Ms. Sheba S. Plamthottam, a junior in Upland High School, has won the 4^th place with a medal in the 2008 California State Science Fair Competition in the Chemistry category. She carried out a project entitled “Green Preparation and Characterization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanocrystals”.  Under Jianping's supervision, she developed a synthetic procedure for the preparation of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocrystals by following the green chemistry principle. Her method has the advantage of being economical and environmentally friendly.  Prior to the state competition, she also won the 1st Place Gold Medal in the San Bernardino County.

We enthusiastically supported Ms. Lisa Fleming and other two undergraduate students from the Moore School of Electrical & Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania for their senior project "Inkless Color Blackboard with Memory".  The goal of the project is to build a blackboard by creating a two-dimensional array of isolated electromagnets which can be programmed to control the color of pixels (our tunable photonic crystals).

Ms. Magaly Vargas, an undergraduate student from University of Costa Rica (another UCR in Central America) presented our research on tunable photonic crystals to her class. Her presentation was well-received.

We worked with the Science Museum at London on an online exhibition to teach kids from all over the world about "nano-technicolour".