March 23 & 24: Materials Technology Laborotory/ Steel Research Group, 25th Annual Meeting, Ford Design Center, ITW room.
Week of March 9th:
Jerome B. Cohen Distinguished Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering
Presented by Helmut Dosch
Chariman of the Board of Directors, Deutches Elektronen-Synchrotron
2009
Researchers from Northwestern University, together with collaborators from the Art Institute of Chicago, have completed the first comprehensive survey of the alloy composition of a large number of cast bronze sculptures by major European artists from the first half of the 20th century. more
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Tobin Marks has received the Nichols Award.more
Professor Morris Fine has been honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota. more
Tobin Marks, Mark Hersam and Lincoln Lauhon receive a Nanoelectronics Research Initiative grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation more
Chad Mirkin has been awarded the Lemelson- MIT Prize for Invention. more
Greg Olson has been awarded the ASM 2010 Gold Medal for "contributions to understanding the science of steel, application of thermodynamics to the design of steel with prescribed properties, and applications of this design concept to industry and education.” He will receive the award at the 2010 MS&T meeting.
The 2009 Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Hilliard Award for Undergraduate Leadership, Scholarship and Service was awarded to Kelly M. Luckasevic.
The 2009 Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Hilliard Awards for Undergraduate Research and Design were awarded to Christopher T. Chen, for his project "Nanoscale Doping of Transparent Conducting Oxides with Focused Ion Beam" and Matthew L. Chastain, for his project "Prehistoric Copper Metallurgy at Cahokia, Illinois"
Professor Morris Fine has been honored with the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota. This award recognizes graduates who have attained unusual distinction in their chosen fields or in public service, and who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and leadership on a community, state, national, or international level.
Teri Odom has been selected as one of 15 members of DSSG 2010-2011 from over 165 candidates. DSSG introduces young professors experienced in a variety of disciplines and from the country's top universities to take part in US protection challenges.
Tobin Marks has won the 2009 Nelson W. Taylor award from the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State. It recognizes his outstanding achievements and contributions to the field of materials.
Congratulations to Hilliard Symposium award winners: Chris Booth-Morrison, Cynthia Pierre and Michelle Seitz. moreChad Mirkin named to Obama's Science and Technology Advisory Council.
NU-MSE named #2 graduate Materials program by US News and World Report
Ph.D. candidate Kendra Erk has been awarded a P.E.O. Scholar Award. Sponsored by the International Chapter of the Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood, the award recognizes scholarly excellence, academic achievement, worthwhile career goals, and propensity to make a significant contribution to one's field. MSE Ph.D. candidate Megan Greenfield received the award in 2008.
Low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory could be the long-term result of collaborative research led by Cornell materials scientist Darrell Schlom and involving Michael Bedzyk published April 17 in Science. more
David Seidman featured in TMS spotlight. more
Vinayak Dravid has been named a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America. He was cited for "outstanding contributions and leadership in nanoscale characterization of materials by electron microscopy and scanned probe microscopy".
Huang group graphite oxide cover story in JACS featured in C&E News.
Sam Stupp and Tobin Marks have been elected fellows of the Materials Research Society.
Praneet Adusumilli, (PhD Candidate, Seidman group) has been awarded an IBM Fellowship for 2009-2010.
Ramille Capito, Research Assistant Professor with the Stupp group, presented "Exploration of Novel Materials and Nanotubes in Stem Cell Therapy," Feb. 14, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Capito will join the department as Assistant Professor in September 2009. More>
Chad Mirkin elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. More>
Monica Olvera describes the electrostatic origins of chiral patterns in nanofibers in a cover article of Soft Matter. Journal Article> Press Release>
Mark Hersam's work on Nanoscale Conducting Oxide Writing appears as cover article in Advanced Materials. Christopher Chen, an MSE senior, is coauthor on the paper. More>
Grad women explore 'The Power of Asking.' More>
Chad Mirkin receives the Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from ACS, and the Havinga Medal 2009 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. More>
Samuel Stupp is awarded honorary doctorate by the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. More>
Mark Hersam uses density gradient ultracentrifugation to separate double-walled carbon nanotubes from single-walled and multi-walled nanotubes. More>