Events & News:
2025 Annual Meeting: May 27-29, 2025
We are excited to once again host our Annual Meeting. Stay tuned for more details. Registration will open in April.
IPRIME in the News
- IPRIME Mid-Year Workshop Explores Materials Design for Biomedical Applications. Read about this exciting event!
- Zachary McAlister (PhD student in Joe Zasadzinksi's research group, Nanostructural Materials and Processes) won the 2025 Minnesota Crucible Prize. Learn about all the winners!
- Natalie Boehnke's (Data Driven Discovery & Design Research Program Area) research group found new insights into nanoparticle delivery.
- Natalie Boehnke (Data Driven Discovery & Design Research Program Area) received the NSF CAREER Award.
- Xiang Cheng (Coating Process Fundamentals Research Program Area) co-authored a paper with new insights into bacterial rectification.
- Third-year PhD Student, Yi-Ting Cheng (Chris Bartel's research group, Data Driven Discovery & Design Research Program Area) shared an interview regarding her first first-author paper, Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Redox Chemistry of Li₂MnP₂S₆, a Candidate High-Voltage Cathode Material.
- Michelle Calabrese (Microstructured Polymers Research Program Area) received the 2025 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences.
- CEMS Faculty Receive Rapid Response Seed Grant from UMN DSI (Data Driven Discovery & Design Research Program Area, Qi Zhang and Natalie Boehnke; Nanostructured Materials and Processes, Lynn Walker).
- University of Minnesota earns top spot in global Interdisciplinary Science Rankings
- CEMS Postdoc Emily McGuinness (Chris Ellison's research group; Microstructured Polymers Research Program Area and Vivian Ferry's research group; Optoelectronics and Metamaterials Program) awarded L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Fellowship
- CEMS Department Head Kevin Dorfman (Microstructured Polymers Research Program Area) delivers Vaughan lecture at Caltech.
- Professor Emerti Chris Macosko (long-time Faculty Director of IPRIME) provides the Chris & Kathleen Macosko Fellowship from crowdfunding campaign for two first-year graduate students in 2024.
- CEMS PhD Student Zachary McAllister (Joe Zasadzinki's research group; Nanostructural Materials and Processes Research Program Area) wins "Most Stunning" Award in National Image Contest.
- Tim Lodge (Microstructured Polymers Research Program Area) named to National Academy of Engineering.
- Prodromos Daoutidis (Data Driven Discovery & Design Research Program Area) will serve as the director of a new training program titled Data-Driven Discovery and Engineering from Atoms to Processes (3DEAP).
- CEMS PhD Student Ben Magruder (Kevin Dorfman's research group; Microstructured Polymers Research Program Area) wins Amelar-Lodge Fellowship.
- IPRIME names Chris Ellison as new faculty director.