The Annual Millennium Café PPG Elevator Pitch Competition, sponsored by PPG Industries, is an opportunity for graduate students to pitch their research ideas in two minutes or less.
On Wednesday, October 13, 2021, at 11 am, the Director of the Materials Research Institute, Clive Randall, presents the previous year's highlights and overview of the Materials Research Institute during the Materials Day 2021 event.
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Meet the artists Jonathan Rockford and Michael Hadley of { Encoded Objects } as they reveal their creation “Macroscope” and uncover their inspiration … Penn State’s Materials Research Institute.
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While he had a significant impact as a
researcher, Elburt Osborn also made his
mark at Penn State in research leadership,
promoting an interdisciplinary approach.
A. Welford (Will) Castleman Jr. joined the Penn State chemistry department in 1982. Castleman is perhaps best known for discovering conditions where a “columbic explosion” induced clusters of atoms that mimicking some of the properties of other elements.
Pauline Beery Mack was a brilliant interdisciplinary scientist and educator at Penn State between 1919 and 1950. She was the first woman to gain a doctoral degree at Penn State, awarded in Agricultural Biochemistry (1932). She made numerous scientific contributions; these included textile research, where she and her team developed standardization of dyes and dry-cleaning.
Thomas E. Mallouk and his research group were among the first to connect the fields of solid state and molecular chemistry through their molecules-to-materials approach. Their work formed the materials synthesis nucleus of the Penn State MRSEC, founded in 1999.