Tashi
Hatchell, a bachelor of science in chemistry – pre-health major in Fayetteville
State University’s (FSU) Department of Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science,
recently received a prestigious Student Poster Award based in competition at
the Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2020 Virtual Conference. She was
among nine awardees in the Physical Sciences category, out of over 290 posters internationally
in the division.
The awarded work,
“Morphological and Compositional Characterization of Electrochemically Active
Perovskite Oxides for Sensing Biological Molecules”, was a collaboration between
Hatchell and Kasci D. Pelucarte, also a bachelor of science in chemistry – pre-health
major, and advised by Drs. Shubo Han, Gibin George, and Zhiping Luo. This
research was conducted using the FSU’s state-of-the-art field-emission electron
microprobe instrument equipped with a cathodoluminescence detector, funded by the
Department of Defense Army Research Office (DoD-ARO) and National Science
Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (NSF-MRI) grants.
Hatchell and
Pelucarte are NSF Excellence in Research (EIR)-funded Scholars in the
Interdisciplinary Materials Research and Education Laboratory (IMREL) at FSU. Additionally, they are both veterans. Before joining FSU, Hatchell served in the United
States Air Force for 10 years, and Pelucarte served in the United States Army
for 12 years.
“This
is a breakthrough for an FSU student to receive this award”, says Dr. Zhiping
Luo, the Director of IMREL. “Prior to coming to FSU, I trained several students
at Texas A&M University who received this highly competitive award at
M&M. This is the first time for an FSU student to be recognized there, and
it signifies that we can compete with other major research universities
internationally.”
Click
here to view the list of winners: (https://www.microscopy.org/awards/onsiteawards.cfm).
About
Fayetteville State University
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Fayetteville State
University is a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina
System and the second-oldest institution of higher education in the state,
having been founded in 1867. FSU is a historically black university offering
degrees at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. With more than
6,700 students, Fayetteville State University is among the most diverse
institutions in the nation. To learn more about Fayetteville State University,
visit www.uncfsu.edu.