A team of researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed software that’s being used by engineers and scientists around the world to make advances in materials modeling, space technology development and data science.
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**NEW for 2020**
People’s Choice Award
It is time to vote for your favorite entry in the Material Visualization Competition (MVC) which celebrates the quality of research in materials at Penn State. This is the twelfth year for the MVC but the very first People's Choice Award.
This year we received seventeen (17) entries. All entries will be available online for the public to view and vote on electronically through Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.
You may vote one time per device each day. The image that receives the most votes will receive the very first People’s Choice Award and $100 prize. Winner will be announced during the Spring Awards Ceremony.
This category is entirely up to you, as the People's Choice Awards are for the people, by the people. So vote for your favorite each day with all your devices!
As Penn State Materials Research Institute prepared for its 2019 Materials Day event – held Oct. 29-30 – 3M was busy reinforcing its relationship with Penn State to advance research activities with a new $900,000 commitment over the next three years.
Looking back on his 35 years in the industry and building products arena, John A. "Jack" Coppola can count his accomplishments.
Four graduate students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MastSE) were awarded 2020 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
We welcome current MatSE faculty, staff and students to join us for a town hall meeting on Thursday, April 16 at 3:30 p.m. via Zoom. The purpose of this meeting is to briefly update everyone on relevant news and to answer questions.
An email was sent out to current faculty, staff and students @psu.edu addresses with Zoom login information. If you did not receive this email, please contact Brandy Brown at bcm12@psu.edu for the information.
If you have a question you would like to have addressed during the town hall, please submit your question here by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 13.
Our speakers will be:
Susan Sinnott
Departmant Head and Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
R. Allen Kimel
Associate Head for Undergraduate Studies and Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
John Mauro
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program, Associate Head for Graduate Education, and Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
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An atomically thin materials platform developed by Penn State researchers in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Oak Ridge National Lab will open a wide range of new applications in biomolecular sensing, quantum phenomena, catalysis and nonlinear optics.
A lithium-ion battery that is safe, has high power and can last for 1 million miles has been developed by a team in Penn State’s Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center.
An effective response to the emergence and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus, known in the scientific community as SARS-CoV-2, includes the critical role of the scientific community in assessing key knowledge gaps with research focused on improving prevention, diagnostics, treatment, infection control practices and public health policies. Anyone at Penn State with relevant expertise and a potentially impactful idea should apply for funding.