News

A New York Times article discusses our recent publication in Joule and provides excellent context for its motivations and potential impact.

John Brewer was selected as one of seven students in this year’s NRT-INFEWS cohort at UCLA. Congratulations! http://www.infews.ucla.edu/trainees

Our publication on a night-time power generation device was just published in Joule, and is accessible here: https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30412-X

Prof. Raman was interviewed as part of a piece about air conditioning and its impact on our planet, on NPR/ PRI’s daily show The World: https://www.pri.org/file/2019-09-02/air-conditioning-heating-world

Many thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their support of our work. Prof. Raman was awarded Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics this year. UCLA News Article

Prof. Raman was invited to visit 3M and deliver a keynote at their annual Films Symposium. A great visit, and really exciting to interact with the large research community at 3M.

Prof. Raman was selected to participate in the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Arab-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, held in Kuwait in November.

Prof. Raman received the Material Research Society (MRS) Nelson Buck Robinson Award for Science and Technology in Renewable Energy at the MRS 2018 Fall Meeting in Boston. The MRS Bulletin also interview Prof. Raman for a great article about his work and interests in renewable energy, that’s available here: MRS Bulletin Interview with Aaswath Raman

Prof. Raman was invited to give seminars at Penn State and Columbia University this fall — many thanks to our hosts for their hospitality! He also had the honor of delivering the Carnot Prize Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania in October.  

Aaswath was interviewed by Top of Mind, a show produced and broadcast by BYU Radio in Utah. Thanks for the excellent conversation and questions! Listen to the interview here