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DEPARTMENT NEWS
CEMS students win President's Student Leadership and Service Awards
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Apr 13, 2023 - Four CEMS students are among the recipients of the 2023 President's Student Leadership and Service Awards (PSLSA). Congratulations to Marisa Bazzi (fifth-year MSE graduate student), Spencer Bingham (fourth-year MSE graduate student), Ashlie Hamilton (MSE '24), and Amy Wesolowski (ChE '23). These awards honor outstanding students for their invaluable leadership and service to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the community.
CEMS student named 2023 Goldwater Scholar
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Apr 5, 2023 - Fred Tutt, a junior undergraduate student majoring in materials science and chemistry, has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The prestigious, competitive scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research-oriented careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.
CEMS students and recent alumni receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards
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Apr 4, 2023 - Several CEMS students and recent alumni received awards through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Register for the IPRIME Annual Meeting
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Mar 28, 2023 - This meeting attracts several hundred participants and offers a lively scientific exchange between our member companies and the faculty and students involved in IPRIME’s research programs.
Register for the Coating Process Fundamentals Short Course
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Mar 8, 2023 - This 2.5 day in person course provides coating engineers, scientists and researchers with an understanding of the principles of premetered coating processes and solidification phenomena that are central to developing high performance, precision coatings used in a variety of industries.
University of Minnesota to offer new Data Science for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science master’s degree
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Mar 8, 2023 - In fall 2023, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering will begin offering a new master’s degree in data science for chemical engineering and materials science to meet the growing industry demand for scientists and engineers with computational and data analytics skills.
Associate Professor Vivian Ferry awarded an International Institute for Biosensing grant
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Mar 22 2023 - Associate Professor Vivian Ferry was recently awarded a $225,000 grant for her research proposal, "Selective detection of chiral pesticides with plasmonic metasurfaces using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy" as part of the International Institute for Biosensing (IIB), a new globally-engaged institute at the University of Minnesota focused on advancing biosensing research.
CEMS team wins 2023 TMS Materials Bowl
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Mar 21 2023 - For the second year in a row, a team of CEMS students won the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Materials Bowl, a materials-themed knowledge and trivia competition, held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition. To compete, each school's Material Advantage (MA) chapter can assemble a team of four chapter members and one graduate student to represent their school.
CEMS graduate student Yi "Johnny" Zhang wins prestigious Ovshinsky Student Travel Award
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Mar 16 2023 - Yi "Johnny" Zhang, a fifth-year materials science Ph.D. student in Professor Chris Leighton's research group, recently won an Ovshinsky Student Travel Award to participate in the 2023 American Physical Society March Meeting, sponsored by the Division of Materials Physics. Zhang presented his work on the chemical vapor transport (CVT) crystal growth and thermal properties of the delafossite material PdCoO2.
Michelle Calabrese selected for UKPPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange
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Mar 15 2023 - Assistant Professor Michelle Calabrese has been selected by the Division of Polymer Physics (DPOLY) of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Polymer Physics Group of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom (UKPPG) for the 2023 UKPPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange. She will serve as the DPOLY representative to the UKPPG and present her research at the 2024 UK Polymer Physics Group Physical Aspects of Polymer Science Meeting on September 11–13, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Established in 2009, the UKPPG/DPOLY Polymer Lecture Exchange honors faculty members in the early stages of their careers.