Here in the Bhatia Lab,
we believe that science is very rewarding and a lot of fun, but it is also hard.
So we should always celebrate the good parts!
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A beautiful pattern formed from a broken film (Jiachun)
Our year-end cookie decorating party to celebrate all that we've accomplished in 2020 despite a difficult year due to the pandemic.
Dr. Bhatia and Dr. Zheng!
Bing's doctoral hooding ceremony, June 2019.
Congratulations, Dr. Zheng!
Congratulations to James Breton on being named URECA Researcher of the Month!! February 2019.
Some of the awesome women being recognized by AIChE WIC for Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Engineering.
Back row: Karen Gleason (MIT), Surita (yay!), Caroline Reynolds (CR Solutions), Cynthia Ortega-Murphy (Chevron). Front row: Julianne Holloway (WIC Chair, AZ State), Bihter Padak (session co-chair), Joan Brennecke (UT Austin), Sharon Glotzer (Univ. of Michigan), LaShanda Korley (Univ. of DE, session co-chair). Photo by AIChE’s Gordon Ellis. November 2018.
Surita is very excited to be one of the invited speakers at the AIChE WIC 20th Anniversary Symposium Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering!! Come to the meeting and hear these women's fabulous science. Oct 2018.
Wonderful news! Xiao Liu's recent publication on nanoparticle stratification rated as a Highly Cited Paper by Web of Science/ESI, among the top 1% of number of citations in the field of Chemistry, based on publication year, as of Oct 2018.
Congratulations to Xuechen Yin on his paper in Soft Matter! He spent so much time making this image that I had to post it!! August 2018.
Surita (with a nifty conehead hat), Amanda Carr, Bing Zheng, Xiaoxi Yu, Weiping Liu, and Xuechen Yin, out for group lunch at Friendly's, where we learned from Bing that ice cream is an acceptable lunch, August 2018.
Ruchi Patel, Amanda Carr, Xiaoxi Yu, Suan Quah, Bing Zheng, and Surita say good-bye on Ruchi's last day in lab. (All the men in lab slept in this day, apparently). May 2018.
Andrew Smith receives the ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry before heading off for a PhD at UMass. Congratulations Andrew!! May 2018.
Getting our labs ready for renovation with our fearless leader, March 2018.
Bing Zheng, Xiaoxi Yu, and Amanda Carr are the first external users on the new vSANS beamline at NIST! Super cool. May 2018.
Bing delivered Thai food for everyone who stayed late collecting XPCS data at BNL's NSLS-II. Thanks Bing! January 2018.
Ana Estrada and Surita at the REU Poster session, August 2017.
Amanda Carr wins the Outstanding Poster Award at the BNL Early Career Researcher Symposium!!! Congratulations Amanda. November 2017.
Surita proves that she is not completely useless at the bench at the EQ-SANS beamline, Oak Ridge National Lab, March 2017.
Beamtime at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
March 2017
Xuechen Yin, Bing Zheng, and Suan Quah, taking a break from SANS to enjoy nature near Oak Ridge National Lab, March 2017.
Congratulations, Wendy, on successfully defending your dissertation!
May 2017
Suan Quah, Surita, and Bing Zheng (front row), Xiaoxi Yu, Weiping Liu, and Xuechen Yin (back row) at the ACS COLL Division meeting at City College, July 2017.
At the Simons Center for another group lunch. It has been a good year. Weiping Liu, Xuechen Yin, Ruchi Patel, Xiaoxi Yu, Bingqian Zheng, Amanda Carr, Suan Quah, Andrew Smith, Surita Bhatia, Wendy Hom, baby Adriana, and Andrew Tse. February 2017.
Before group lunch, introducing Adriana to the group. Suddenly we have enough people to have rows.
Back row: Ruchi Patel, Andrew Smith, Mark Chan, Imran Khan, Amanda Carr, Xiaoxi Yu, Weiping Liu, Xuechen Yin. Middle row: Suan Quah, Bingqian Zheng. Front row: Wendy Hom, Surita Bhatia, baby Adriana. February 2017.
At the Simons Center. Back row: Andrew Tse (an honorary Bhatia group member for fixing the rheometer computer), Andrew Smith, Xuechen Yin, Imran Khan, Weiping Liu. Middle row: Suan Quah, Surita Bhatia again with baby Adriana, Amanda Carr, Bingqian Zheng, Xiaoxi Yu. Front row: Wendy Hom.
Xiao Liu wins the ACS PMSE Best Poster Award at the 2016 ACS Spring Meeting in San Diego!!! March 2016. Photo on left from the PMSE Twitter account
A partial group picture, with a much more relaxed Suahsini (Dr. Kishore!), post-defense. Bing Zhang, Xiao Liu, Surita Bhatia, Suhasini Kishore, Wendy Hom). December 2016.
Celebrating with good friends in MA after Suhasini's defense. Suhasini Kishore, Vivek Sundaram, Ragu (Ford group, UMass), Soonyong So (Hayward group, UMass). December 2016.
Suhasini Kishore's PhD defense. December 2016.
Suhasini Kishore with friends and family after her PhD defense. Suhasini Kishore, Vivek Sundaram, and Suhasini's aunt and uncle. December 2016.
Joe White comes back to party with rheologists and school his former groupmates. Xiao Liu, Suhasini Kishore, Surita Bhatia, Wendy Hom, and Joe White, Society of Rheology meeting, October 2015.
Surita Bhatia, Xiao Liu, Wendy Hom, hanging out with folks from the Ewoldt group from UIUC at the Society of Rheology Meeting, October 2015. Who wouldn't want to hang out with folks from the Ewoldt group?
Sunita Srivastava, Suhasini Kishore, Xiao Liu, and lots of coffee at Chemistry Research Day, October 2013.
Baby, it's cold outside! Going out for group lunch, Sunita Srivastava, Suhasini Kishore, Surita, Xiao Liu, and Ying Chen, 2013.
Joe White, Suhasini Kishore, Xiao Liu, and Wendy Hom, celebrating at some overpriced restaurant in Stony Brook, 2013.
A group lunch at Paradise of India in Amherst, MA, perhaps in 2012. Anand Atmuri, Surita, David Griffin, Erika Saffer, Jean Smith, Suhasini Kishore.
These are all for me. Suhasini Kishore at a group lunch, 2013.
Ying Chen dives in to help Suhasini at group lunch, 2013.
Party at the Bhatia house in Masschusetts. Back row: Mom Bhatia, Xiaoming Pan and wife, Neha Raikar, David Griffin and friend, Soumitra Choudhary. Front row: Surita Bhatia, Smitha Nair and friend, baby Julian Khalifah, August 2008.
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