The Catalysis & Nanomaterials
Laboratory

Picture Archive.

2016 - 2017.

Sujin and Rio at the 2017 Nakatani REIS Fellowhsip Poster Presentation (Sep. 18, 2017)

All the best to Varun and Priscilla, the newest graduates from our group! (May 14, 2016)

An end-of-semester lunch of sorts for the group! (May 2016)

Group Lunch (September, 2016)

Fernando presents at the SCI Summer Research Colloquium (Aug. 11, 2017)

At the SWCS Meeting! (Apr. 22, 2016)

Some group members (+ Conrad!) enjoying the festivities of the Department's Chevron Lecture on Energy (Apr. 14, 2016)

Happy New Year! (January 2016)

A view at Rice's 2016 Commencement (May 14, 2016)

A send off to Jake at Hungry's (May 12, 2017)

Li and CelloBio presenting as a finalist team at the Rice Launch entrepreneurship competition (March 29, 2017)

Ben, posterizing at the RemTEC summit in Denver (March 8th, 2017)

2014 - 2015.

Conrad, Li, and Mike at Pacifichem 2015 (Dec. 16, 2015)

Li, Mike, and Ciceron enjoying the CENTC 2015 Summer School in Seattle (July 2015)

Some of the Wong group members enjoying the SWCS meeting (April 24, 2015)

John's brilliant poster at the RET session of the 1st Annual Smalley-Curl Institute Summer Research Colloquium (August 7, 2015)

A lunch outing in the Rice Village (July 2015)

Congrats to Dr. Zhao and his beautiful family! (May 16, 2015)

Always wear protective eyewear in the lab and at the Engineering/Natural Science Christmas Party (December 2014)

Dr. Gullapalli! (May 16, 2014)

It's been a while since the last group lunch! (Feb. 2015)

2012 - 2013.

Enjoying the receptions at the AIChE Meeting in SF (November 2013)

Al fresco dining in Houston (July 2013)

A good morning coffee break (June 2013)

A happy day for our latest graduates, Dr. Pretzer and Dr. Warudkar! (May 10, 2013)

A different view of the Group (September 2012)

The Nobel Prize medal is, indeed, made of dreams and gold.

Dr. Kini and Dr. Soultanidis, freshly hooded! (May 11, 2012)

Lori and Zhun, posterizing at the SWCS Meeting (April 20, 2012)

ason with his grad student mentor, Sravani, at the Tudor Fieldhouse for RURS (April 13, 2012)

UnConvention! Great job, Taryn and Juyan (April 13, 2012)

Nanotubes... separate!

Where would Rice be today without its benefactor and award-winning Art Car?

Dr. Wong's trusty mug from the old Rice Coffeehouse, probably 9 years old now (January 2012)

The happy crew at the ACS Meeting in San Diego (March 26, 2012)

2010 - 2011.

The lunch was definitely not nano-sized. Oh my! (October 14, 2011)

Our group's "not-a-group-meeting" meeting in Brochstein Pavilion. (August 9, 2011)

Thank you very much, L.E.!

Thank you, GSA! (May 2011)

Aspiring scientists and engineers learning about self-assembly and nano, at the Children's Museum of Houston for NanoDays (March 27, 2010)

Group meeting on Feb 11 2010, just before Chinese New Year and Valentine's Day! Pizza feast and Chinese cookies

Our first group lunch of the new year 2010, on Martin Luther King Jr Day (1/18/2010)

Our Building, where we spend numerous hours awake conducting research, Is it worth it? No question about it.

Our group lunch at Rice Village, saying farewell to a fruitful 2010! We "lost" Sumedh, Apoorv, Hyun, Nicole, and Juyan! (December 4, 2010)

Juyan, Brandon, Kaoru, Varun, Jean, Sean, and Mike at the 25th Annual Summer Symposium of RQI (August 5, 2011)

Publish! Read! (July 2011)

Dr. Fang and Dr. Benegal, looking sharp! (May 13, 2011)

Finished! at the Southwest Catalysis Society meeting (April 15, 2011)

2008 - 2009.

Dr. Heck at her PhD hooding ceremony (May 9, 2009)

Happy campers at the first group meeting this semester (Spring 2009)

It does snow in Houston! (December 10, 2008)

Fondue with group and friends in Philly (November 2008)

Sending off our Irish friends (April 2008)

See you later, Lynn!

Newest batch of PhD's from the group! (May 9, 2008)

2006 - 2007.

Mike, with Suba and Jie at the AIChE meeting in San Francisco (November 2006)

Mike and Grant B., at the ACS meeting in San Francisco (September 2006)

Vinit M. and Mike N. with their advisor at the PhD hooding ceremony (May 12, 2006)

HDr. Wong in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian Magazine gala (September 15, 2007)

Holiday party or Group meeting at Professor Wong's home? (December 7, 2007)

We really do like our group lunches (especially if Dr. Wong is paying) (August 25, 2007)

Hitesh on an important business call (August 2007)

Lynn and Zhe working together for the greater good (August 2007)

Summer 2006 - we love our wings!

PhD hooding ceremony for Will K. and Pradeep B. (May 11, 2007)

Group lunch, celebrating the happy news! (April 23, 2007)

Group lunch, celebrating the happy news! (April 23, 2007)

Posing at the CHBE Department poster session (March 2007)

Benny, Zhe, and Suba showing their pearly whites.

Benny and Zhe discussing middle school math

Mike, Kim, and Yu-lun pondering the question of the day: suspended or immobilized! (March 2007)

Benny and Amy posing for a quick picture (August 2007)

Nurgul, working with a vacuum (August 2007)

HA Group picture, taken early one morning (Summer 2007)

Mike, with the rest of the NAM Organizing Committee at the conference banquet (June 21, 2007)

The catalysis team at the opening night reception (Houston Museum of Natural Science!) of the NACS 20th North American Meeting (June 17, 2007)

Mike, with Prof. Michel Boudart (his academic great-great-grandfather) to his right and Prof. R. Prins to his left (June 21, 2007)

2004 - 2005.

Nano-Rice!

Christmas Party 2005 @ Boss's Place

Professors Hightower and Wong and Mike Nutt and Will Knowles enjoying the SWCS meeting (Feb. 25, 2005).

Wong Group, Summer 2005

Will Knowles, TEM guru.

Wong Group (2005)

The Wong Research Group Summer 2004

Last lunch with Rana. We'll miss you! (December 2004).

18th Annual RQI Summer Research Colloquium (August 2004).

2002 - 2003.

The graduate student team (January 2003)

The undergraduate team (2003)

Eat-until-you-drop luncheon. (July 2003)

CNL panel

Buffalo wings and beverage extravaganza! (August 2003)

A Wong Group meeting (December 2002)

A picture from one of the first (if not the first) Wong group meetings. Left to right: Mike, Will, Pradeep, Zuze, and Vinit (March 2002)