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Projects Spectroscopy Sustainability Past People Current Former Collaborators Publications Papers Proceedings Talks Posters Other Funding Awards Photos Links Contact Login Click the photo to learn more. News Ben McCall moving to Dayton! Submitted April 3, 2018 - 2:15 PM Ben is moving to the University of Dayton in August to serve as the inaugural Executive Director of the Hanley Sustainability Institute. [Read More] ISMS 2017! Submitted June 26, 2017 - 11:33 AM McCall Group Members Present at the Seventy-Second ISMS! [Read More] Dr. Adam Perry! Submitted November 2, 2016 - 9:58 AM Adam Perry has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! [Read More] Welcome Jeff McCollum! Submitted October 26, 2016 - 8:30 AM Jeff McCollum has officially joined our research group as a first-year graduate student! [Read More] Dubowsky wins Rao Prize! Submitted July 11, 2016 - 10:31 AM Scott Dubowsky received a Rao Prize at this year’s ISMS! [Read More] McCall Group at the 71st International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy Submitted June 10, 2016 - 4:47 PM Three members of the McCall research group will be giving presentations at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy in two weeks! [Read More] Courtney Talicska receives Master’s Degree! Submitted June 10, 2016 - 4:31 PM Courtney Talicska recently graduated from the McCall Group! [Read More] Nicole Koeppen receives Master’s Degree! Submitted May 23, 2016 - 9:33 AM Nicole Koeppen recently graduated from the McCall Group! [Read More] Dr. James Hodges! Submitted May 16, 2016 - 10:27 AM James Hodges has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! [Read More] Dr. Bradley Gibson! Submitted November 18, 2015 - 11:19 AM Brad Gibson has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! [Read More] Dr. Mike Porambo! Submitted July 7, 2015 - 2:41 PM Mike Porambo has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! [Read More] Dr. Haochen Ke! Submitted July 7, 2015 - 2:35 PM Haochen Ke has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis! [Read More] McCall Group at the 70th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy Submitted June 1, 2015 - 2:42 PM Eight members of the McCall research group will be giving presentations at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. [Read More] QCL Publication! Submitted June 1, 2015 - 1:17 PM Brad Gibson recently published a paper in Optics Letters ! [Read More] Graduation! Submitted June 1, 2015 - 1:07 PM Peter Kiamanesh and Paul Jenkins have completed their undergraduate studies! [Read More] Jacob Stewart accepts position at Connecticut College! Submitted April 15, 2015 - 9:08 AM Congratulations to Jacob Stewart who has accepted a faculty position at Connecticut College in New London, CT. Zhangji Zhao begins graduate school! Submitted January 19, 2015 - 3:56 PM Zhangji Zhao is now a graduate student at Lehigh University . [Read More] Ball Plasma Publication! Submitted December 18, 2014 - 3:17 PM Scott Dubowsky has published a paper in the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. [Read More] McCall Group at the 69th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy Submitted May 19, 2014 - 4:43 PM Six members of the McCall group will be presenting talks at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy [Read More] Congratulations to Susanna Widicus Weaver Submitted May 19, 2014 - 11:25 AM Susanna has been awarded a tenured faculty position at Emory University . We wish her continued success with her research . Kyle Crabtree Accepts Position at UC Davis! Submitted May 19, 2014 - 11:23 AM Congratulations to Kyle Crabtree who has accepted a position as an assitant professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of California-Davis in Davis, CA. David Friday Receives a Masters Degree Submitted March 19, 2014 - 11:14 AM David Friday has completed his work in the McCall group, earning a Masters degree. We wish him all the best as he returns to the Air Force. Four New Graduate Students Submitted November 19, 2013 - 11:26 AM This fall, Courtney Talicska and Nicole Koeppen from physical chemistry, and Charles Markus and Scott Dubowsky from analytical chemistry joined the McCall Lab. We look forward to their contributions to the group! Plasma Balls in the News! Submitted August 19, 2013 - 11:18 AM David Friday’s work on plasma balls has been featured by the BBC. McCall named Alumni Research Scholar Submitted May 14, 2013 - 11:05 AM The Department of Chemistry recently named Ben McCall an Alumni Research Scholar. [Read More] Jessica Pearson Awarded NSF Fellowship Submitted April 8, 2013 - 4:08 PM Congratulations to Jessica Pearson for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which will support her work for 3 years! Dr. Brian Siller Submitted February 27, 2013 - 3:14 PM Brian Siller recently defended his PhD thesis! He has accepted a Research Scientist position at Tiger Optics , a company that specializes in making continuous wave cavity ringdown spectrometers for quantitative trace gas detection. He will be working both on improving the performance of their current instruments and early-stage development of some completely new ones. McCall named Chair of ISMS! Submitted February 27, 2013 - 11:59 AM Ben McCall was recently named Chair of the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy. Additionally, after 68 years of being hosted at Ohio State University, the Symposium will be moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jacob Stewart accepts postdoc at Emory Submitted February 21, 2013 - 2:23 PM Jacob Stewart has accepted a postdoctoral position at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He will help with teaching the undergraduate physical chemistry lab classes there and performing research with Michael Heaven , starting in July. Congratulations, Jacob! McCall elected APS Fellow Submitted November 15, 2012 - 11:37 AM Ben McCall has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. For more details, see this news story . Sub-Doppler Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Ions Submitted October 23, 2012 - 11:06 AM As just reported in a cover article in Chemical Physics Letters , the McCall group has now implemented the first versatile technique for high-precision spectroscopy of molecular ions in the mid-infrared. This exciting result will have many applications in supporting astronomical observations, among other areas. NICE-OHMS in Mid-Infrared Submitted October 23, 2012 - 11:04 AM In recent papers in Optics Letters and Chemical Physics Letters , the McCall group has demonstrated the first two widely-tunable implementations of the ultra-sensitive NICE-OHMS technique in the mid-infrared region. Dr. Kreckel receives ERC Starting Grant Submitted July 16, 2012 - 10:44 AM Holger Kreckel has received a ~1.5M Euro starting grant from the European Research Council! [Read More] Record-Breaking Spectroscopy! Submitted July 13, 2012 - 11:08 AM A letter describing our QCL spectroscopy of pyrene, the largest molecule ever studied with rotationally-resolved absorption spectroscopy, is now in press in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Mike Porambo Awarded NASA Fellowship Submitted May 21, 2012 - 12:43 PM Congratulations to Mike Porambo for receiving a prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, which will support him for up to 3 years! Kyle Crabtree Awarded CfA Fellowship Submitted May 21, 2012 - 12:28 PM Congratulations to Kyle Crabtree for receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)! Colonel Brian Tom! Submitted January 31, 2012 - 3:45 PM Brian Tom (PhD 2009), now on the faculty at the US Air Force Academy, just learned he will be promoted to Colonel! Congratulations! Dr. Joshua P. DiGangi Submitted December 21, 2011 - 11:33 AM Josh DiGangi, an undergrad from our lab, received his PhD from the Keutsch lab at the University of Wisconsin! Dr. Andrew A. Mills Submitted December 20, 2011 - 1:17 PM Andrew Mills received his PhD this past weekend for his work on the SCRIBES instrument. He has taken a position at...