2021
- New NSF Instrumentation Award for in-operando and postmortem scanning electron microscopy! (link)
- Congratulations to Prof. Kalra for being promoted to Professor – Thanks to her past and present group for all the wonderful work (link)!
- Rahul Pai starts internship at Tesla. Congratulations Rahul!
- Congratulations to Dr. Ayda Rafie for successfully defending her thesis!
- An in-person group outing finally!
- Congratulations to Dr. Rahul Pai for successfully defending his thesis!
- Rahul Pai receives the CBE Outstanding Graduate Student award and nominated for AICHE-DVS Academic award for his thesis research. Nice work! Congratulations Rahul!
- Ayda Rafie starts internship in Batteries at Arkema. Congratulations Ayda!
- Kalra lab’s industry sponsored research grant renewed for another year! Great work everyone!
- Professor Kalra receives the COE Outstanding Innovation award
- Dr. Arvinder Singh (former postdoc in Kalra lab) and Dr. Vibha Kalra issued patent.
2020
- Professor Kalra receives the Provost Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Research.
- Welcome new PhD student, Taber Yim! And welcome new Postdocs Dr. Krishna Sarode & Postdoc Dr. JinWon Kim!
- College of Engineering Faculty. Wicked Good.
2019
- Prof. Kalra receives major sponsored research grant from industry for next-generation battery development followed by licensing agreements with same company.
- Welcome new PhD students Neal Cardoza & Rhyz Pereira
- Prof. Kalra receives NSF GOALI grant on 3D printing
- Prof. Kalra receives NSF PFI grant on Next generation Batteries
2018
- Kalra research on lithium-sulfur batteries featured on several tech news sites (Ref 1, Ref 2, Ref 3, Ref 4, Ref 5)
- Prof. Ying Sun and Prof. Vibha Kalra receive NSF grant to research the effects of electrode microstructure and Li2O2 growth on Li-air battery performance (link).
2017
- Silas Simotwo starts his job at Intel. Congratulations Silas!
- Caitlin Dillard starts her job at Boeing. Congratulations Caitlin!
- Dr. Kalra receives Drexel Ventures Innovation Fund for development of Lithium-sulfur batteries
- Richa Singhal, PhD graduate from Kalra lab (2016) starts as an assistant professor in BITS PIlani, Goa, India. Congratulations Richa!
- Rahul Pai Receives the 2017 CBE Outstanding Master’s Student Achievement Award
- Research from Kalra Lab Featured on Several Tech News Sites
- Spinning a Safer Electrode – Drexel Researchers Make a Carbon Nanofiber Supercapacitor (Without The Flammable Ingredients)
- Silas Simotwo and Caitlin Dillard Receive 2016 CBE Awards
2016
- Silas Simotwo Awarded William A. Casey Memorial Scholarship
- Caitlin Dillard Wins 1st Place for the ECS Open Access Week Competition
- Prof. Kalra Interviewed on NPR’s Tech Show
- Prof. Kalra Edits Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Energy Storage and Conversion”
- Kalra Lab in the News
- Q+A with Prof. Kalra on Samsung’s Battery Recall
- Publication by Daniel Lawrence and Prof. Kalra featured in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Caitlin Dillard Receives 2016 ECS Student Travel Award
- Richa Singhal Awarded William A. Casey Memorial Scholarship
2015
- Dr. Kalra Receives NSF Award To Study Conjugated Block Copolymers
- Drs. Kalra And Lau Receive NSF Grant To Study Electrodes For Supercapacitors
- Richa Singhal Receives 2015 ECS Student Travel Award
- Prof. Kalra Receives the AICHE DVS Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award
- Prof. Kalra received the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Research Award for Assistant Professor
2014
- Prof. Kalra Receives 2014 CBE Outstanding Research Award
- Dr. Chau Tran joins Oak Ridge National Lab as Post doctoral Associate
- Chau Tran defended his Ph.D thesis entitled ” Fabrication of Porous Carbon Nanofibers with Adjustable Pore Sizes and Their Composites as Electrodes for Supercapacitors”
- Chau Tran Awarded Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award at Drexel Commencement
- Richa Singhal Awarded George Hill, Jr. Endowed Fellowship
- Caitlin Dillard Awarded Koerner Family Fellowship
- Chau Tran Awarded William A. Casey Memorial Scholarship
2013
- Prof. Kalra accepts Associate Editor position in Chemical Engineering Science journal
- Prof. Kalra Awarded ONR Summer Faculty Fellowship
- Caitlin Dillard Awarded Koerner Family Fellowship
- Kalra Lab Publishes on Supercapacitors
- New Publication: Congratulations Chau Once Again!!
- New Publication: Congratulations Chau!!
2012
- Dr. Kalra Awarded NSF CAREER Award
- Alda Kapllani Starts her Second Research Co-op in Kalra Lab
- Nataliia Mozhzhukhina Successfully Defends her MS Thesis
- STAR Students from Kalra Lab Present Research Posters
- Dr. Kalra Receives NSF Funding on Lithium-Air Batteries
- Prof. Kalra Organizes Energy for Sustainability Symposium
- Kalra and Coworkers Publish in Soft Matter
- Dr. Vibha Kalra Awarded PA NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Grant
- Alda Kapllani to Join Kalra Lab as an Undergraduate Co-op Student in Fall 2011
2011
- Prof. Kalra Receives NSF Funding
- Alice HU, a Freshman CBE student Joins Kalra Lab as a STAR Scholar
- Prof. Kalra Receives Faculty Career Development Award