The Upper Arlington High School Science Fair is in need of judges. The fair is 2/26/16 from 4-6 pm in the Learning Center. Please contact Wendy Pinta (wpinta@uaschools.org) to volunteer your expertise by 2/15.
Director P. Chris Hammel Elected to AAAS Physics Section
CEM congratulates Director P. C
hris Hammel on his election to the Physics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His term on the Physics Electorate Nominating Committee will begin February, 2016.
CEM at Columbus City Schools’ Innis Elementary for Annual “Science Day”
This w
eek the CEM mobilized a total of 45 volunteers to go to Innis Elementary school in Columbus, Ohio, including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff. About 450 students benefited from the program, with such demos as Energy Bike, Crystalline Snowflakes, Chemistry Show, Helicopters and Autorotation, How Does My Computer Work, and many others.
The program PI is CEM professor Nandini Trivedi (IRG-1), with staff support by Michelle McCombs and Erin Rinehart, and onsite coordination by Innis Elementary Teacher Theresa Barber.
CEM Internship Opportunities: HGST, Lake Shore, Traycer
The Center for Emergent Materials: an NSF MRSEC is facilitating matches between potential internship opportunities and our industry partners. These internships could take place any term, but most likely would occur over the summer term and are open to undergraduate and graduate students. The three potential partners include: HGST, Lake Shore Cryotronics, and Traycer (details below). Interested CEM students should forward resumes or CVs to Associate Director Jessica Winter (winter.63@osu.edu).
- HGST- An unmatched reputation for product quality and reliability; offering award-winning enterprise optimization software and a broad portfolio of innovative, high-quality hard disk and solid state drives that store, manage and protect the world’s data. Our intelligent storage solutions are trusted by enterprises, Internet companies, consumers and creative professionals to store and manage their data efficiently and securely.
- Lake Shore Cryotronics- Leading researchers around the world trust Lake Shore for measurement and control solutions that drive the discovery and development of new materials for tomorrow’s technologies. In electronics, clean energy, nanotechnology, and many other applications, Lake Shore provides the products and systems needed for precise measurements over a broad range of temperature and magnetic field conditions.
- Traycer- Despite a plethora of applications having been demonstrated in the laboratory environment in the Terahertz (THz) region of light, only incremental adoption of such technology has found its way to the commercial marketplace. Innovative technology is required to fully exploit THz light and create a thriving THz industry. Our team is dedicated to providing unique solutions to realize THz applications in non-contact, non-destructive quality control, and providing images of materials not visible to the naked eye.
CEM Assoc. Director Winter Featured: Professor survives cancer, searches for solutions
CEM Associate Director, Dr. Jessica Winter, was recently featured Ohio State University’s paper, The Lantern, as a survivor and researcher for breast cancer.
“You might be working on a very important problem, but if all you ever do is publish papers that the same 10 people read and argued about, are you really helping cancer patients?” Winter said. “My paper does not translate into any product that’s helping anyone — there is a gap between the information we have and how it can be used in a therapeutic way. So I’m saying let’s bridge the gap.”
Read the article in its entirety, “Professor survives cancer, searches for solutions.”