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View the "Industrial perspectives on data science in chemicals and advanced materials" webinar recording
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Oct 4 2022 -View the "Industrial perspectives on data science in chemicals and advanced materials" webinar recording
Engineers discover process for synthetic material growth, enabling soft robots to grow like plants
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An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has developed a new, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth, and the creation of a soft robot that builds its own solid body from liquid to navigate hard-to-reach places and complicated terrain.
Ellison selected to receive Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering from Iowa State University
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Sept 27 2022 -Professor Christopher Ellison, the Zsolt Rumy Innovation Chair, has been selected to receive a Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award from the College of Engineering at Iowa State University.
CEMS researchers lead $10.6M federal grant to develop a more sustainable process for programmable catalysis
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Sept. 7 2022 - A team led by University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science researchers has received $10.6 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC)—the Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis (CPEC).
CEMS graduate students honored with Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Awards
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Sept. 16 2022 - CEMS is proud to honor these graduate students (listed below) for their accomplishments as outstanding teaching assistants (TA) during the previous academic year (AY 2021-2022). Nominated by their course instructor and selected by the CEMS Directors of Graduate Studies, these honorees received a monetary award and were recognized at a recent department ceremony.
Supriya Ghosh receives Amelar and Lodge Fellowship
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Sept. 9 2022 -Supriya Ghosh has received the Richard D. Amelar and Arthur S. Lodge Fellowship for outstanding Collaborative Research in Materials for 2022-23.
Assistant Professor Natalie Boehnke's research paper featured in the academic journal Science
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July 22 2022 -CEMS Assistant Professor Natalie Boehnke's research paper titled "Massively parallel pooled screening reveals genomic determinants of nanoparticle delivery" has been featured in the academic journal Science.
CEMS welcomes new faculty members
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Aug 1 2022 -Assistant Professors Chris Bartel and Natalie Boehnke have started their faculty positions, effective August 1, 2022.
CEMS graduate student Spencer Bingham featured in the SciPride 2022 video collection at the Bell Museum.
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June 21 2022 -CEMS graduate student Spencer Bingham has been featured in the SciPride 2022 video collection at the Bell Museum. Spencer is a fourth-year MSE graduate student co-advised by Professors Alon McCormick and Lee Penn (Chemistry).
Leighton Group research uncovers new spintronic effect in aluminum
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May. 19 2022 -A recent publication from the Leighton Group in CEMS, appearing this week in Physical Review Letters, reports an unanticipated spintronic effect in the “simple” metal aluminum. In metals, it is well known that the spin lifetime and electron scattering time are related by a constant, known as the Elliott-Yafet constant.