The CEM presented the first Team Science Award for the Outstanding Project in interdisciplinary science related to physics, engineering, materials science and electronics to Mr. David Mehrle and Mr. Michael Huntley from Upper Arlington High School.  The award, a $250 Amazon gift card and plaque to each team member, was presented to these two 12^th graders, for their work on the project titled “Hydrogen Gas Production in Response to Varying Incident Power of Light Using GaN Nanowires as a Working Electrode.”.  Their faculty advisor is Prof. Roberto Myers.

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is proud to announce the following CEM International Internship Grants:

Awardee: Alexanne Holcombe
Advisor: Patricia Morris, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Partner Institution: Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany

Awardee: Mitchell Rutkowski
Advisor: Len Brillson, Electrical and Computer and Engineering (ECE)
Partner Institution: University of Tokyo, Japan

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is proud to announce the following Seed Project Grants (2009-2010), totaling $123,000 in direct costs:

“Towards Room Temperature Spin-Injection/Detection in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors”
PI: Asst. Prof. Roberto Myers, Department of Materials Science & Engineering

“Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Manipulation”
PI: Asst. Prof. Jessica Winter, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Co-PI: Prof. R. Sooryakumar, Department of Physics

Renewal of “Heterogeneous Magnetic Particles for Force and Torque Sensing: A New Approach for Single Molecule Biology”
PI: Asst. Prof. Michael Poirier, Department of Physics

Renewal of “Microstructured Polymer Nanofibers for Skeletal Muscle Restoration”
PI: Asst. Prof. Yi Zhao, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Please join us in congratulating Profs. Myers, Poirier, and Zhao, and welcoming Profs. Winter and Sooryakumar to the CEM community.