April 2024: Brody wins 2nd place at the Mines-wide Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium (GRADS)! Brandon publishes the group's first paper in collaboration with the Packard lab at Mines!

January 2024: Lauren Cisneros has a great month: she joins the group, crushes her qualifying exam, and wins an NSF Quantum Engineering NRT Fellowship!

November 2023: Brandon and Sara did an outstanding job on their PhD Thesis Proposal exams and are now officially PhD candidates!

October 2023: Matthew is incredibly honored to be selected as 35 under 35 in Chemical & Materials by AIChE!

August 2023: Brody joins the group to figure out how ion transport and phase transitions in metal-halide perovskite thin films can yield efficient computing devices.

March 2023: Brandon wins a NSF Quantum Engineering NRT Fellowship - so interdisciplinary!

January 2023: Jessica decimates her qualifying exam and joins the Crane Lab!

December 2022: We can pay the bills! NSF CMMI funds the group to develop new technologies to integrate colloidal nanomaterials into devices for quantum applications.

August 2022: Cade joins the group to figure out how light can influence nanomaterial growth. More importantly, Cade and Maggie both win MURF fellowships!

April 2022: Lauren and Maggie join the group with visions of heat transfer and CO2 reduction in their eyes.

February 2022: The group sets up shop at the national renewable energy lab!

January 2022: Brandon and Sara crushed their qualifying exams and join the Crane Lab!

January 2022: The Crane Lab has arrived in Colorado!