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• December 5, 2001: Beth Carroll, our undergraduate student, was
awarded an UMRI AWARD FROM THE MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY (MRS). This award will
support her undergraduate research. She will be required to present her results
at the 2002 Spring MRS meeting in San Francisco.
• November 27, 2001:
The MRS Fall Meeting 2001
Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel
November 26-30, Boston, MA
Svetlana Dimovski, our graduate student, was awarded THE MRS BEST POSTER AWARD.
This is the third Best Poster award for Svetlana in 2001. For more infomation
visit MRS Website.
• November 14, 2001: Sascha Welz received THIRD PLACE in the INTERNATIONAL
METALLOGRAPHIC COMPETITION (IMC) for his poster titled, "Transformation of
Nanocrystalline Diamond to Graphite."
• September 30, 2001: NMG students have been awarded prestigious
fellowships from Drexel University.
Nevin Naguib: KOERNER FELLOWSHIP.
Thomas Juliano: GEORGE HILL JR FELLOWSHIP
These fellowships will provide financial support for Nevin and Tomas for the
entire Academic Year 2001-2002.
• June 19, 2001: The work of Sascha Welz together with Daniel Ersoy, a former
UIC student, titled "Conversion of Silicon Carbide to Diamond to Produce Dynamic
Seals with Superior Properties" has been selected by the National Inventors Hall
of Fame as a WINNER of the 2001 COLLEGIATE INVENTORS COMPETITION. The
winning student team receives a $20,000 cash prize and a $2,000 gift certificate
to www.hpshopping.com. In September
2001, winners and their advisors (Yury Gogotsi and Michael J. McNallan) will
travel to Akron, Ohio as special guests of The National Inventors Hall of Fame.
At that time, they will be given the opportunity to meet the inductees to the
National Inventors Hall of Fame. The Collegiate Inventors Competition winners
will receive their awards at a special dinner given in their honor on Friday,
September 14, 2001 as well as be showcased alongside inductees during the
National Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, September 15.
• June 19, 2001: Nevin Naguib has been named a NATIONAL COLLEGIATE AWARD WINNER
in MATERIALS ENGINEERING. This prestigious honor, which only very few students
are able to attain, is given by the United States Achievement Academy and is
open to the US citizens.
• May 17, 2001: Prof. Yury Gogotsi's paper "Conversion of Silicon Carbide
into Crystalline Diamond-structured Carbon at Ambient Pressure" has appeared in
the NATURE magazine, vol. 411, 2001, pp. 283-287.
Coverage in media:
WB 17 - TV News
Philadelphia Inquirer
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
BBC radio
Chemical & Engineering News
Yahoo!Finance
l'Ansa (Italy)
WHYY Radio
National Public Radio (NPR)
Inside R&D Magazine
Chemistry & Industry (UK magazine)
Liberation (French daily newspaper)
• May 1, 2001: Drexel and MCP Hahnemann Universities Third Annual Research
Day
Philadelphia, PA
Nevin Naguib, Yury Gogotsi, and Joseph Libera, "In Situ Chemical Experiments in
Carbon Nanotube" won BEST POSTER AWARD.
Svetlana Dimovski, Yury Gogotsi, and Joseph Libera, "A New Class of Conical
Graphite Nanocrystals" won BEST POSTER AWARD.
Svetlana Dimovski, Richard Knight, and Thomas Twardowski, "Thermal Spraying of
Amorphous Matrix Polymer/Silica Nanocomposites" won BEST POSTER AWARD.
• April 22, 2001: American Ceramic Society 103rd Annual Meeting and
Exposition
Indianapolis, IN
Daibin Ge, Nina Orlovskaya, Yury Gogotsi, and Alan Nicholls, "Domain Walls in
LaCoO3 Perovskite" won 1st PLACE in TEM Category.
Nina Gonzalez, Nina Orlovskaya, and Yury Gogotsi, "Indentation Induced
Deformation in LaCoO3 Perovskite" won 2nd PLACE in Undergraduate Category.
• April 4, 2001: Chicago/Milwaukee Local Chapter of the American Ceramic
Society Meeting, Argonne, IL
Sascha Welz, Yury Gogotsi, and Michael McNallan, "TEM study of diamond
structures produced by high-temperature chlorination of SiC" won BEST POSTER
AWARD
• March, 2001: Vladislav Domnich has been included in WHO'S WHO AMONG
STUDENTS IN AMERICA'S UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. Only 0.5% of the students in
American universities and colleges are honored in Who's Who. This annual award
is given to outstanding campus leaders for their scholastic and community
achievement.
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