Fun time with the Patton Lab at the end of year social and ugly Christmas sweater contest Southern Prohibition. Great job by our usmpolypmse student chapter leadership hosting the event!

Congrats Ben!

The USM POLY-PMSE chapter is hosting an Industry Night event on Wednesday, March 13th! Anyone is welcome to attend!

Happy to report that Cassandra Reese will be joining Los Alamos National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher! Can’t wait to read about the great science in store! Congrats Cassie! Patton Lab

Congrats to Reese Sloan on being awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Well done!! @NSFGRFP Patton Lab USM Polymer Science & Engineering Southern Miss Now

Michael Sandoz, an outstanding USM Polymer Science & Engineering undergraduate in the Patton Lab, was awarded a prestigious #Goldwater Scholarship! Congratulations Michael!

Brittany Thompson - an outstanding senior undergraduate in the Patton Lab - placed 2nd in oral presentations for her division at the USM Undergraduate Research Symposium! Congrats Brittany!

Congrats to Benjamin M. Alameda, Travis Palmer (Wiggins Group), and to our two undergraduate coauthors Jonathan Sisemore and U.S. National Science Foundation #REU Nicholas Pierini.

Cassandra Reese spent 2 months with Graeme Moad & CSIRO for an Australia-America PhD Internship in 2018 resulting in a collaborative paper! Check it out: "Selective and Rapid Light‐Induced RAFT SUMI in Aqueous Solution" bit.ly/36VNbyz

A synthetic polymer postdoctoral position is available in the Patton Lab in the School of Polymer Science and Engineering Southern Miss. Details and application are available at bit.ly/2R2NvEm. Please RT. ACS POLY Division ACS PMSE Division

Excited to see another manuscript from grad school is published in Macromolecules! Check out our recent work on Quantifying Strain in Wrinkled Polymer Brush Surfaces. Thank you Derek Patton Chris Stafford Wei Guo Britt Phillip Logan pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

First ChemRxiv preprint from the Patton Lab (kudos to William Walker). In this work, thiols and light are used to construct and destruct polymer thermosets on command! The photodegradation movie is mesmerizing (solid to liquid in seconds) - check it out!

Check out @DahliaAmato's work on printing porous materials with photopolymerization in collab with U of Twente's Claas Willem Visser! Thanks to Harvard University's Jennifer Lewis for hosting Dahlia's academic internship as part of the Southern Miss U.S. National Science Foundation-funded NRT. bit.ly/3h6Or5G

Will Walker's (William Walker) "Command-destruct thermosets" featured on the front cover of Polymer Chemistry! Thanks to Ella Marushchenko for the cover art! Patton Lab USM Polymer Science & Engineering rsc.li/36kCeXG.

Congrats Jaylen!

Postdoc position immediately available in the Patton Lab and Morgan Groups in the area of #synthesis & #processing of multifunctional/dynamic polymer nanocomposites. USM Polymer Science & Engineering #postdocjobs #sciencejobs Apply at bit.ly/3F8bJo7

Long overdue group photo Spring 2023

Huge congratulations to Surabhi Jha for successfully defending her independent research proposal in polymer science & engineering! Surabhi Jha is now officially a PhD candidate #WomenInSTEM #PhDcandidate #PolymerScience #Engineering Patton Lab

Humbled and honoured to receive this award. Deeply grateful for my mentors and colleagues. Thanks to my family and friends for all their support