Thursday, February 21, 2008Volume 8, Issue 1
Materials Day 2008
Mark your calendar
Monday, April 14, 2008, 10:30 a.m. - 7:000 p.m.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
For more information go to: http://www.mri.psu.edu/Events/MaterialsDay/2008/index.asp
Faculty Spotlight
Building Virtual Bridges across the Borders of Science
Coray Colina, associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering; co-director, Center for the Study of Polymeric Systems
Prof. Coray Colina embodies the transnational and multidisciplinary nature of modern research. A chemical engineer by training in her native Venezuela, a petroleum engineer for industry, a Ph.D. in polymers at North Carolina State, post doctoral research in biochemistry at UNC Chapel Hill, and now using computational methods to study materials as an associate professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Penn State, she looks at scientific puzzles from many perspectives and encourages her students to embrace a cross-disciplinary and internationalist approach in their style of research.
Staff Spotlight - John Cantolina
In the MCL’s Electron Microscopy Lab
In the Electron Microscopy Lab on the ground floor of Hosler Building, research technician John Cantolina oversees three scanning electron microscopes (SEM), part of the user facilities of the Materials Characterization Laboratory. Along with several other pieces of analytical equipment under the supervision of lab manager Mark Angelone, the SEMs are powerful tools for probing the micro- and nanoscale properties of materials.
News of Note
National Science Foundation Requests $6.85 Billion for Fiscal Year 2009
Says Increase is vital to advancing science and maintaining global leadership
National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden L. Bement Jr. has presented the agency's proposed $6.85 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2009, a 13 percent increase over its actual FY 2008 budget. The additional $822.10 million would increase funding for agency programs that advance the frontiers of research and education in science and engineering.
Grants and Contracts
Materials research accounted for more than $10.5 million in contracts and grants for the months of December and 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.
- Castleman Jr, Albert W; Sen, Ayusman; Weiss, Paul S; Superatoms as Building Blocks of New Materials; U.S. Department of the Army
- Keating, Christine D; Barcoded Nanowires for Multiplexed Clinical Diagnostics; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Keating, Christine D; Model cytoplasm: From fundamentals to asymmetric division of cytomimetic vesicles; National Science Foundation
- 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; U.S. Department of the Navy
- Lanagan, Michael; Zhang, Qiming; Randall, Clive A; Shrout, Thomas R; Wang, Qian; Unconventional Dielectric Materials and Structures for Ultra-High Performance Pulsed Power Capacitors; U.S. Department of the Navy
- Shrout, Thomas R; Randall, Clive A; High Performance, High Temperature Perovskite Piezoelectrics; U.S. Department of the Navy
- Singh, Jogender; Kulkarni, Anil K; Design and Development of Advanced Gas-Impermeable High-Temperature Tubing for CMC Heat Exchanger Applications by Ion Assisted, High Energy Electron Beam-Physical Vapor Deposition; National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Tittmann, Bernhard R; Multi-energy processing for biofuels production; Industry
- Winograd, Nicholas; Molecular Imaging of Biomaterials - Single Cells; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Winograd, Nicholas; Surface Chemistry Studies with Ion Beams and Lasers; National Science Foundation
- Yetter, Richard A; Kuo, Kenneth K; Yang, Vigor; Allara, David L; A Unified Multiscale Approach for Nano-Engineered Energetic Materials; U.S. Department of the Army.
For a complete list of the contracts and grants for December and January go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/awards.asp?awardperiod=0801
Seminars
Thursday, March 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 117 Osmond Bldg.
"From Micro- to Nanoelectronics"
Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Thursday, March 20, 2008
11:15 AM - 26 Hosler Building
"Exploiting Molecular Interactions at Surfaces in Nano Device Functions"
Dawn Bonnell, Trustee Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director Nano/Bio Interface Center, University of Pennsylvania
Series - Distinguished Lecture Series 2008
For a complete list of upcoming materials-related seminars go to: http://www.mri.psu.edu/seminars.asp
