Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year:

• Peter Breiding, "Testing the IC/CMB model of extended X-ray emission for large scale quasar jets with the Fermi/LAT"
  Mentor: Dr. Meyer

• Richard Brewster, "Amplification of entanglement"
  Mentor: Dr. Franson

• Haixu Leng, "Discrete metal-semiconductor nanoparticle assemblies for controlled plasmon-exciton coupling"
  Mentor: Dr. Pelton

• Lipi Mukherjee, "Radiative properties of oceanic particles"
  Mentor: Dr. Zhai

Peter, Ricky, Haixu, and Lipi were honored at the Graduate School's Annual PhD Candidates Ceremony on November 10, 2016.