Welcome (and happy birthday) Yimeng Xu!

The Tringides Lab is thrilled to welcome Yimeng Xu to our group! Yimeng is an incoming fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), majoring in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. Her broad research interests lie at the...

Goodbye party for Nick!

As summer ends, the lab says goodbye to Nick Kyriakides-Crowe, our visiting undergrad student from University of Southern California. We were glad to see Nick working hard throughout his stay at the lab, his work on alginate hydrogels’ mechanical properties...

SURF 2025 – Angel’s poster presentation

Last week we had our summer undergraduate student Angel de La Fuente present his work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2025 poster session! This was his first time ever presenting a poster, and we’re glad to say he did an amazing job! With this...

Summer Rotation Spotlight: Nick Kyriakides-Crowe

We’re thrilled to welcome Nick Kyriakides-Crowe, an undergraduate student from Houston, TX, who is joining the Tringides Lab for a summer research rotation! Nick is currently studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research...

Lab bonding – pottery painting class!

Our first lab bonding activity! We finally got a chance to spend some time together outside of the lab in a chill and creative pottery painting class. Aside from being great scientists, we proved to be amazing artists as well, with designs ranging from colorful...