{"id":8,"date":"2011-05-30T19:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/poler-research\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:42:22","slug":"group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/poler-research\/group\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PRG Summer 2025 – Group Lunch (Rolando Perla, Jiaqi Dong, Jay Coleman, Jordan Poler, Adrian Rodriguez, Rishika Gade, Maren Clark, Anna Pham (Raghav Dosi absent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRG Summer 2023 – Tour of the Lee Dukes Water Treatment Plant – Blue Planet\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

PRG Fall 2018 – Great people make great research…<\/p>\n

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L2R: Matt Bonfield, Kayla Durkin, Bill Hixson, Abhispa Sahu, Nick Johnson, Jordan Poler, Nick Zelenka, Rabia Sheikh<\/p><\/div>\n

Good luck to the PRG Graduates Fall 2016: Tim Eldred BS Chemistry, Chauncey McNeil BA Chemistry, and Eugene Watson BS Biology. \u00a0Set goals high, keep Pounding!<\/p>\n

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XY: Eugene Watson, Tyler Keear, Chauncey X. McNeill, JCP, Justin Zuczek, Tim Eldred, Nick Zelenka
XX: Abhispa Saha, Adriana Jerez, Megan Woody, Nesreen Elathram, Rabia Sheikh, and Lauren Irvin<\/p><\/div>\n

Good luck to the PRG graduates May 2016: Billy Johnson, MS in Chemistry, James Mitchel and Emily Schmidt, BS in Chemistry.\u00a0 I’m going to miss you guys!<\/p>\n

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PRG Spring 2016: fr: Adriana Jerez, Nesreen Elathram, Meagan Woody
br: JCP, Chauncey McNeil, Emily Schmidt, Billy Ray Johnson, Tim Eldred, James Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n

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PRG Spring 2015 (L2R) Billy Johnson, Chauncey McNeil, David Banks, Emily Schmidt, James Mitchell, Tim Eldred, and Dr.SciEnCee1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poler Research Group Fall 2014 Billy Johnson, Rachel Furst, JCP, Becky Baik, David Banks, and James Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n

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Poler Research Group April 2013 (Andy Nguyen, Mohamed Saeed, Maurice Hord, Dylan Brokaw,Anjail Ameen, Jordan Poler, Albert Leon, and Omar Glover)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jordan Poler<\/strong> is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Brockport double majoring in Physics and Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and received the President’s Citation, SUNY Brockport\u2019s highest academic award. He earned his Doctorate in Physical Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while studying materials and surface science. His dissertation is titled \u201cQuantum Oscillations and Electron Interactions in Ultra Thin Insulating Films: A Study of the Si\/SiO2 Interface\u201d. At Carolina he held the Semiconducting Research Corporation (SRC) Fellowship. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Princeton University while holding a National Institutes of Health Fellowship.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poler Research Group April 2011<\/span>
(Jordan Poler, Shawn Ridlen, Mike Forney, Anjail Ameen, Josh Anderson (mascot), Gaurav Singh (rotation), Jeff Alston)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Jeff Alston<\/strong> is currently a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory. \u00a0His previous appointment was as a Senior Materials Researcher at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Headquarters in Akron Ohio. \u00a0He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of La Verne, in southern California after several years at Cal Poly Pomona where he dabbled in Civil Engineering. \u00a0His dissertation topic is \u201cPhotoelectrochemical and Physical Interactions of Ruthenium Coordination Complexes and SWCNTs\u201d. \u00a0His work with hybrid nanocomposite materials of SWCNTs and Ru complexes for energy generation and catalysis was awarded theNASA sponsored North Carolina Space Grant in 2010. \u00a0Jeff has the distinction of being a member of the first class of Nanoscale Science Ph.D. students joining UNC Charlotte in 2007.\u00a0 He successfully defended his dissertation in Fall 2011.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mike Forney<\/strong> is currently a research Staff member at Aerospace Corporation after completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Rochester Institute of Technology.\u00a0 His dissertation topic is “Carbon nanotube growth, dispersion, and use in nanoelectromechanical actuators”.\u00a0 He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, with minors in Mathematics and Computer Science.\u00a0 He graduated Magna Cum Laude<\/em> and with Departmental Honors.\u00a0 He was also awarded several academic scholarships and research fellowships.\u00a0 Mike received an honorable mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.\u00a0 Mike has the distinction of being a member of the first class of Nanoscale Science Ph.D. students joining UNC Charlotte in 2007. \u00a0He successfully defended his dissertation summer 2011.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shawn Ridlen<\/strong> is currently a P.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington.\u00a0 Shawn received his BS in Chemistry from the University of West Georgia in the spring of 2010 where he was awarded the Hope scholarship through all four years of study. \u00a0While at UWG, Shawn worked under the guidance of Dr. Megumi Fujita on an undergraduate thesis entitled: Synthesis of a Preorganized Dinucleating Ligand: An indolo[2,3-a]carbazole Derivative<\/em>.\u00a0 Shawn successfully defended his MS thesis “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Multi-nuclear Charged Ruthenium Complexes<\/em>” summer 2012.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poler Research Group July 2009<\/span>
(Andrea Giordano, Sean Brooks, Mike Forney, Stuart Rosse, Jordan Poler, Jeff Alston, Natalie Herring, Ruba Kachlan, Carmen Kuan)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Natalie Herring<\/strong> has successfully defended her\u00a0 Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) working under the direction of Samy El-Shall developing novel nanocrystals and nanocomposites for catalysts.\u00a0 Natalie received her B.S. from the College of William and Mary majoring in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics.\u00a0 She earned her Master\u2019s of Science<\/a> in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2009.\u00a0 Her thesis \u201cAggregation of Colloidal Nanoparticles\u201d won the UNCC 2011 Graduate Dean\u2019s Outstanding Master\u2019s Thesis Award and subsequently went on to win the 2011 Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering Master\u2019s Thesis Award.\u00a0 She is supported at VCU through her Altria Summer Fellowship and the Lidia M. Vallarion Scholarship.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Harsh Chaturvedi<\/strong> is currently in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune<\/a>.\u00a0 He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Visveswaraiah Technological University, in Bangalore India. \u00a0He earned his Doctorate in Optical Science and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u00a0 His dissertation research was on \u201cPhoton Induced Effects in Molecular Assemblies of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes\u201d. \u00a0He was recently honored with the Ramanujan Fellowship by Deptartment of Science and Technology (DST, India) in 2010.\u00a0 His current area of research focuses on studying electro-optical as well as intermolecular interactions in nano-materials and applying novel effects for fabricating optical and biological sensors.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poler Research Group September 2008<\/span>
(Twann Corry, Brittany Chase, Jeff Alston, Sean Brooks, Fe’Lix Kimes (mascot), Mike Forney, Natalie Herring, Caroline Kennedy (mascot), Jordan Poler<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shiho Kobayashi<\/strong> is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah.\u00a0 She is originally from Yokohama-city, Japan. \u00a0Shiho received her B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York at New Paltz.\u00a0 She earned he Master\u2019s of Science<\/a> from UNC Charlotte in 2008 her thesis is titled \u201cSynthesis and Characterization of Rigid Supramolecular Coagulants: Modifications of Morphology and Charge State\u201d.\u00a0 At Utah she is working under the tutelage of Professor Peter Stang and working on coordination driven self-assembly.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Andrea Giordano <\/strong>is currently on the faculty of Chemistry at\u00a0St. John Fisher College after receiving her Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at Penn State University.\u00a0 She received her B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u00a0 She left her horses to join Paul Weiss\u2019 lab at Penn State where she earned her Master\u2019s of Science in Chemistry studying artificial assembly of precise functional nanostructures.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thomas Younts<\/strong> is currently working towards his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Pablo E. Castillo in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. \u00a0He received his B.S. in Psychology and Biology from UNC Charlotte in 2007.\u00a0 Tommy also worked in the PRG and was first author on a paper and co-author on another.\u00a0 He defended his Honors thesis in both Biology and Chemistry while studying \u201cRuthenium Coordination Chemistry: Implications for Carbon Nanotubes\u201d.\u00a0 Tommy received an honorable mention for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He hopes to maintain an academic career in the neurosciences through research and teaching.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poler Research Group April 2008
(Kristina Kesel, Shiho Kobayashi, Jay Shah, Jordan Poler, Harsh Chatervedi, Andrea Giordano, Natalie Herring, Katie Crain)<\/p>\n

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Ryan Phillips, Jordan Poler, Joseph Springs<\/p><\/div>\n


Ryan Phillips<\/strong> is currently a Research Technician II, at Orthopaedic Biology Research Laboratory, Carolina\u2019s Medical Center and an Administrative Intern at the Carolina Simulation Center, Carolina\u2019s Medical Center.\u00a0 He received his B.S. in Business Administration, Finance from UNC Charlotte while he did research in the PRG.\u00a0 Ryan will be heading off to East Carolina Medical School in Fall of 2011.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Poler Research Group April 2007<\/span>
(Jordan Poler, Andrea Giordano, Harsh Chaturvedi, Laura Roberts, Stuart Rosse, Sarah Subaran, Jay Shah, Shiho Kobayashi, Ryan Philips, Thomas Younts)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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