![VESL group photo of PhD graduates and full group](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2024/05/GraduationAndQual-1024x577.png)
Congratulations all around! Congratulations to Dr. Yulan Chen and Dr. Ludovico Cestarollo who are the first two Ph.D. students to graduate from the VESL group! Congratulations to Haosen, Htoo, and Smaran for passing their qualifying exams with flying colors!
![Presentations at Intermag 2024](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2024/05/Intermag2024-e1717118426578-1024x548.png)
After a lineup of excellent presentations by Htoo, Ludovico, and Yulan at Intermag 2024, the group went out to experience Rio de Janeiro!
![VESL group at a corn maze](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2023/11/CornMaze-1024x451.png)
Teamwork led the VESL group out of a corn maze, as they solved the questions together at Stoughton Farm. – October 28, 2023
![Karthik, Amal, and Yulan at Paisley Park](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2023/03/IMG_2147-1024x768.jpg)
While at the MMM 2022 conference in Minneapolis, MN, Dr. Karthik Srinivasan, Professor El-Ghazaly, and Yulan Chen did an excursion out to Paisley Park to see the musician Prince’s home. – November 4, 2022
![VESL group members at Cayuga Lake](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2022/09/Kayaking-1024x576.png)
VESL group at Taughannock Falls State Park on Cayuga Lake kayaking and stand up paddleboarding together! – July 30, 2022
![Sputtering Deposition System](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2021/07/Sputterer-1024x768.jpg)
AJA International Orion sputtering system was installed in the VESL group lab in Duffield 327 – June 2021.
![Vibrating Sample Magnetometer](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2021/07/VSM-1024x768.jpg)
Lakeshore vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) model 8067 was installed in the VESL group lab in Duffield 327 – June 2021.
![VESL group in the snow](https://vesl.ece.cornell.edu/files/2021/07/Image-from-iOS-1024x768.jpg)
VESL group at Labrador Mountain skiing and snowboarding together! – March 6, 2021