The Center for Emergent Materials announces the latest round of Proto-IRG awards. Three new research projects were awarded, for a total investment of $350,000.

Congratulations to the following researchers on their new awards:

• Roberto Myers, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, “Thermal spintronics: materials for enhanced heat-spin interactions”
• Michael Poirier, Department of Physics, “Functional dynamics of DNA scaffolded materials”
• Josh Goldberger, Department of Chemistry, “Band structure engineering on Si/Ge/Sn graphene analogues”

Please join us in congratulating the Best Poster Award winners from the 2010 OSU Materials Week Poster competition.

2010 OSU Materials Week was a great success, with over 330 participants representing OSU and 15 other universities, over a dozen industry collaborators, and several government labs. Many thanks to our Program Planning Committee, session coordinators, speakers, corporate sponsors, and participants for making this such a fun and informative conference.

A highlight again this year was the student poster sessions, where 80 research posters were presented by OSU students and postdoctoral researchers. On Wednesday, September 15, ten award winners were announced at the Materials Week luncheon. OSU President Gordon Gee joined the group and presented plaques and Barnes and Noble gift cards to each of the ten winners, listed below. Congratulations to the ten students, their advisors, and colleagues on an excellent presentation of your research.

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Honda recently announced the winners of the first iDream Student Challenge at the 2010 Honda Initiation Grant Technical Horizon Symposium in Columbus, Ohio. With a focus on technologies that advance the quality of human life, the iDream Student Challenge is a scholarship program designed to inspire new thinking to everyday challenges and foster a spirit of innovation among the leaders of tomorrow.

This year’s competition included 19 teams of Ohio State science and engineering students whose projects offered creative engineering solutions and innovative technologies in one of three categories: electronics, mobility and materials. A total of $60,000 was awarded to the top three teams in each category as well as to the viewer’s choice winner, a team chosen via online voting. Five MSE students won a total of $14,000 prizes for their projects submitted to the iDream Student Challenge in Material Category.

Under the mentoring of Nitin Padture, one of the CEM supported REU students, Kelvin Hux and his teammate’s participanting project won the 1st place with $8,000 prize.  Continue reading →