Group News
January 2025: Congratulations to Taohed for your JACS paper!
January 2025: Let's welcome Ahmed, our new graduate student, to our group
December 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Islam for securing the NSF Early Career Award. Thanks to NSF DMR SSMC for this Award.
October 2024: Congratulations to Robiul, Taohed, and Rodger for the award at the JSU Clean Energy Symposium.
October 2024: Our group organized the Clean Energy Symposium at Jackson State University. Thanks to all the attendees and the HBCU Clean Energy Partners for attending the symposium.
September 2024: Congratulations to Dr Islam (PI) and the JSU Team for securing the US Department of Defense Equipment grant.
September 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Islam and the JSU Team for clinching $400,000 for the DOE HBCU Clean Energy Prize Phase - II award. Watch the video for details on this award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJlHzoxJyQ
August 2024: Let's welcome our undergrad Russell Rodger to our group.
July 2024: Let's Congratulate Dr. Jing Nie, the third PhD from Dr Islam's group, for successfully defending her PhD thesis.
July 2024: Let's Congratulate the CEI Team and Dr. Islam for the publication in Nature Energy (perspective) paper on Lithium-ion batteries.
July 2024: Let's congratulate all the poster awardees: Tasmyah Rashid and Suri Clark (k12 students), Bridgewater (undergraduate), and Taohedul Islam (graduate student) at the JSU-UCSB PREM Conference, 2024
May 2024: Let's welcome our k12 students, Tasmyah Rashid, Suri Clark, and Tanisha Islam; and our Prof. Bhanu Nellore (MVST) and her undergraduate student Bridgewater for the summer internship in clean energy and environment research.
May 2024: Let's celebrate the month of May. Our group published three papers in May: Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials and Dalton Transaction. Congratulations to Robiul, Dr. Roy and Dr. Rohit for your great contributions. Thanks all the group members and the collaborators.
April 2024: Dr. Islam received the Jackson State University Rising Star Award in 2024 for his outstanding contribution to clean energy and environmental research.
March 2024: Taohed's paper is accepted to ChemSusChem!! Great Job!! Let's congratulate Taohed!
March 2024: Dr. Weret, Dr. Islam, Taohed, Peighton presented in ACS Spring 2024 on lithium ion battery research.
March 2024: Wow!! Robiul has received the very prestigious R. G. Foundation Award at WMS conference in Phoenix AZ. Congratulations to Robiul.
March 2024: Congratulations to Jing for publishing your paper in Small. Good job!
February 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Islam and his team for winning the DOE HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize, a $100,000 cash reward!
February 2024:Let's welcome our undergrad Hayleigh Breland - we are excited to have you!
November 2023: Congratulations to Alicia for publishing your paper in the Chemistry of Materials. Good job!
November 2023: Congratulations to Taohed for publishing your paper in the ACS Energy Letters. Your hard work is paid off.
October 2023: Congratulations to Zunayed for winning the 1st prize in poster presentation in JSU research engagement week!
September 2023: Let's welcome Dr. Rohit to start his postdoctoral journey with our group - we are excited to have you!
August 2023: Let's welcome Zunayed and Shital for starting their graduate studies with our group - we are excited to have you!
August 2023: Let's welcome our undergrads, Erykah and Deja - we are excited to have you!
July 2023: Dr. Islam gave a presentation on high energy density chalcogenide-based electrodes for Li- and Na-ion batteries at DOE-PI Meeting
July 2023: Let's Congratulate Robiul for winning the championship of the poster competition at the JSU-ECSB Materials Science Conference
June 2023: Dr. Islam gave a presentation on actinide aerogels at the Actiminde Chemistry Conference, Mines, Colorado
April 2023: Welcome Dr. Misganaw Weret, the new postdoc in our group. We are so happy to have you in the group.
March 2023: Dr. Islam and ORNL team received a DOE-VTO award of $1.5 million to develop oxide-based cathodes for Li-ion batteries; Congratulations to the TEAM.
March 2023: Congratulations to Alicia for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis.
February 2023: Congratulations to Jing for winning the prestigious poster award (runner-up) at the Waste Management Symposium 2023.
January 2023: Oluwaseun Ayomide (Oketola) joined our research group to pursue his graduate studies. Let's welcome him.
November 2022: Dr. Islam gave a research talk at the ACS Southwest Regional Meeting as an invited speaker in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
October 2022: Dr. Islam gave a research talk as an invited speaker at the Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
September 2022: Our recently funded DOE EPSCoR grant of $749,981.0 is in the News
September 2022: Welcome Brooklyn, Ariel, and Airin, we are so happy having you in the group.
August 2022: Alicia, Taohed and Dr. Islam presented at the MSIPP conference in South Carolina.
July 2022: Taohed Attended the Synchrotron X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Workshop at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
July 2022: Dr. Islam presented on ion-exchangeable chalcogels at Gordon Conference on Solid-state Chemistry.
July 2022: Our research project is funded by DOE-Environmental Management through SRNL's MSIPP program.
June 2022: Congratulations Ahmet for the successful Ph.D. defense; Ahmet defended as the first Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Islam.
May 2022: Funded :) Dr. Islam was funded by the DOE-Environmental management program for the nuclear waste treatment.
April 2022: Happiness returned to the lab - our new DTG was installed and ready for use.
March 2022: Alicia and Dr. Islam presented the research on nuclear waste treatment at the Waste Management Symposium 2022, Phoenix, Arizona.
February 2022: Congratulation to Alicia for the prestigious Roy G. Foundation award.
Jan 2022: Let's welcome MD Taohedul Islam (Taohed) to start his graduate study in our group.
November 2021: Let's welcome Dr. Roy to join our group as a postdoc; we are happy to have you.
August 2021: Let's welcome Robiul to join our group; we wish you all the best for your graduate study.
August 2021: Let's welcome James Daniels to join our group; we wish you all the best for your graduate study.
August 2021: Let's welcome Sydney and Hana - the undergrads who joined our group; we are happy for you.
June 2021: Our group was awarded ~ $460,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation.
May 2021: Our group has received ~ $320,000 research grant from the US Department of Energy's Environment Management Program.
March 2021: Dr. Islam served as the chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the Mississippi Academy of Science.
March 2021: Dr. Islam arranged a career workshop for the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering students at the Mississippi Academy of Science Conference.
March 2021: Ahmet Celik received the first prize for the poster presentation at the Mississippi Academy of Science Conference.