10/10/2024
 Check out Shih-Yuan's latest and greatest preprint! Here we study how to make ferrofluid liquid marbles rock, roll, and jump.

6/23/2024
 Check out the newest work from the gel collab with the Szczepanski lab! Here we study how transient stress due to fluid imbibement leads to surface instabilities.

6/12/2024
 Check out our new preprint studying the migrating ferrofluid drops - they wobble and flop in surprising ways! SI movies here.

6/5/2024
 Phalguni's review on the impact of complex fluid drops is finally out! See the arXiv version here.

4/5/2024
 Haley Shamah joins the group! Haley was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to work on understanding how microrollers manuver in confined spaces.

4/5/2024
 Audra Rosenzweig joins the group! Audra was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to work on synthesizing elongated particles with an adjustable magnetic moment.

3/8/2024
 The Driscoll lab was well-represented at March Meeting. Brian, Sam, Michelle, and Shih-Yuan all gave amazing talks!

2/6/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on microrollers interacting with structure at the Mechanical Engineering Seminar at Michigan State University.

12/7/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on microrollers interacting with structure at the Fluids Seminar in the MechE Department at Penn State.

12/1/2023
 Check out our new preprint studying how a single microroller can resturcture a passive suspension.

11/20/2023
 Shih-Yuan presented a talk discussing how magnetic microrollers move through and restructure passive particles at the APS DFD.

11/7/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Applied Physical Sciences Colloquium at the University of North Carolina.

06/16/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on hydrogel fracture at the CECAM workshop "3D cracks and crack stability".

06/08/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Complex Systems/Biophysics Seminar at NC State.

06/06/2023
 The Driscoll lab was well-represented at ACS Colloids in Raleigh. Brian and Shih-Yuan gave fantasitc talks!

4/11/2023
 Kevin was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to study gel mechanics. Welcome to the lab Kevin!

4/11/2023
 Sam was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to continue his work studying the influence of particle shape on dried deposit patterning.

03/06/2023
 The Driscoll lab was well-represented at March Meeting. Brian, Carly, and Shih-Yuan all gave amazing talks!

01/26/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Chemical Engineering Seminar at the University of Illinois - Chicago

01/04/2023
 Michelle presented the group's work on magnetic microrollers at the Aspen workshop "Active matter in complex environments".

12/01/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on microrollers at the Condensed Matter Seminar at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

11/30/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the MRSEC Seminar at Brandeis University

11/21/2022
 The Driscoll lab was well-represented at the APS DFD; both Carly and Shih-Yuan gave excellent talks!

10/20/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Condensed Matter Seminar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

10/12/2022
 Shih-Yuan presented a poster about how magnetic microrollers move through and restructure passive particles at the Society of Rheology meeting in Chicago.

10/12/2022
 Brian presented a poster on the rebound of impacting colloidal drops at the Society of Rheology meeting in Chicago.

10/11/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Society of Rheology meeting in Chicago.

9/29/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on magnetic microrollers at the Active Matter and Complex Media Summer School in Cargese, Corsica.

9/26/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Physics Seminar at the University of Luxembourg.

9/16/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the Physics Colloquium at the University of California - Merced.

9/3/2022
 Check out our new preprint studying the bursting of thin colloidal films, where we found some really cool instabilities, and also led to some surprises about viscous flows.

9/2/2022
 Check out our new preprint where we developed a fast and flexible pure python implementation for fluorescent streak velocimetry. This work grew out a collboration with the Richards lab at NU, and you can check out the code here.

8/21/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on magnetic microrollers at the Lorenz Workshop: Active matter: the next 25 years in Leiden, Netherlands.

8/8/2022
 Phalguni Shah sucessfully defended, becoming the Driscoll lab's first PhD!

7/24/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at the BIRS Workshop: Equilibrium and non-Equilibrium Pattern Formation in Soft Matter: From Elastic Solids to Complex Fluids in Kelowna, Canada.

7/10/2022
 The Driscoll lab is headed to ACS Colloids in Golden, CO. Look out for Phalguni & Shih-Yuan's presentation on Wednesday!

6/21/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on magnetic microrollers at the 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Austin, TX.

6/15/2022
 ETHS students Raymundo Sandoval Valdez and Haneef Khan start summer internships in the Driscoll lab. They will be studying instabilities in complex fluid sheets. Welcome to the lab Mundo & Haneef!

4/19/2022
 Carly was awarded a second Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to continue her work studying instabilities in yield-stress fluid sheets.

4/12/2022
 Check out our new preprint exploring microrollers and obstacles - we found a surprising hydrodynamic trapping effect.

4/11/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work (virtually) on colloidal drop impact at a Condensed Matter Seminar in the Department of Physcis and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.

4/11/2022
 Aryeh Silver was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to study the gel mechanics, specifically fatigue behavior. Welcome to the lab Aryeh!

4/11/2022
 Sam Nielsen was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to study the effects of particle shape on drying colloidal suspensions. Welcome to the lab Sam!

3/23/2022
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at a Center for Nonlinear Dynamics seminar at the University of Texas.

3/18/2022
 The Driscoll lab was well-represented at March Meeting! Brian, Phalguni, Carly, Brendan, and Shih-Yuan all gave excellent presentations!

1/24/2022
 Check out our new paper on the drop impact of dense suspensions on the arXiv: ``Transition to shear jamming in colloidal drop impact''

11/30/2021
 Michelle presented (virtually) the group's work on microrollers at the Cornell Fluids Seminar.

11/23/2021
 Brian presented his talk "Drying Colloidal Suspensions: Simple Patterns and Complex Flows" (in person!) at the APS DFD Meeting.

11/23/2021
 Michelle presented Phalguni's work "Drop impact of colloidal suspensions: effect of particle anisotropy" (in person!) at the APS DFD Meeting.

10/1/2021
 Shih-Yuan Chen joins the group! Shih-Yuan completed his PhD with Karen Daniels at North Carolina State University.

6/1/2021
 Brian Seper has officially joined the Driscoll lab! He will be studying instabilities in drying colloidal suspensions.

4/12/2021
 Carly Galvin was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to study instabilities in viscoelastic sheets. Welcome to the lab Carly!

4/12/2021
 Lily Boyd was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to continue her studies o6 the impact of colloidal suspensions.

3/17/2021
 Kelsey presented her talk "Gel rupture in a dynamic environment" (virtually) at the APS March Meeting.

3/15/2021
 Phalguni presented her talk "Drop impact of anisotropic colloidal suspensions" (virtually) at the APS March Meeting.

3/15/2021
 Brendan presented his talk "Microrollers maneuvering complex geometries" (virtually) at the APS March Meeting.

2/11/2021
 Michelle presented (virtually) the group's work on colloidal drop impact at Ecole Polytechnique's LadhyX lab seminar.

12/18/2020
 Check out Phalguni's review paper on the arXiv: ``Drop Impact Dynamics of Complex Fluids: A Review''

11/23/2020
 Ernest presented his talk ``Hydrodynamic trapping of microrollers by cylindrical obstacle'' (virtually) at the APS DFD

11/23/2020
 Phalguni presented her talk ``The Making and Breaking of Viscous Bubbles'' (virtually) at the APS DFD

9/25/2020
 Check out our new paper on gel rupture on the arXiv: ``Gel rupture in a dynamic environment''

9/15/2020
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal drop impact at Emory's Physics Colloquium.

8/28/2020
 Brian Seper starts his rotation in the lab today - welcome Brian!

8/6/2020
 Michelle presented the group's work on colloidal microrollers at the Microscopy and Microanalysis Society's annual meeting.

8/1/2020
 The Driscoll lab has received seed funding from Northwestern's Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience for a collaborative project with the Richards lab to develop a new system for studying dense suspensions flows with an eye towards electrochemical technologies.

7/15/2020
 The Driscoll lab has received NSF funding for our project: Impact of a colloidal suspension droplet: Suspension flows at extreme shear rates

6/29/2020
 Isaih Katz graduated today! Congrats Isaiah!

6/9/2020
 Phalguni presented her talk ``How does a paint bubble pop?: Rupture dynamics of colloidal soap films'' (virtually) at ACS Colloids

5/13/2020
 Check out our new paper on the arXiv: ``Active dynamics in a dense suspension of microrollers''

1/30/2020
 Michelle gave a physics colloquium at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

12/19/2019
 Ernest presented his talk ``Microrollers: dynamics and anisotropy'' at ``Soft Condensed Matter 20th Anniversary Symposium'' in Utrecht

11/19/2019
 Srishti will be presenting at the upcoming APS DFD Meeting! Look for her talk in session Q24: Drops: Complex Fluids.

11/19/2019
 Ernest will be presenting at the upcoming APS DFD Meeting! Look for his talk in session P35: Microscale Flows: Active Particles.

11/19/2019
 Phalguni will be presenting at the upcoming APS DFD Meeting! Look for her talk in session A25: Bubbles: Collapse I.

11/14/2019
 Michelle gave an invited talk in the Fluids Seminar series at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

10/24/2019
 Three Driscoll lab members have been chosen as finalists in Northwestern's 2019 Scientific Images contest: Kelsey-Ann Leslie, Yuchen Liu, and Phalguni Shah! Congratulations to all!

9/20/2019
 New Masters student Xinjue Wei has joined the group! He will be working with anisotropic colloidal microrollers.

9/4/2019
 New PhD student Zehao Song has joined the group! He will be studying driven colloidal suspensions.

8/15/2019
 Srishti won Best Poster prize at the Soft Matter GRC - congratulations Srishti!

8/9/2019
 Srishti, Phalguni, and Ernest will be presenting their research at the upcoming Soft Matter GRC

5/31/2019
 Kelsey was selected as best presentation from her panel! Congratulations Kelsey!

5/29/2019
 Kelsey presented her work at Northwestern's Undergraduate Research Expo!

4/15/2019
 Ravi Chepuri, Gabriel Petersen, and Yuchen Liu have been awarded Undergraduate Research Grants to complete a project in the Driscoll lab this summer!

4/8/2019
 Robert Doane-Solomon joins the group. He is a summer intern who is headed to Oxford next fall, and he will be working with Kelsey on gel mechanics.

3/11/2019
 Michelle gave an invited talk at the CECAM Workshop, "Emergent dynamics and self-assembly of out-of-equilibrium colloids"

3/9/2019
 Michael Frim presented his 2018 summer project at the IJAS regional science fair, and earned a gold ranking as well as an invitation to the state science fair. Additionally, he is invited to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Congratulations Michael!

2/27/2019
 Phalguni won a travel award from APS GSOFT for travel to March Meeting!

2/7/2019
 Margot Murray joins the group. She will be working on colloidal synthesis.

1/8/2019
 Srishti will be presenting at the upcoming APS March Meeting! Look for her talk in session B59: Colloidal drops under extreme stress.

1/8/2019
 Phalguni will be presenting at the upcoming APS March Meeting! Look for her talk in session S58: Rigid Bubbles: Novel Instabilities in Colloidal Film Rupture.

12/11/2018
 Congratulations to Srishti + Michael for taking home 4th place in Northwestern's Scientific Image contest!

10/20/2018
 Three of the finalists in Northwestern's Scientific Images Contest are from the Driscoll lab! Congratulations to Isaiah, Phalguni, and Michael + Srishti!

10/1/2018
 Kelsey-Ann Leslie joins the group. She will be studying gel mechanics.

10/1/2018
 Orion Forowycz returns after his summer REU experience. He will be studying colloidal droplets.

8/1/2018
 Ernest van der Wee joins the group! Ernest completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alfons van Blaaderen at Utrecht University.

7/16/2018
 Summer intern Ananya Visweswaran begins working in the lab. She will be studying colloidal droplet impact, with an emphasis on magnetic colloids.

6/11/2018
 Summer interns Max Baliga, Jack Idler, and Michael Frim begin working in the lab. Michael will be working on imaging rapidly moving contact lines, and Max & Jack will be studying how gels break apart.

5/30/2018
 Phalguni presents her poster, "Rupture of Colloidal Soap Films", at the UMass Summer School on Soft Solids and Complex Fluids.

4/20/2018
 Isaiah Katz & Samuel Kim both win Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Grants to complete summer projects in the lab. Isaiah is working on developing methods to measure thin fluid films, and Sam will be studying the impact of colloidal droplets.

4/10/2018
 Renovations are complete - Driscoll lab moves into our permenant lab space.

3/27/2018
 Srishti Arora joins the group! Srishti completed her PhD under the joint supervision of Prof. Christian Ligoure and Dr. Laurence Ramos at Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université Montpellier.

2/12/2018
 Phalguni Shah joins the group! Phalguni completed a Masters at the University of Mumbai.

11/2/2017
 Joseph McCourt joins the group! Joseph completed his BA at College Of The Holy Cross.