BIG congrats to Mani Group alumni Neo Lin (Princeton) and Michael Vrionides (Northwestern) for winning NSF GRFP, and a current member, Lillian (Northwestern-bound), for receiving honorable mention!
Congrats to Ashly!
Congratulations to Ashly for being awarded an Outstanding Student Poster Award at the Spring 2026 National ACS Meeting!
She was also named as a 2026 Goldwater Scholar!
MolQ Day and CT Science Center Outreach
Fall Outreach from QuanXR! Featured in Chemistry News.
We have organized the second MolQ Day on November 15th! More than 50 high school students (selected out of >90 applications) attended the workshop!
We also participated in the CT Science Center STEM Career Showcase on December 5th! We did demo on QDs and Photon Upconversion with a Sant hat dinosaur and snakes! 
We also participated in the ECE teacher workshop in October. The event is highlighted in the ECE news.
Congrats to Dr. Miu Tsuji!
Miu successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! Big Congrats!
New Paper in JPC Letters
Our new paper is now on the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters!
Congrats to Graduates of the Class of 2025!
Congratulations to Neo, Michael, and Rilee on your graduation — best of luck as you begin your Ph.D. adventures!
Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Students Award
Tomo won the 2025 Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Students Award by CLAS!
Congrats to All Summer Fellowhships
Congratulations to Izzy for DOE SULI at BNL, Noen and Zihan for winning UConn SURF, and Lillian for winning Chemistry SURF!
QuanXR project featured in UConn Today
New Paper in Inorganic Chemistry
Our new paper, in collaboration with the groups of Prof. Esipova and Prof. Lee, is now online! Congrats Neo!