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COMPASS Faculty Member Albert Liu Featured in AIChE Member Spotlight
COMPASS faculty member Albert T. Liu was recently featured in AIChE’s Member Spotlight series, which recognizes members whose leadership, service, and commitment are helping shape the future of chemical engineering. Liu, a faculty member in the University of Michigan...
Emanuela Del Gado Delivers Keynote at the 100th ACS Colloid & Surface Science Symposium
COMPASS is proud to recognize Emanuela Del Gado for delivering a keynote presentation at the 100th American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, held at the University of Delaware. The symposium marked the centennial of one of the American...
Tiny Nano-Edges Unlock Big Advances in Programmable Nanomaterials
Nature often provides the best blueprint for innovation. Proteins, the molecular machines that power life, owe their remarkable abilities to precisely organized patterns on their surfaces. These intricate surface features allow proteins to fold, recognize one another,...
László Barabási Receives the 2026 Euler Award at NetSci’s 20th Anniversary Conference
COMPASS is pleased to congratulate László Barabási on receiving the 2026 Euler Award, the highest recognition presented by the Network Science Society. Awarded annually, the Euler Award honors a network scientist whose research has fundamentally advanced the field...
COMPASS Researcher Amaan Mohammad Receives Best Poster Award at the 249th ECS Meeting
COMPASS researcher Amaan Mohammad has received a Best Poster Award at the 249th ECS Meeting in Seattle for his presentation titled Aramid Nanofiber Binders for Sustainable Dry Cathodes. The award was presented as part of Symposium A03 and recognizes poster...
New Research from COMPASS Decodes the “Goldilocks Zone” of Nanoparticle Assemblies Using Graph Theory
Graph curvature measures quantify disorder and complexity for self-assembled particle systems.NP assemblies can be viewed as a series of graphs or networks in which nodes represent NPs and edges represent strong interparticle interactions. ORC and AFRC can be found...
VetIF Fellow Andres Carrillo to Graduate an Join VetAP
Andres Carrillo is a former USMC scout sniper that joined the VetIF program in 2025 as a computer science major at UIUC. Since then, he has been working to research the relationships between graph theory minimalism, network topology, and materials topography while...
VetIF Fellow Recognized in the Lab and in the Field
Casey Chason, VetIF Fellow and member of the Velev Lab (NCState) 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...
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...