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She is from China.

New doctoral student, Yang Song, joins the Cao Research group at the University of Florida. She received her bachelors degree from Fundan University in Shanghai, China.

New doctoral student, Yiran Zhu, joins the Cao Research group at the University of Florida. He received his bachelors degree from Shanghai Fudan University.

New doctoral student, Tian Jiang, joins the Cao Research group at the University of Florida. He received his bachelors degree from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and has a masters degree from University of California-Irvine.

Xiaoman Zhai, a friendly visiting student from China, joins the Cao Research Group at the University of Florida. She comes from the Beijing Institute of Technology and will be visiting for one year.

Hongxiao Yang, an amiable visiting student from China, joins the Cao Research Group at the University of Florida. She comes from Shan Dong University and will be visiting for one year.

Rady Ho, an undergraduate in Biochemistry at the Univeristy of Florida, comes to the Cao Research Group to learn and participate in Bioanalytical research.

Dr. Huimeng Wu receives her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Florida and moves forward in her career by accepting a post-doctoral job at Los Alamos National research Laboratory in New Mexico.

12/8/2006

Professor Y. Charles Cao has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution.

Cao’s CAREER project, “Position-Controlled Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” is funded at about $500,000 for five years from the Solid-State and Materials Chemistry Program of NSF. The CAREER project will develop a general approach for making high-quality semiconductor nanocrystals doped with position-controlled impurities. These nanocrystals are a new class of doping-based nanostructures, which are important to the development of technological applications in biomedical diagnosis, photocatalysts, solar cells, LEDs, spintronic devices, etc.

Cao joined the University of Florida faculty in August, 2003.