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| July 21, 2006 - Dr. Hoa Lam, former IGERT trainee, and collaborators from Drexel University’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering including her Ph.D. advisor Dr. Frank Ko, Dr. Yury Gogotsi, and Dr. Haihui Ye, have received the Best Paper Award for the 2005 Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites (ASC) for their paper titled "Electrospinning of Submicron Polyacrylonitrile Fibers Containing Vapor Grown Carbon Nanofibers." The award will be presented at the ASC 2006 Technical Conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in September. This paper is related to Dr. Lam’s Ph.D. thesis, which she completed in 2004. She is now employed by DE Technologies, King of Prussia, PA. May 23, 2006 - What makes a good Ph.D. student? Click here to find out from Georgia Chenevix-Trench et al. April 14, 2006 - John Chmiola receives a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Joshua Freedman receives an Honorable Mention. Congratulations John and Joshua! March 15, 2006 - Michael Fischbein and his advisor, Maria Drndic, are featured in the current issue of Research @ Penn. This story was also featured on NanotechnologyNow.com. Click here to read more. Update March 29 - this work has received further coverage in IP Links "The leading innovation resourceof the greater Philadelphia region." Click here to see the story. February 17, 2006 - IGERT Fellow Mike Birnkrant won a $980 grant-in-aid of research from Sigma Xi for his research project titled "Top-down meets bottom-up: block copolymer Bragg reflectors." Congratulations, Mike! February 14, 2006 - Dr. Dawn Bonnell, IGERT program Co-Director, is the 2006 recipient of the Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. She will give a lecture on "Probing, manipulating, and exploiting nanostructures" Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:30 PM in the Wu & Chen Auditorium of Levine Hall at 3330 Walnut Street. A reception will follow. Congratulations, Dawn! August 2005 - IGERT Fellow Mike Birnkrant, advisor Chris Li and others published a paper in Soft Matter: Polymer crystallization/melting induced thermal switching in a series of holographically patterned Bragg reflectors. Christopher Y. Li, Michael J. Birnkrant, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Pamela F. Lloyd, Richard L. Sutherland, and Timothy J. Bunning, Soft Matter, 2005, 1, 238-242. IGERT Fellow Dan Johnston published a paper in Nature Materials: Electronic devices based on purified carbon nanotubes grown by high-pressure decomposition of carbon monoxide. Danvers E. Johnston, Mohammad F. Islam, Arjun G. Yodh, and Alan T. Johnson, Nature Materials 4, 589-592. Dan presented a poster on this project at the Gordon Research Conference on Condensed Matter Physics in June. The poster was titled "Electronic Devises Based on Purified HiPCO Carbon Nanotubes." May 2005 - IGERT Fellow Michael Fischbein and advisor Marija Drndic published a paper in Applied Physics Letters. CdSe nanocrystal quantum-dot memory. M.D. Fischbein and M. Drndic. Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 193106 (2005). IGERT fellows Derek Halverson and Nancy Zhou, Program Coordinator Holly Burnside, and Professor Yury Gogotsi attended the 2005 IGERT Project Meeting in Arlington, VA. April 2005 - IGERT Fellows Kris Behler and Derek Halverson receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. March 2005 - IGERT Fellow Dan Johnston and others published a paper in Applied Physics Letters: Controlled fabrication of nanogaps in ambient environment for molecular electronics. D. R. Strachan, D. E. Smith, D. E. Johnston, T.-H. Park, Michael J. Therien, D. A. Bonnell, and A. T. Johnson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 043109 (2005) IGERT Fellow Michael Fischbein, advisor Marija Drndic and others published a paper in Applied Physics Letters: Efficient polymer-nanocrystal quantum-dot photodetectors. Difei Qi, Michael Fischbein, Marija Drndic, and Sandra Selmic. Applied Physics Letters 86, 093103 (2005). Fischbein presented to talks at the American Physical Society: 1) Memory effects in CdSe semiconducting nanocrystal quantum dots, and 2) New devices for integrating controlled assembly, imaging and transport measurements of nanoscale structures. Additionally, Fishbein was the recipient of the Arnold M. Denenstein Prize from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2004-2005 academic year. December 21, 2004 - An article written by Katrin Cowan and Yury Gogotsi titled "The Drexel / UPenn IGERT: Creating a New Model for Graduate Education in Nanotechnology," Was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Materials Education. To read the article, click here. March 1, 2004 - IGERT Fellow Nevin Naguib, along with fellow PhD student Emily Ho, has been chosen to participate in the University of San Francisco's 2004 International Business Plan Competition. For the competition, they will present their venture plan, "Hy-Nano," April 1-3, 2004 in San Francisco, CA. For details, click here Jan 16, 2004 - IGERT Fellow Natalie Carroll won the Best Poster Award at the American Chemical Society Graduate Poster Session. She also won the Rohm and Hass company award for best overall poster. Congratulations, Natalie!
In
the October 2, 2003 issue of
Nature, the NSF-IGERT program and the Drexel/UPenn IGERT are
featured in an article on multidisciplinary education. "Nature"
interviewed IGERT fellow
Nevin Naguib
and PI Prof.
Gogotsi. Click
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