Friday, February 8, 2002Volume 2, Issue 3
Director's Message
Materials Day at Penn State
April 15, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Ballroom - Nittany Lion Inn
Please mark your calendars and plan to attend this campus-wide event for the materials research community. All students, staff and faculty in materials are invited.
At this event, we will present MRI Student Awards (formerly Xerox Awards) for outstanding Ph.D., M.S., and B. S. Theses. We will also have a poster session where each materials research group at Penn State will have the opportunity to present a recent research highlight. And, we will distribute "Materials Researchers at Penn State", a brief summary of materials research activities for each group at Penn State. (We will contact you shortly about how you can contribute to this publication). More details will follow in future eMaterials issues and on the MRI website.
Regards,
Carlo Pantano
Faculty Contracts & Grants
Materials research accounted for nearly $4.6 million in contracts and grants for the month of January! The largest of these contracts and grants (those greater than $200K) 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.
Ewing, Andrew G; Allcock, Harry; Mallouk, Thomas; Sen, Ayusman; Zhang, Xumu; Acquisition of an X-ray Diffractometer, National Science Foundation
Roy, Rustum; Directed Energy Materials Processing: Microwave (and Hybrid) Systems, U.S. Department of the Navy
Winograd, Nicholas; Surface Chemistry Studies with Ion Beams and Lasers, National Science Foundation
Winograd, Nicholas; Molecular Imaging of Biomaterials -- Single Cells, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rusinko, Frank; Create a Consortium and Develop Premium Carbon Products from Coal, U.S. Department of Energy
New Funding Opportunities
The NSF Directorate for Education recently announced a $160M program on "Math and Science Partnership (MSP)" to strengthen and reform preK-12 education. The MSP builds on the nation's dedication to educational reform through support of partnerships that unite the efforts of local school districts with science, mathematics, engineering and education faculties of colleges and universities. Letters of Intent are due March 15, 2002. For more information go to http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02061/nsf02061.html#TOC
Materials Seminars
Friday, February 08, 2002Location: S5 Osmond LaboratoryTuesday, February 12, 2002
Title: Cluster Approaches to Solvation and Surface Chemistry
Speaker: Mark S. Gordon, Iowa University
Location: 22 Deike BldgTuesday, February 19, 2002
Title: Integrated Nanotechnologies - Putting Small Things to Work
Speaker: Terry Michalske, Sandia National Lab
Location: 22 Deike Bldg
Title: Replacement gate dielectrics for sub-100 nm CMOS devices: Achieving stability during high temperature processing
Speaker: Jon-Paul Maria - NC State
