organized by Professors Xiaoming Mao and Nicholas Kotov, the...
COMPASS Represents Michigan Engineering at the President’s Symposium for Research Impact
COMPASS: Center for Complex Particle Systems was honored to represent the University of Michigan College of Engineering at this year’s President’s Symposium for Research Impact and Policy Leadership—an event that celebrates research driving meaningful change in...
Join Us in Celebrating Our Newest PhD: Dr. Jamadgni.
We are thrilled to celebrate Dhanush’s graduation from North Carolina State University, where he has been a cornerstone of Prof. Martin Thuo’s lab and a vital member of the COMPASS ecosystem. Dhanush’s doctoral research is a powerful example of the COMPASS...
Accelerating Protein–Protein Interaction Discovery with Graph Theory and Deep Learning
Center for Complex Particle Systems researchers have developed a faster, more accessible way to analyze protein–protein interactions (PPIs) by combining graph theory (GT) with deep learning (DL). Their newly published open-access study in Advanced Intelligent...
Unveiling the Invisible
Dr. Yash Boyjoo completed a research fellowship at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (USA), funded by the COMPASS–CERA program. Working with Junseo Lee in Prof. Qian Chen’s laboratory, he used state-of-the-art X‑ray tomography and electron microscopy to...
COMPASS-Funded PI Barabási Co-Authors Nature Paper on Hidden Rules of Physical Network Design
COMPASS is pleased to highlight a new Nature publication exploring how real-world physical networks—from the brain’s connectome to vascular systems, trees, corals, and fungi—are shaped by deeper geometric constraints than previously understood. In “Surface...
Fellow Spotlight: Casey Chason Recognized with Army Achievement Medal
The NSF COMPASS Veterans Innovation Fellowship at the University of Michigan is honored to celebrate the achievements of fellow Casey Chason (NCSU, Biomedical Engineering ’26). Casey was recently awarded the Army Achievement Medal for meritorious service during his...
New COMPASS-Supported Research Published in Advanced Science: Using Graph Theory to Discover Alloy Possibilities
Understanding how elements mix is one of the grand challenges in materials science. With 118 known elements and millions of possible combinations, identifying promising alloys has often relied on heuristics, trial-and-error, or computationally expensive models. In a...
VetIF Student Earns Best Student Abstract Award and Oral Presentation Slot at TechConnect World 2026
COMPASS is thrilled to announce that VetIF Student Casey Chason has received two distinguished honors from the 29th Annual TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo, taking place March 10–12, 2026, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Casey was selected as a winner of...
Explore Your STEM Passions with the COMPASS Virtual Consulting Program
Download flyer: https://compass.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/COMPASS-consulting-flyer.pdf High school students with a passion for STEM now have a unique opportunity to take their curiosity to the next level. The COMPASS Virtual Consulting Program...