November, 2026: Rachel Campbell was selected as a recipient of the Safford Award for Excellence as a Graduate Student Teacher!
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October, 2026: Kay Carter-Fenk was named a recipient of a Charles E. Kaufman Foundation New Investigator award!
February, 2026: The Carter-Fenk group was just awarded a Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Community Collaboration Award for the proposal, A Phylogenetic Quantum Leap in Understanding the Magnetic Compass of Migratory Lepidoptera! We will be working with Prof. Nathan Clark's lab to identify evolutionarily conserved amino acids in the cryptochrome 1 protein of migratory Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). We will use this information to build various quantum mechanical models of cryptochrome 1 to simulate the origins of the incredible magnetic sense used by butterflies and moths to make spectacular migrations.
January, 2026: We are excited to welcome four new PhD students to our research program: Aliza Blackmon, Rachel Campbell, Landon Rudy, and Shawna Sinchak!
March, 2025: Congratulations to Ella Ransford and Andrew Ricciuti for receiving the Wass Fellowship!
2025 Wass Fellows: Photograph taken at the Undergraduate Awards Luncheon. Ella and Andrew are pictured in the back row 5th from the left and 6th from the left, respectively.
February 4, 2025: We are excited to have Bayan Anderson join us this Spring as an undergraduate researcher!
September 20, 2024: Our first graduate student, Rafi Azam, has joined the group! Welcome, Rafi!
August 26, 2024: We are excited to have Brenna Stape join us this Fall as an undergraduate researcher!
September 15, 2024: We are delighted to announce that Sylvia Bintrim will be joining the group on September 15, 2024 as a postdoctoral associate!
June 1, 2024: We are delighted to announce that Abdulrahman Zamani will be joining the group on June 1, 2024 as a postdoctoral associate!
August, 2024: We are thrilled to announce that Ella Ransford will be joining us in August 2024 as an undergraduate researcher!
August 1, 2024: The Carter-Fenk research group starts up at the University of Pittsburgh! Interested in joining us?
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