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Monday, April 22, 2002Volume 2, Issue 7

 

Director's Message

 

By all measures, the First Annual Materials Day was a resounding success. About 300 graduate students, faculty, staff and visitors from industry were in attendance to celebrate the presentation of the MRI 2002 Student Research Awards and to discuss the materials research summarized in 64 Poster Presentations.

 

I would like to invite all department chairs, center directors, college research offices and sponsors to consider co-scheduling/co-locating relevant events and award presentations at the next Materials Day (April 2003). This year, for example, the Carbon Research Center's Semi Annual Meeting overlapped with Materials Day, and so their industrial members were able to spend a couple hours obtaining a broader view of materials research at Penn State.

 

And I'd like to invite everyone to begin thinking about nominations for the 2003 MRI Student Research Awards. M.S. and Ph.D. graduates in Spring 2002, Summer 2002 and Fall 2002 are eligible for the 2003 Awards; in addition, senior projects/theses and summer REU projects completed in 2002 are eligible for the B.S. Awards in April 2003.

 

Thanks to all who contributed or participated in the First Annual Materials Day.

 

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Best Regards,
Carlo Pantano

World University Network

Advanced Materials Seminar by Teleconference

Friday, April 26, 2002
Time:  12 Noon
Location:  371 Willard
Title:  Electrochemical Deposition of Films with Regular Nanoarchitectures
Author:  P. N. Bartlett, Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton

This seminar is open to anyone that would like to participate.

 

To view the abstract go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/ematerials/v02i07/WUNAbstract.pdf

Reminder

Molecular and Chemical Nanofabrication Workshop:

"Bottom Up" Technologies

Monday, May 6, 2002

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Penn Stater Conference Center

 

Registrations are still being accepted. For more information on this workshop and registration go to: http://www.nanofab.psu.edu/events

ARCiNA - Austrian Research Centers in North America

Materials and Production Technology Center, State College, Pennsylvania

ARCiNA held an Inaugural Celebration on April 11th at the Penn Stater. The Austrian Research Center opened its first international branch office in State College, Pennsylvania. The purpose was to exchange technology and know how with companies in North America and to build collaborative research opportunities between North America and Europe. They choose State College in order to be in close proximity with Penn State. The celebration highlighted the expertise listed below and ended with a very nice Austrian Experience which included, wine tasting, Austrian foods and entertainment including the Austrian Ballet.

 

ARCiNA has expertise in:

 

For additional information on ARCiNA check out their web site http://www.arcina-research.com or contact Gunter Igler, US Operations Manager, Phone: (814) 861-5545, gigler@arcina-research.com

Faculty Contracts & Grants

Materials research accounted for more than $3.7 million in contracts and grants for the month of March! 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.

 

Collins, Robert; Novel Real Time Optics for Thin Film Materials Research, National Science Foundation

 

Messing, Gary; Basic Studies on Templated Grain Growth of Relaxor Ferroelectric Crystals & Textured Ceramics, U.S. Department of the Air Force

 

Varadan, Vasundara; NSF IPA Varadan, National Science Foundation

 

Zhang, Qiming; Electrostrictive Polymers for Advanced Sonar Transducers, U.S. Department of the Navy

 

Materials Seminars

Tuesday, April 23, 2002
Time:  4:00 PM
Location:  22 Deike Bldg
Title:  Block Copolymers: Designer Soft Materials
Speaker:  Frank Bates - University of Minnesota
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Time:  12:15 PM
Location:  S5 Osmond
Title:  Electroactive Surfaces for Controlling and Studying Cell Adhesion
Speaker:  Milan Mrksich, University of Chicago

New Funding Opportunities