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February 22, 2021

Welcome Fontaine!

Fontaine McFeaters joins Shared Research Support Services as our new NMR assistant!  Fontaine received her BS in Chemistry from Gettysburg College in 2019 and comes to us from contract work as an Analytical Chemist at PPG.  In the Chemistry Instrumentation Center and beyond, Fontaine will be responsible for NMR maintenance and the training of our vast NMR user base.  Welcome Fontaine!

February 8, 2021

Welcome Jeremy Biroscak to the DSS Stockroom!

Mr. Jeremy Biroscak will be joining the stockroom team Tuesday, August 7, 2018, as a stores specialist. Please join us in welcoming him to Pitt's Shared Research Support Services (SRSS) and Dietrich School Scientific (DSS) Stockroom teams!

February 1, 2021

Welcome Dr. Sergei Sheludiakov

Dr. Sergei Sheludiakov has join Shared Research Support Services and the Department of Physics as our new Director of Cryogenics.  Sergei will oversee our helium recovery program and coordinate with our condensed matter physics researchers to design and maintain our fleet of cryostats and dilution refrigerators and work to bring new technologies and techniques to their research.  Dr. Sheludiakov comes to us from the Lee and Khmelenko labs at Texas A&M and obtained his PhD at the University of Turku in Finland with Dr. Sergey Vasiliev.  Welcome aboard Sergei!

February 1, 2021

Mike Barrett Retires

Mike Barrett

Please help us in thanking Mike Barrett for his many years of service with University.  Mike's leadership was essential across many initiatives in the last few years.   He was instrumental helping to create the conditions for success in the stockroom consolidation ten years ago.  More recently Mik