April 28, 2025
Congratulations to Rong and Jihpeng on the publication of their work as an editor’s choice paper and featured as the front cover on ACS Chem & Bio Engineering!
April 24, 2025
Happy birthday Jongbin!
April 22, 2025
Here is to another great semester of Particles and Particle Systems.
April 18, 2025
We are so very proud of all the accomplishments of our NSF COMPASS Veteran Innovation Fellow Jebril Thaxton!
April 06, 2025
Another surprise birthday cake from Team LEGOS to celebrate another amazing year. Thank you!
April 01, 2025
Prof. Steven Chu visited UM MechE. It has been almost three years since his last visit!
March 31, 2025
Congratulations to our undergraduate veteran innovation fellow Jebril Thaxton for winning the prestigious Optica Foundation Amplify Scholarship! We are so proud of you!
March 14, 2025
LEGOS Spring Social at BIG Best In Games, on Pi Day! Thank you Emily for organizing such an amazing event and for editing the great video!
February 26, 2025
Happy Birthday Emily!
February 19, 2025
Engineeringness reports on Matthew’s paper on Time Aware Particulate Sensors (TAPS). Congratulations Matthew!
February 03, 2025
Matthew’s paper on Time Aware Particulate Sensors (TAPS) is featured on UM News. Congratulations Matthew!
January 27, 2025
ATL and Sungwan present at the Gordon Research Conference – Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems in Ventura, CA.
January 24, 2025
LEGOS receives CRLT Faculty Development Fund to integrate VR into core curriculum.
December 18, 2024
LEGOS student veteran Jebril Thaxton at the African Materials Research Society in Rwanda.
December 17, 2024
LEGOS annual holiday party. Congratulations to Emily on winning the third LEGOS Winter Olympics!
December 09, 2024
Congratulations to Matthew on the publication of his computational study on the AIChE Journal!
December 05, 2024
Team LEGOS at the NSF COMPASS Summit. Congratulations to Riley on his successful VR for ChemE presentation and Rong, Jihpeng, and Sungwan for winning the Junior Scientists Project Awards!
December 01, 2024
Another year of great ChE 342 project presentations. We are learning so much mass and heat transfer knowledge from you all!
October 28, 2024
Team LEGOS at AIChE, San Diego, CA. Congratulations to Emily for winning the Graduate Student Poster Award! We are so proud of you.
October 16, 2024
LEGOS 2024 Fall Hike at Pinckney.
Welcome to the team, Nyvia and Zoe!
October 15, 2024
Happy Birthday Sungwan!
October 06, 2024
Happy Birthday Matthew!
October 04, 2024
UM ChemE Car Internal Competition
October 03, 2024
Chemical Engineering Department Photo Shoot
September 17, 2024
Team LEGOS presents at the 2024 Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium. Congratulations to Matthew on winning the top prize in the Best Poster Award category!
August 23, 2024
Happy Birthday Jihpeng!
August 22, 2024
Congratulations to Sungwan and Rong on two great talks at the ACS Fall 2024 Meeting in Denver!
July 12, 2024
Riley and Thy won the 2024 LEGOS Summer Olympics. Congratulations!
May 30, 2024
Team LEGOS presents at the 2024 MMRI Annual Summit.
May 17, 2024
Congratulations to Jihpeng and Jongbin on their successful first year at Michigan!
May 10, 2024
LEGOS participates in the Veteran Innovation Fellowship program in COMPASS and is proud to be working with US Navy veteran Jebril Thaxton.
April 24, 2024
Happy Birthday Jongbin!
April 24, 2024
LEGOS undergraduate researchers Aaron, Jebril and Mohammed won the Blue Ribbon Awards at the Annual UROP Symposium. We are so proud of you!
April 08, 2024
Jihpeng volunteered in the FEMMES Capstone activity to promote scientific literacy through hands-on experiments.
March 26, 2024
Team LEGOS is excited to start a Michigan Materials Research Institute funded collaborative project to electrify the CO2-to-methanol conversion process.
March 09, 2024
LEGOS 2024 Bowling Party.
March 08, 2024
ATL visited the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the North Carolina State University.
February 26, 2024
Happy Birthday Emily!
February 16, 2024
Team LEGOS is excited to receive support from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for their work on particle-based reconfigurable materials.
October 28, 2023
LEGOS 2023 Fall Hike.
Welcome to the team, Jongbin and Jihpeng!
October 15, 2023
Happy Birthday Sungwan!
October 06, 2023
Happy Birthday Matthew!
September 21, 2023
Matthew co-chaired the ChE Graduate Research Symposium where Team LEGOS presented their recent findings.
September 18, 2023
Team LEGOS is excited to start a UM Bold Challenge team project to advance battery-less sensing for sustainable living and civil infrastructures.
September 14, 2023
Team LEGOS is excited to be part of the UM-led $30M NSF Science & Technology Center: the Center for Complex Particle Systems (COMPASS).
September 8, 2023
A short documentary on Prof. Steven Chu – “The wonder of discovering what the world is about, you know, this is as good as it gets!”
August 13, 2023
LEGOS participated in the Discover Engineering Program to help galvanize local high school students’ interests in science and engineering.
August 1, 2023
Matthew won the 2023 LEGOS Summer Olympics. Congratulations!
July 30, 2023
LEGOS hosted Landon Gates through the Intel Semiconductor REU program and high school student Fiona Nikolla this summer. We had such a great time working with you!
July 27, 2023
Come join us on the Thursday Ultimate Frisbee! Let’s make this a summer tradition.
July 21, 2023
Rachel Huang from Zhenan Bao‘s group at Stanford visited LEGOS and gave a great seminar on her PhD work.
July 10, 2023
ATL spoke at the ICAM Complex Mechanical Metamaterials Workshop.
May 30, 2023
ATL had conversation with President Santa Ono during a fireside chat hosted by the UM ADVANCE program.
May 19, 2023
Matthew, Sungwan, and Emily at Lake Huron celebrating their successful Doctoral Candidacy Exam. Congratulations!
April 19, 2023
Andrew and Alex presented their work at the UROP Spring Research Symposium. Andrew won the Blue Ribbon award. Congratulations!
April 11, 2023
Team LEGOS attended the annual Katz Lecture by Prof. Enrique Iglesia from UC Berkeley.
April 5, 2023
ATL attended the UM Engineering faculty dinner dance.
March 29, 2023
Emily won the NSF GRFP to support her work in the Lesher-Pérez group. Congratulations!
March 15, 2023
ATL gave department seminar at the Department of Chemistry of Oakland University.
March 29, 2023
LEGOS annual ski trip at the Mt. Brighton Resort.
February 3, 2023
ATL invited to speak at the Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC at Ventura, CA.
December 17, 2022
White elephant Christmas party with the Lesher-Pérez, Lindsey, and Min group.
December 13, 2022
Matthew volunteered in the FEMMES Capstone activity to promote scientific literacy for fourth through sixth grade students.
December 9, 2022
LEGOS annual holiday party. Congratulations to Matthew on winning the first LEGOS Winter Olympics!
November 17, 2022
ATL invited to give a seminar in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University during the 2022 AIChE at Phoenix, AZ.
October 31, 2022
ATL taught as a Gryffindor on the Halloween ChE342 lecture.
October 21, 2022
Welcome first year students Matthew, Sungwan, and Emily to join the LEGOS family!
September 10, 2022
Prof. Steven Chu visited LEGOS and had a great discussion with ChE students.
