TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Diversity Award

• Call for Outputs/Acheivements

• Coming Events

• Annual Retreat

• Top 10 Paper

• New Member: Anne Runge

• SAB Meeting

• Signature Course

• Goodbye: Dana Riley Black

• Norfolk State Collaboration

• Discovery Corps Fellowhip

• Minority Expo

• Recruiting REU Students

• Recent Publications

Recent Publications:

Yi Liao, Bruce E. Eichinger, Kimberly A. Firestone, Marnie Haller, Jingdong Luo, Werner Kaminsky, Jason B. Benedict, Philip J. Reid, Alex K-Y Jen, Larry R. Dalton, Bruce H. Robinson, “Systematic Study of the Structure-Property Relationship of a Series of Ferrocenyl Nonlinear Optical Chromophores”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 2758-66 (2005)

Zhang, Hong Xi; Lu, Dong; Peyghambarian, Nasser; Fallahi, Mahmoud; Luo, Jing Dong; Chen, Bao Quan; Jen, Alex K.-Y.. Electro-optic properties of hybrid solgel doped with a nonlinear chromophore with large hyperpolarizability. Optics Letters (2005)

Cho, Jian-Yang; Domercq, Benoit; Li, Jennifer; South, Clinton R.; Timofeeva, Tatiana V.; Barlow, Stephen; Kippelen, Bernard; Marder, Seth R. Synthesis and characterization of polymerizable phosphorescent metal complexes for solution-processable organic light-emitting diodes. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005 (2005)

Flora, Ware H.; Mendes, Sergio B.; Doherty, Walter J., III; Saavedra, S. Scott; Armstrong, Neal R.. Determination of Molecular Anisotropy in Thin Films of Discotic Assemblies Using Attenuated Total Reflectance UV-Visible Spectroscopy. Langmuir (2005)

Kulkarni, Abhishek P.; Zhu, Yan; Jenekhe, Samson A., Quinoxaline-Containing Polyfluorenes: Synthesis, Photophysics, and Stable Blue Electroluminescence. Macromolecules (2005)