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| New REU site
provides summer research opportunities for undergraduates |
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Carnegie Mellon University is hosting
a ten-week summer research program for undergraduate
students in diverse materials research areas. Student
will have the opportunity to select from a broad
range of projects involving chemistry, physics and
engineering of materials. learn more. learn
more.
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| Professor
Islam Recognized |
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Professor Mohammad Islam has received
the CAREER award from NSF. This is a five year, $500,000 grant.
He
has also been named as a Sloan Research Fellowship recipient.
According to Sloan's web site, "These awards are intended
to enhance the careers of the very best young
faculty members in specified fields of science.
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| Michael Gao's
recent paper was just awarded the "APDIC Best Paper Award" |
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MSE Research Associate, Dr. Michael Gao's
recent paper entitled "Reassessment of Al-Ce and Al-Nd
Binary Systems Supported by Critical Experiments
and First-Principles Energy Calculations" was just awarded
the "APDIC
Best Paper Award" for the best published manuscript on
alloy phase diagram data in the year 2005. learn
more. learn
more.
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| Stephen D. Sintay was
awarded "best poster of the conference" |
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Doctoral Student, Stephen D. Sintay (with
R.Campman, G. Welsh, E.L. Anagnostou, J.M Papazian, A.D. Rollett),
was awarded "best poster of the conference" for "Grain
orientation influence on matrix crack initiation in AA7075-T651," during
the International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural
Materials VI: Sponsored by the International Journal of Fatigue. learn
more.
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| Professor
Fruehan selected as an Honorary Member of AIME |
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Fruehan, US Steel and University Professor
has been selected by the Board of Directors of he
Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST)
as an Honorary Member of AIME. learn
more.
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| Professor
Seetharaman has been awarded the POSCO Faculty Development Professorship |
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Seetharaman received his Ph.D. from MIT
in 1998 and then spent a year as a research associate
at Imperial College in London. He first came to CMU as a visiting
scholar in 1999 and was appointed as an assistant professor
in 2000. In 2005, he was appointed as Associate Director of
the Center for Iron and Steel Making Research here at Carnegie
Mellon. learn
more. |
| MSE student
honors and awards |
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MSE doctoral student, Christopher Roberts
has been named the 2006 International Symposium on
Superalloys Scholar by TMS. learn
more.
MSE
Senior, Nicole Cates has been awarded the TMS Electronic,
Magnetic & Photonic
Materials Division Gilbert Chin Scholarship. learn
more.
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| Professor Heard
Receives FeMET INITIATIVE'S DESIGN GRANT |
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The American Iron and Steel Institute
(AISI) and the Association for Iron & Steel Technology
Foundation's (AIST Foundation) “Ferrous Metallurgy Education
Today,” or FeMET Initiative, has awarded grants to teams
of materials science engineering students and their professors
from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Missouri-Rolla. learn
more. |
| Professor Kumta's
paper is most cited |
Professor
Prashant Kumta's paper in Acta Biomaterialia, "Nanostructured
Calcium Phosphates for Biomedical Applications:
Novel Synthesis and Characterization," has been downloaded
827 time since publication and that this
is the most downloaded paper of the entire
Journal.
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| Professor
Anthony D. Rollett has developed a new computational
method that may help track the lifespan of U.S. Navy aircraft. learn
more. |
| Professor Heard
awarded Wimmer Faculty Fellow |
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The
Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has announced
the Wimmer Faculty Fellows for 2006.
learn
more. |
| Professor Kumta's
Group Recognized |
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 A
recent publication in supercapacitors by Professor
Prashant Kumta and his research group
is featured in Advanced Materials and also featured
on the cover. learn
more
Kumta's group paper on nanostructured calcium phosphates
in the first issue of Acta Biomaterialia is noted as the
most downloaded article since January 2005. learn
more. |
| Professor Davis
Awarded Prize |
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The Japan Fine Ceramics Association has
awarded Professor Robert F. Davis its 2006 International Prize.
This prize is awarded to persons who have made significant
and pioneering contributions to the fine ceramics industry
through technological development, cooperative research, and
international business development. |
| Professor Newell
Washburn receives a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award |
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Newell Washburn, Assistant Professor
of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Materials
Science and Engineering has received a 3M Nontenured
Faculty Award to support his basic research on biointeractive
polymers for wound healing. learn
more |
| Chien Wins Poster Competition |
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MSE Senior, Jui-Hung
(Harry) Chien won the poster competition of the "Light Metals Division" at the recent
TMS meeting in San Antonio, TX with his poster "The Effect
of Manganese Oxide and Iron Oxide on Radiative Heat Transfer
in Continuous Casting". |
| Tribute in
honor of Professor Hubert I. Aaronson |
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On Monday, May 15th at 10:00
AM, MSE will host a tribute in honor of Professor Hubert I.
Aaronson who passed away last December. Several of Hub's former
students and colleagues will share short remembrances of
their association with Hub the "Professor" and Hub the "Man". learn
more |
| The Paxton
Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Materials Science
and Engineering |
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This award, made possible by the generosity
of Ann and Harry Paxton, is intended to promote excellence
in doctoral scholarship by recognizing the best Ph.D. dissertation
of the year.. learn
more |
| CMU Students
Recognized |
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At the February 16th ASM International's
Young Members Night (Pittsburgh Golden Triangle
Chapter), MSE students took home many awards.
learn more |
| MSE Team Working
To Create Methanol-Powered Fuel Cells |
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Carnegie
Mellon University's
Prashant Kumta will
discuss his novel methanol-powered fuel cell research
from 8 to 9:30 a.m., Feb. 18, during the annual meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science at
the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Mo. learn
more |
Rollett's
Paper is highly cited |
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Professor
Anthony D. Rollett's paper "Current
issues in recrystallization" is most highly cited in many
journals for the year of 1997. learn
more |
| Paper selected
by ISI as a "fast
moving front" in Materials Science. |
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A paper from Professor
Marek Skowronski's
group was selected by Thomson ISI
Essential Science Indicators as a representative
of a "fast moving front" in
Materials Science. ISI identifies these papers by
a surge in recent citations. Marek's paper has recently
been cited 52 times in subsequent
publications. learn
more |
| Materials
Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)
receives $6.5 Million Award |
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Three recent
faculty publications have been recognized
for excellence |
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A paper by Professor
Robert F. Davis et. al. was selected as an "outstanding" result
from that facility
that acknowledges
collaborative research.
learn more
A paper by Professor
Marc De Graef was selected
as one of the best papers
this month. learn
more
 Professor
Mohammad Islam's paper was featured on the
cover of Science Magazine (Science, Vol 309,
Issue 5738, 1207-1210, 19 August 2005). The
paper, "Premelting at Defects Within Bulk Colloidal Crystals," by
Alsayed, Islam, Zhang, Collings, and Yodh,
accounts some of the work he did at Penn.
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