Yates Lab News

** 2024 NEWS **

September 2024

• Dr. Yates has been named the recipient of the 2025 PUI Faculty Award from the Biophysical Society.  She will be honored at the Society’s 69th Annual Meeting, being held in Los Angeles, California from February 15-19, 2025. The PUI Faculty Award, new in 2025, honors excellence in academic research and mentoring by faculty at a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI). You can read the press release for the award linked here. 

August 2024

• Dr. Yates has begun her research sabbatical for AY25 as a Visiting Scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Summer 2024

• Summer research is underway! Dr. Yates and the rotational midshipmen interns (1/C Sanjana Basu Mallick and 2/C Maria Fernald) are at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

May 2024

• ANCHORS AWEIGH to our two 2024 graduates! Wishing the best of luck to Chloe and Eva as newly commissioned Ensigns and Second Lieutenants in the fleet!

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Chloe Skogg for winning the 2024 Trident Scholar Prize!  This is the top midshipman award at USNA! Her project entitled: "Formulation of Barnacle-Inspired Underwater Adhesives Using Commercially Available Products" was in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory.  Job well done Chloe!  You can watch her presentation linked here.  (Start at 3hrs. 35 min.)

April 2024

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Chloe Skogg on her acceptance to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD for medical school!

• Dr. Yates, ENS K. Nachtrieb, ENS J. Fuller, and 1/C C. Skogg were acknowledged as co-authors on a paper recognized by the US Naval Research Laboratory with a prestigious NRL Annual Research Publication Awards Dinner (ARPAD) research publication award. The paper is linked here. 

• CONGRATULATIONS to ENS Jackson Fuller (Class of 2023, Chemistry) for being awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal from the US Naval Research Laboratory. This notable award is for meritorious service and achievement. 

March 2024

• • 1/C Eva Torres presented her research poster at the ACS Spring Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

February 2024

• • Dr. Yates was invited by the USNA Nimitz Library to take part in the USNA Faculty Research Talk Series.   Her talk entitled: “Understanding amyloids: Barnacle-inspired Underwater Adhesives and Neurodegenerative Disease,” was given as an overview of her lab's research focus.

  • 1/C Chloe Skogg presented a conference talk at the Adhesion Society meeting in Savannah, GA.  She was the ONLY undergraduate to present her research in a 15 minute oral presentation!!

  • Dr. Yates also gave a talk at the Adhesion Society in Savannah, GA.

January 2024

• We are back form the winter holiday and getting ready for upcoming conferences!  

• CONGRATULATIONS to our firsties on their new positions within the Brigade! 

  • 1/C Chloe Skogg - 1st Platoon Commander and 1/C Eva Torres - 6th Company Training Officer

**2023 NEWS**

November 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Eva Torres on her service selection to Marine Corps - Aviation! Ooo-rah!

October 2023

• Check out Dr. Yates' newest publication with midshipmen co-authors (K. Nachtrieb, J. Fuller, and C. Skogg) and our NRL collaborators in Advanced Functional Materials entitled "Underwater Adhesives Produced by Chemically Induced Protein Aggregation" (linked here). 

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Eva Torres on her selection as Second Battalion - Squad Leader of the Month and Regimental - Squad Leader of the Month! Way to go Eva!

September 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Chloe Skogg on her service selection to the Medical Corps earlier this month!

August 2023

• Classes have started and our research has begun with 1/C Chloe Skogg (Trident Scholar) and 1/C Eva Torres!

Summer 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS to ENS Jackson Fuller (Class of 2023) on winning GOLD in the lightweight men's pair at the 2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.    

• Summer research is underway! Dr. Yates and the rotational midshipmen interns (1/C Chloe Skogg and 2/C Abdon Vivas Tejada) are at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

May 2023

• ANCHORS AWEIGH to our three 2023 graduates! Wishing the best of luck to Kelly, Millie, and Jackson as newly commissioned Ensigns in the fleet!

• Check out Dr. Yates' new publication in Soft Matter entitled "Role of protein aggregate structure on the strength and underwater performance of barnacle-inspired adhesives" (linked here).

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Jackson Fuller on being awarded the Chemistry Department's Faculty Research Award for AY2023.   

• Prof. Yates was selected as the 2023 Departmental Nominee for the George L. Braude Award, The Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society

April 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Millie Oldham on her acceptance to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD for medical school!

• 2/C Chloe Skogg presented her research at the Inter-Academy Chemical Symposium (IACS) at the US Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. 

March 2023

• 1/C Millie Oldham and 1/C Kelly Hughes presented their research at the Spring ACS Meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

• CONGRATULATIONS to 2/C Chloe Skogg on being selected as a USNA Trident Scholar for academic year 2023 - 2024 for her continued research on barnacle-inspired underwater adhesives in collaboration with the US Naval Research Lab. This is a highly competitive and prestigious designation awarded to only 11 midshipman in her class. Way to go Chloe!

• We are pleased to welcome 2/C Eva Torres to the lab for next academic year! 

February 2023

• CONGRATULATIONS to 1/C Jackson Fuller for winning the "Best Poster Award" at the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.  Jackson was selected as the top poster presentation at the conference and awarded a cash prize.  Job well done Jackson!

January 2023

• We are excited to announce the following midshipmen have accepted internship positions at NRL for Summer 2023: 2/C Chloe Skogg and 3/C Abdon Vivas Tejada.

• 1/C Kelly Hughes was the "Featured Firstie" on the USNA Instagram page. Be sure to check it out (linked here).  Congrats Kelly!