MSE News Archives 2004
Dawn Bonnell
to direct Penn's new NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
Penn is one of six institutions to to receive funding from
the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a new Nanoscale Science
and Engineering Center (NSEC). With the funding, Penn's Nano/Bio
Interface Center will bring together researchers from across campus
to study the intersection of technology and biology at the nanoscale
- or molecular - level. The Penn center, directed by Dawn Bonnell
from MSE, will receive $11.6 million over the next five years, renewable
for a second term for a total of approximately $23 million from
the NSF program, along with several million-dollar additional grants
from NSF and other government sources. [http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=677]
Shu Yang named
one of world's top young researchers by Technology Review
Shu Yang has been named to the 2004 list of the world's
100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, a publication of
the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The “TR100,” chosen by the
editors of Technology Review and an elite panel of judges, consists
of 100
individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has
a profound impact on today's world. [http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=674]
MSE
alum nominated for Secretary of the Army
President Bush has nominated Dr. Francis J. Harvey to be
the next secretary of the Army. Dr. Harvey, currently vice chairman
of Duratek, Inc., received his doctorate from the MSE department
under the guidance of Prof. Worrell.[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040915-6.html]
MSE
Researchers Spin Carbon Nanotubes into Usable Fibers
Dr. Fischer's group, in collaboration with Prof. Smalley's
group at Rice, report the first large-scale manufacture of fibers
composed solely of single-walled nanotubes in the Sept. 3 issue
of Science.[http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=667]
Wayne
Worrell receives one of Electrochemical Society’s highest
awards
Prof. Wayne Worrell is the recipient of the 2004 Edward
Goodrich Acheson Award established in 1928 for “distinguished
contributions to the advancement of any of the objects, purposes
or activities of The Electrochemical Society, Inc.” [http://www.electrochem.org/]
Search begins to fill new tenure
track MSE faculty positions
Openings are available
at all ranks for positions in Materials Physics and other areas.
MSE
department launches its new undergrad program in “Nanoscale
Materials Science and Engineering” in Fall 2004
Ferroelectric
Lithography: Science magazine Editor’s Choice
Dr. Bonnell’s research on Ferroelectric Lithography
(Advanced Materials. 16, 795 (2004)) was selected by the Editors
of Science as a highlight of the recent literature in Applied Physics.
[http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol304/issue5676/twil.shtml]
Dynamic tuning of liquids
on Si Nano-grass
Dr. Shu Yang’s research on the wetting of liquids on nanopatterned
Si surfaces (“nano-grass”) was featured on the cover
of Langmuir, the American Chemical Society Journal of Surfaces and
Colloids.
New
Production Technique May Let Scientists Fine-Tune Strength and Conductivity
of Nanotube-Laced Materials
Call
for white papers in anticipation of the continuation of the Technology
Development Program of the Nanotechnology Institute (NTI; co-director
Prof. Luzzi)
Shu
Yang receives 2004 German-American Frontiers of Engineering Award
from the National Academy of Engineering
Russ
Composto to co-organize MRS Spring ’05 Symposium on “Smart
Surfaces and Interfaces”
Shu
Yang to co-organize MRS Spring ’05 Symposium on “Biological
and Bio-inspired Materials and Devices”
William
Graham, receives 2004 Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising
MSE Class of 2004 Student
Awards
MSE
presentations at Spring 2004 Graduate Research Symposium
MSE Spring 2004 Open House for Freshmen
to announce New Curriculum
MSE
department welcomes their newest faculty member, Dr. Shu Yang, who
joins us as the Skirkanich Assistant Professor in Materials Science
and Engineering
Karen
Winey to co-organize Fall 2004 MRS Symposium on “Multicomponent
Polymer Systems – Phase Behavior, Dynamics, and Applications”
Charlie McMahon receives the 2004
Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award from the American
Society of Metals
Dawn Bonnell elected President American
Vacuum Society; elected to Governing Board American Institute of
Physics
Karen I. Winey elected Fellow of
the American Physical Society
Karen I Winey was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
for “exquisite application of electron microscopy and x-ray
scattering to the determination of the microstructure of polymers
and to the elucidating the role of microdomain geometry on polymer
properties”. [http://www.aps.org/fellowship/index.cfm]
David E. Luzzi, appointed
to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
I-Wei Chen, Vasek
Vitek, David Pope, Campbell Laird, all listed in most highly cited
author directory of Materials Science by the Institute of Scientific
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