The department is pleased to announce that Ralph Colby, Professor of Materials Sci...
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Please join the department in congratulating Professors Painter and Redwing for receiving awards at the 2012 College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Wilson Banquet: Dr. Paul Painter received the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Paul F. Robertson Award for the Breakthrough of the Year. Dr. Painter is recognized for... |
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The department of Materials Science and Engineering is saddened by the news that Charles E. Brackbill passed away on April 10, 2012. Mr. Brackbill received his bachelor's degree from Penn State in ceramic engineering in 1949. He was a member of the American Ceramics Society, Keramos Honorary Society, Life Member of the Penn... |
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Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of peers reviews nominations and selects candidates. Venkatraman... |
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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Joshua Robinson as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Robinson was formerly a research associate for the Electro-Optics Center at Penn State.... |
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On March 17, 2012, Thomas Toohig, Erika Kohlhaas, and Jennifer DiStefano received the University President's Freshman Award for achieving 4.0 in their first semester at Penn State. This award is presented annually to undergraduate degree candidates and provisional students who have earned a 4.00 (A) cumulative grade-point average based on... |
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Congratulations to Seth Berbano (Ph.D. student working with Michael Lanagan and Clive Randall) and Elizabeth Michael (Ph.D. student working with Jeffrey Brownson) for receiving NSF Fellowships. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master... |
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Penn State’s Board of Trustees Friday (March 16) approved the appointment of EYP Architecture and Engineering PC, of Albany, N.Y., as architects for the renovation of the Steidle Building in the historic core of the University Park campus. More information>... |
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Long-Qing Chen delivered the keynote lecture titled "Phase-Field Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Elastically Inhomogeneous Systems" during the Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics symposium at the annual TMS meeting held March, 2012. This session was held... |
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The research of Materials Science and Engineering Associate Professor, Qing Wang, is included this month in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). Wang and the work of his research group are included in an article titled... |
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The photograph of the presentation shows, left to right, Peter Thrower, Hui-Ming Cheng (Chair, Asian Association of Carbon Groups), Wesley P. Hoffmann (Chair, American Carbon Society), Michio Inagaki, and Marc Monthioux (Chair, European Carbon Association). The first Peter A. Thrower Award... |
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Dr. Robert Kumpf, '84, '86, '88 EAB member and Adjunct member of the faculty, has left Bayer MaterialScience to become Chief Operating Officer of Plextronics, Inc., based in Pittsburgh. "Plextronics is a late-stage... |
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We are pleased to announce that Ralph Colby has been named Editor of the Journal of Rheology. The Society of Rheology was founded in 1929 to foster the study of the mechanical properties of deformable materials and is dedicated to advancing the science of rheology. ... |
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Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MATSE) at Penn State have published their work on the cover of the latest issue of ACS Macro Letters, a new journal in polymer science. Learn more>> |
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The Materials Visualization Competition (MVC) 2012 is under way! MVC is a scientific visual and artistic competition sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute. Created to celebrate the quality of research in Materials at Penn... |
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Alan Piciacchio, who received a BS in Ceramic Science and Engineering in 1989, followed by an MS in Ceramic Science in 1991, recently achieved the level of Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, a prestigious accomplishment within IBM’s technical community. Alan’s MS thesis work was under the direction of Dr. Gary Messing and focused... |
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Mauricio Terrones, Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering has been named a 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This year, 539 members were named fellows and will receive their recognition on February 18, 2012 during... |
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Materials Science and Engineering joined the Learning Factory in Fall 2011, |
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Penn State authors Long-Qing Chen, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Benjamin Winchester and Jason Britson, both graduate students in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering publish an article titled "Enhanced electric conductivity at ferroelectric vortex cores in BiFeO3... |
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Penn State authors Long-Qing Chen, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Benjamin Winchester and Yijia Gu, both graduate students in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering publish an article titled "Domain Dynamics During Ferroelectric Switching" in the latest Science issue.... |
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Professor Long-Qing Chen and colleagues from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China have published an article titled "High-density magnetoresistive random access memory operating at ultralow voltage at room temperature" in Nature Communications. To view the article,... |
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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to announce the inaugural "Robert E. Newnham Award for Research Excellence". The award recognizes outstanding achievement in research by graduate students enrolled in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering. The 2011 awardees are Yijia... |
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Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories across the U.S. who have fabricated piezoelectric thin films with record-setting properties. ... |
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Penn State authors publish an article titled "Giant Piezoelectricity on Si for Hyperactive MEMS" in the latest Science issue. To read this article, click here. |
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As the slow hand of Father Time moves faculty into retirement, so too does it deposit a coating of dust on hundreds of books in Steidle Building. Faculty Emeritus Michael Coleman recently cleaned out his office in Steidle Building, soon to be followed in retirement by... |
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Jack Coppola (pictured above with Dean William Easterling), retired senior vice president, science and technology for Johns Manville, was awarded the 2011 Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Alumni Achievement Award on November 4, 2011. Jack received his BS in... |
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Gary Messing as Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (SIC). In that capacity Dr. Messing will collaborate with SIC scientists and give a series... |
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Russ Reber '81 METAL was recently promoted to VP of Quality, Technical and Customer Service at Carpenter Technology Corporation. Russ will now be responsible for quality accreditation, NDT, testing laboratories, process/product technology, technical resource recruitment and retention and customer service enhancement. Russ has ten years in... |
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Professor Zi-Kui Liu has received the 2012 Brimacombe Medalist Award from TMS. This award recognizes an individual with sustained excellence and achievement in business, technology, education, public policy, or science related to materials science and engineering. Winners of this award may be eligible for Acta Materialia Gold Medal, AIME... |
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Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has announced the recipient of the 2011 Charles L. Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal, James W. McCauley. McCauley is a chief scientist and ARL Fellow at the Army Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Md., the highest-ranking scientific position at ARL. ... |
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Penn State has received a significant grant from ArcelorMittal USA to support student development, recruitment, and diversity in engineering and materials. The grant was awarded through the company’s Campus Partnership Program (CPP), which provides funding to key U.S. colleges and universities to support special programs... |
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The Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in Materials Science and Engineering was created to provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to pursue research by working with leading scientists and engineers in Materials Science and Engineering. Under the guidance of the fellow’s research advisor, each fellow will go through the... |
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The Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award recognizes truly outstanding work and creativity in teaching, directing student research or the general educational process of ceramic educators. Susan Trolier- McKinstry is professor of ceramic science... |
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The research group of Materials Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Mike Hickner continues to explore new surface coatings and ionic membranes for antifouling and water treatment applications. Their work, funded by the U.S. Navy, seeks to develop new polymers that resist protein... |
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Katherine Kragh, PhD student working for Dr Suzanne Mohney was selected as one of the inaugural fellows in the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship Program. She will be studying "Robust Electrical Contacts for Sensors and Electronics for Space Flight" and will have the opportunity to conduct research at NASA Glenn in Cleveland,... |
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Chosen from more than three dozen submissions, Nittany Extraction Technologies LLC, a start-up company that recently received an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners/Central and Northern (http://www.cnp.benfranklin.org), was named as one of the winners of the Innovation Expo... |
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Dr. Maureen L. Mulvihill '89, '91, & '96 has big plans for a very small product. Mulvihill is the president of the Benner Township company formerly known as Piezo Resonance Innovations, which has been reborn in September as Actuated Medical Inc. The company has spent the past three years developing... |
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Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor Opening in Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials Department of Materials Science and Engineering The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State... |
The department is pleased to announce that Drs. Elizabeth Kupp (...
May 14, 2012
Please join the department in congratulating Professors Painter and...
May 1, 2012
Lauren Abbott, advised by Dr. Coray Colina, won one of the 2011 Graduate Student A...
April 27, 2012
The department of Materials Science and Engineering is saddened by the news that...
April 19, 2012
Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represe...
April 13, 2012
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to announce the app...
April 11, 2012
On March 17, 2012, Thomas Toohig, Erika Kohlhaas, and Jennifer DiStefano received...
April 11, 2012
A new strategy for designing anion exchange membranes was reported by Michael Hick...
April 6, 2012
Congratulations to Seth Berbano (Ph.D. student working with Michael Lanagan and Cl...
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