Wednesday, September 19, 2001Volume 1, Issue 1
Director's Message
Welcome to eMaterials @ Penn State. The primary purpose of this information newsletter is to facilitate on-campus communication amongst faculty and staff engaged in materials research. Later, we will expand it to include post-docs and graduates, and perhaps off-campus partners and sponsors. We anticipate one or two newsletters per month to provide a snap-shot of useful and/or timely information, with links to the details. We are especially hopeful that the monthly listing of Faculty Contracts and Grants will better familiarize you with the activities of your colleagues, and will help catalyze new activities. Let us know at any time if you have suggestions or information you would like to announce.
Regards,
Carlo Pantano
Faculty Contracts & Grants
Materials research accounted for $5.1M in contracts and grants for the month of August 2001! The largest of these contracts and grants (those greater than $250K) are listed below, along with a link to the complete list of contracts and grants. These data are provided by OSPs Strategic Information Management System. We will provide this report each month to help familiarize our community with who we are and what we do.
Castleman, Albert W, Contributions to Elucidating Heterogeneous Chemistry Involving Ice Crystals and Aqueous Aerosols, National Science Foundation
Deb Roy, Tarasankar, A Transport Phenomena Based Approach to Probe Evolution of Weldment Macro and Microstructures, U.S. Department of Energy
Dickey, Elizabeth, X-Ray Diffractometer for Texture and Residual Stress Studies of Advanced Materials, University of Kentucky
Foley, Henry C; Vannice, M A; Castleman, Albert W; Eklund, Peter C; Crespi, Vincent H, Control of Nanostructures Via Metal-Carbon Interactions Over Multiple Length Scale Via Metal and Metal Carbide Nanojunctions and Nanowelds, National Science Foundation
Kumar, Sanat K, Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Polymer Miscibility in Confined Environments, National Science Foundation
Varadan, Vijay K, RF Saw Gyroscope Electronics & Signal Processing Unit, DSO National Laboratories
Announcements
New Faculty:
Elizabeth C. Dickey, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Email: Validate to view address
Web Page: http://www.matse.psu.edu/
**(atomic-level structure of interfaces....)
Craig Grimes, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering
Email: Validate to view address
Web Page: http://www.ee.psu.edu/faculty/grimes/grimes1.html
**(physical and chemical sensors....)
Seong H. Kim, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Email: Validate to view address
Web Page: http://fenske.che.psu.edu/Faculty/kim/
**(polymer nanostructures, nanoparticles....)
Tao L. Lowe, Assistant Professor, Surgery, The Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the Hershey Medical Center, College of Medicine
Email: Validate to view address
**(biodegradable polymers, drug delivery....)
Gerald D. Mahan, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Physics, Eberly College of Science
Email: Validate to view address
**(theory and simulation of material properties....)
Michael Vincent Pishko, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Email: Validate to view address
Web Page: http://fenske.che.psu.edu/Faculty/Pishko/index.html
**(biosensors, biomaterials, drug delivery....)
Jinwu Ye, Assistant Professor, Eberly College of Science
Email: Validate to view address
**(theory of correlated electronic systems....)
Jeffrey D. Zahn, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, College of Engineering
Email: Validate to view address
Web Page: http://www.engr.psu.edu/bio/zahn/Web%20Page/Zahn.htm
**(polymer MEMS, tissue engineering....)
Materials Seminars
Thursday, September 20, 2001Location: S5 OsmondTuesday, September 25, 2001
Title: Rates and Pathways of Vibrational Energy Flow at Surfaces
Speaker: John Tully, Yale University
Location: S5 OsmondTuesday, September 25, 2001
Title: TBA
Speaker: George Whitesides
Location: S5 Osmond
Title: Making Large and Small Molecules by Olefin Metathesis
Speaker: R. H. Grubbs
