NMG Members Win Numerous Awards in 2012-2013 School Year

Nanomaterials Group members collected an impressive number of awards throughout the 2012-2013 school year. The following is an incomplete list documenting some of these achievements.

American Ceramic Society Ross Coffin Purdy Award
For “most valuable contribution to ceramic technical literature during the calendar year.”

  • Michael Naguib Abdelmalak, Volker Presser, Yury Gogotsi, Michel Barsoum, Olha Mashtalir, Joshua Carle, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman for “Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides” published in ACS Nano, Vol 6, No. 2, 1322-1331, 2012
Ross Coffin Purdy Award Winners
President of the American Ceramic Society Richard Brow (left) with Ross Coffin Purdy Award Winners (left to right) Dr. Michel Barsoum; Dr. Yury Gogotsi; Olha Mashtalir; Michael Naguib

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  • Kelsey Hatzell and Amanda Pentecost

Materials Research Society Awards

  • MRS Fall Meeting Graduate Student Silver Award: Kristy Jost & Riju Singhal
  • MRS Fall Meeting Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award: Kristy Jost

Drexel Outstanding Dissertation Award

  • Riju Singhal

2013 Student Life Awards

  • Dean J. Peterson Ryder Award for Seniors: Travis Longenbach

2013 Doctoral Research Excellence Awards

  • Highly Commended: John “Jake” McDonough
NMG Members Win Numerous Awards in 2012-2013 School Year