Wednesday, March 16, 2005Volume 5, Issue 2
Materials Day 2005
Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
IST Building & Applied Sciences Building
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
HUB-Robeson Center
Schedule of Events:
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - An industry oriented table-top exhibition, a reception and a keynote presentation. A variety of companies will be invited to participate in the table-top exhibition.
- 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Industry Reception and Table-top Exhibition (IST Building - Atrium)
- 6:45 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Keynote Presentation (Applied Sciences Building - Auditorum)
- Biomimetics in Product Engineering Design, John Pietrzyk, Biomimetic Connections, Inc.
Thursday, April 14, 2005 - Penn State faculty, staff, students and industry will gather to participate in plenary lectures from federal government & industry leaders on future material needs, and participate in an interactive poster session on Penn State research programs.
- 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m., Informal Poster Session (Alumni Hall)
- 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Invited Presentations (Auditorium)
- Making Materials Matter, Toni Grobstein Marechaux, The National Academies
- Innovative Material Challenges, Dave Diehl, PPG
- Semiconductor Materials, Laura Rea, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Advanced Biophotonics: Frontiers in Environmental Sensing and Health Protection, Tuan Vo-Dihn, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Interactive Poster Session on Penn State Research Programs (Alumni Hall)
- 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Lunch (Alumni Hall)
- 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Invited Presentations and Student & Post-Doctorate Research Awards (Auditorium)
- Materials in Defense Electronics, Doug Adams, Northrop Grumman
- Materials for Ultrasound Imaging, Jie Chen, Philips Medical Systems
- Future Materials Needs, Murray Hirschbein, NASA
- 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Interactive Poster Session on Penn State Research Programs (Alumni Hall)
Important Deadlines and Dates:
- March 13, 2005 - Deadline for poster registration
- March 22, 2005 - Poster acceptance and final list of posters set.
- April 4, 2005 - Deadline for posters to be submitted for FREE printing
- April 7, 2005 - Deadline for event registration
For more information visit mri.psu.edu/events/materialsday
Poster Research Awards - deadline approaching
The MRI Student and Post-Doc Awards for outstanding accomplishments based on a published paper or thesis will be given out during the Materials Day Program on April 14th, 2005. Please take a moment to reflect on the students and post-docs in your area who might qualify. Poster awards are sponsored by industrial participation at Materials Day.
Nomination submission deadline for MRI Student and Post-Doc Awards is March 18, 2005
The criteria, eligibility requirements can be found at:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/ematerials/v05i01/Criteria.pdf
The nomination form can be found at:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/ematerials/v05i01/Nomination_form.pdf
NOW, is the right time to take a look and begin to put the package together.
37th ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting - MARM 05
May 22-25, 2005
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
- Organized by the North Jersey Section
- Symposia Tailored to the Region's Interests
- World-Class Speakers on Topics of National Significance
- Posters and Workshops Tied to Technical Sessions
- (Chemical Engineering Workshops) (Career Workshops)
- Vendor Exhibitions
- Attendance is Projected to Exceed 1500
For more information: www.marmacs.org
Contracts and Grants
Materials research accounted for more than $4.2 million in contracts and grants for the month of February. The largest of these contracts and grants (those greater than $150K) 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.
Chung, T C; Investigation of New Isotactic Polypropylene (PP) and Syndiotactic Polystrene (s-PS) Materials for high pulsed power capacitors, U.S. Department of the Navy
Dillon, Gregory P; Integrated Analysis Tools for Determination of Structural Integrity and Durability of High Temperature Polymer Matrix Composites, U.S. Department of the Air Force
Kuo, Kenneth K; Yetter, Richard A; Yang, Vigor; Costanzo, Francesco; Fundamental Understanding of Propellant/Nozzle Interaction to Mitigate Erosion for Very High Pressure Propellant Applications - MURI, U.S. Department of the Navy
Semouchkina, Elena A.; ADVANCE Fellows Award: Materials Integration Concepts for Electronic and Photonic Devices, National Science Foundation
Siedlecki, Christopher A; Surface Engineering in Contact Activation of Coagulation, Industry
Smid, Ivica; Tough-Coated Hard Powders (TCHP) Process Control via Consolidation, Sintered Properties, and Tool Testing, Industry
Snyder, David W; Fanton, Mark A; Expansion Proposal - Multifunctional Oxide Films for Advanced Multifunction RF Systems, U.S. Department of the Navy
Tittmann, Bernhard R; Development of Techniques of Precisely Measuring Temperature in Prssurized Pipes and Vessels, Industry
For a complete list of the contracts and grants for February go to: http://www.mri.psu.edu/awards.asp?awardperiod=0502
Funding Opportunities
- NSF - Partnerships for Innovation - limited submission (internal OVPR selection process) - Deadline: 4/1/2005
- DARPA - New Materials, Materials Concepts, Materials Processing and Devices
- NIH - Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory Solicitation of Nanotechnology Strategies for Cancer Research
Materials Seminars
Monday, March 21, 2005
12:00 PM - S5 Osmond Lab
"Synthesis and Design of Fluorescence Protein Based Affinity Binders"
Melik Demirel, Penn State University
Series - Center for Nanoscale Science
Thursday, March 24, 2005
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Water at Work: Molecular Aspects of Aqueous Processes through Cluster Spectroscopy"
Mark Johnson, Yale University
Series - Chemistry Colloquium
Thursday, March 31, 2005
12:30 PM - 102 Chemistry Building
"Self Healing Polymers"
Jeff Moore, University of Illinois
Series - Chemistry Colloquium
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
2:30 PM - 108 Tyson Laboratory
"Research Challenges in Process Systems Engineering: Product Discovery and Design, Enterprise and Supply Chain Optimization, Global Life Cycle Assessment"
Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Series - Chemical Engineering seminar
