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CEM and New Mexico Highlands Awarded PREM Funding from NSF

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CEM and New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) were recently awarded a Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant from the NSF. Prof. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin (IRG-2) is the co-PI. The objective of the PREM program is to broaden participation and enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating the development of long-term, multi-investigator research and education partnerships between minority-serving colleges/universities and NSF materials-related centers and facilities.

As part of the PREM, two new materials science courses will be designed at NMHU in collaboration with OSU. Multiple exchanges will take place during the course of the program, with CEM participants delivering guest lectures and seminars at NMHU, as well as multiple visits by NMHU students and faculty to conduct research or participate in the CEM Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) program. NSL facilities will be used directly and to provide expert advice to NMHU from NSL staff. Additionally, there will be a PREM Annual retreat alternating between Las Vegas, NM and Columbus, OH.

The Center looks forward to future research and collaboration in partnership with NMHU.

CEM Kicks Off 2015 Science Sunday Lecture Series, Hosts Dr. Jeff Childress (HGST)

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Science Sundays, a free lecture series open to the public, provides a wide range of current and emerging topics and issues in science that touch our everyday lives. Speakers are experts in their fields from on campus and around the world with experience in making their topics interesting and accessible for audiences of all ages, with or without a science background.

CEM kicked off this year’s program by hosting Dr. Jeff Childress, Research Director at HGST (a Western Digital company in San Jose, California). His talk, “Science and technology of data storage,” was widely attended at the Ohio Union and well-received. Childress articulated the needs and mechanics of data storage throughout our information age with hands-on hard drives, meaningful analogies and visual aids, history, humor, and science. The Science Sundays schedule is available at http://artsandsciences.osu.edu/research/science-sundays

2015 Seed Grants Awarded

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We are pleased to announce that after a thorough internal and external review process, 9 awards have been made to fund innovative and exciting materials research on campus through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program.  These awards total $420,000 in internal research funding to 15 OSU researchers in 5 departments. The program was able to fund 47% of the proposals submitted this year; 9 out of a total 19.

Congratulations to the nine research teams whose projects were selected this year for seed grant funding.

2015 Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants

Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants form multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities.  Three Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants were awarded this year:

  • DNA devices for probing nanoscale physics of fluids
    • Prof. Carlos Castro, Prof. Michael Poirier, Prof. Shaurya Prakash, Prof. Soheil Soghrati
  • Studies of dopant dynamics using microscopy at atomic length and femtosecond time scales
    • Prof. Jay Gupta, Prof. Enam Chowdhury
  • Skyrmions in Low-Dimensional Chiral Magnets
    • Prof. Mohit Randeria, Prof. Roland Kawakami, Dr. Sarah Dunsiger

2015 Exploratory Materials Research Grants

Exploratory Materials Research Grants enable nascent materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding.  Six Exploratory Materials Research Grants were awarded this year:

  • Investigating Crystallization Mechanisms of Microporous Materials Using Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
    • Prof. Nicholas Brunelli
  • First-principles study of dislocation core structures and properties in multi-principal-element alloys
    • Prof. Maryam Ghazisaeidi
  • Direct Imaging of Atomic Scale Electromagnetic Fields in Functional Materials
    • Prof. Jinwoo Hwang
  • Developing electrodes for hydrogen production based on robust biological catalysts
    • Prof. Hannah Shafaat
  • Exploration of the Anomalous Hall Effect at Terahertz Frequencies
    • Prof. Valdés Aguilar
  • Development of Epitaxial Film Growth of Group V-VI Topological Insulators by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
    • Prof. Fengyuan Yang

About the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program

The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides internal research funding opportunities through two distinct Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research of varying scopes.  The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program is jointly funded and managed by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM), and the Institute for Materials Research (IMR).