Svetlana has received the Bayer Materials Science Merit Scholarship for outstanding achievement in the coursework as well as cumulative exam performance.
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Svetlana has received the Bayer Materials Science Merit Scholarship for outstanding achievement in the coursework as well as cumulative exam performance.
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Shelby was awarded for her thesis entitled, Deformation Behavior and Mechanical Analysis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube (VACNT) Bundles for developing simple models to describe the deformation of carbon nanotube assemblies under... Read More...
Geckskin, a super-strong adhesive device developed by Al Crosby, Michael Bartlett and colleagues, was named one of the top 5 scientific breakthroughs of 2012.
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PSE faculty selected Piril for the Santos Go award for 2012. The Santos Go Memorial Merit Scholarship is awarded each year to the most outstanding second year PSE student as judged by scholarly accomplishments accrued during the... Read More...
Professor Maria Santore was recently elected, for the year 2012, to Fellowship in the AAAS (American Society for the Advancement of Science.) Maria will be recognized for her contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum... Read More...
Ken Carter was given an NSF Special Creativity Award from the Division of Materials Research of National Science Foundation (NSF) in recognition of his excellent research on semiconducting polymers involving hybrid moieties and the... Read More...
Jim Watkins has been elected a 2012 APS Fellow (American Physical Society) by the Division of Polymer Physics for his pioneering efforts in manipulating polymers to develop technologically functional nanoscopic materials. Jim will be... Read More...
Professor Kenneth Carter was honored with the Percy Julian Medal in a ceremony at the 39th Annual Conference of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), September... Read More...
As of September 1, 2012, Al Crosby has been promoted to full professor.
President Obama recently named Alejandro Briseno to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government on science and engineering professionals... Read More...
PSE welcomes David Waldman ('83 alum) as the new CUMIRP Program Director.
The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored and funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) as part of its commitment to increasing the number and quality of our nation's scientists and engineers.
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Tom Russell has been named the Spring 2012 Kalvi Lecturer. He will give a presentation at the upcoming MRS Meeting on April 9th, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
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This grant has been awarded to study bioadhesion in geckos and insects. The researchers received international scientific and media attention recently for their discovery reported in the journal Advanced Materials, of how gecko feet and... Read More...
Greg Grason, was among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada to be awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Dr. Alex Ribbe has recently joined our department as the Director of the W. M. Keck Electron Microscopy Facility.
Tom was honored at the Seventh Annual Faculty Convocation on Friday, September 16, 2011. He was one of six acclaimed faculty members who were presented with the Award.
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Effective September 1st, 2011, Ken Carter, Bryan Coughlin, Todd Emrick and Greg Tew have been promoted to full professor.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $20 million grant to support a national research center for nanomanufacturing through a second round of funding for the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM).
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Al Crosby was awarded a 2011 ESPCI-Michelin Fellowship to visit academic and industrial laboratories in Paris.