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CEMS graduate student Rashmi Choudhary wins prestigious Ovshinsky Student Travel Award
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Jan 25 2023 - Rashmi Choudhary, a fourth-year materials science graduate student in the Jalan group, has won the prestigious Ovshinsky Student Travel Award to participate in the 2023 American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, sponsored by the Division of Materials Physics.
CEMS students, postdoc win Crucible Prize awards
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Jan 18 2023 - Congratulations to the winners of the 2nd Annual Crucible Prize sponsored by Navjot Singh (PhD ChE ’94) and Nithya Iyer Singh (MS Pharmaceutics ’94). The Crucible Prize competition invited participants to present a 10 minute pitch presentation followed by five minutes of Q&A to a panel of two commercialization experts.
Dipanjan Ghosh wins an outstanding poster award at the Aspen Center for Physics conference
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Jan 10 2023 - Dipanjan Ghosh, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Cheng group, was awarded an outstanding poster award at the Active Matter in Complex Environments conference at the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado. This conference brought together a diverse group of researchers working in active matter, a rapidly developing field that strives to understand the complex behavior of living systems.
Chemical researchers discover catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings, and diapers
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Jan 9 2022 - A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers.
Collaborative research featuring University of Minnesota MRSEC theorists sheds new light on superconductivity in two-dimensional materials
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Jan 6 2022 - New work appearing in Nature has uncovered unusual and appealing superconducting properties realized in bilayer MoTe2. This two-dimensional semimetal is formed by stacking two atomically thin layers of MoTe2 in a specific non-centrosymmetric configuration that allows for a phenomenon called ferroelectricity to emerge.
Researchers discover new process to create freestanding membranes of 'smart' materials
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Jan 4 2022 - A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team of scientists and engineers has developed a new method for making thin films of perovskite oxide semiconductors, a class of “smart” materials with unique properties that can change in response to stimuli like light, magnetic fields, or electric fields.
Leighton, Mkhoyan, and Birol Groups Achieve New Room-Temperature Functionality in Perovskite Oxides
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Dec 20 2022 - Recent collaborative work from the Leighton, Mkhoyan, and Birol groups, just published in the journal Nature Communications, has achieved the first room-temperature valence transition in a perovskite oxide.
CEMS students discuss their individual paths that led them to STEM
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Dec 20 2022 - CEMS graduate students represent a wide range of demographic identities and a commensurately diverse set of paths to STEM. To showcase these paths and give high school students a broader perspective on their potential in STEM, selected CEMS students were interviewed in a series of story videos.
Julie Prince among nominees for CSE Outstanding Service Award
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Dec 13 2022 - Julie Prince, Program Associate for Graduate Studies, was among 16 nominees for the inaugural College of Science and Engineering (CSE) Outstanding Service Awards. The awards seek to recognize and reward exceptional performance and contributions by staff and student employees.
CEMS launches a new Data Science for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Master’s degree
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July 20 2022 -CEMS is launching a unique interdisciplinary M.S. degree program which aims to bridge disciplinary expertise in chemical engineering and materials science with data and computational science.