This year Columbus Business First has named the CEM Associate Director, Prof. Jessica Winter from the OSU departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, as one of the 20 People to Know in Technology in the region! Please join us in congratulating Prof. Winter in this achievement. You can read more about this distinction and see her interview here.
Do you have an idea for an outreach program? Funding is available from ICAM
ICAM announces the availability of $20,000 for SEE (Science, Engagement, and Education) Outreach Grants
ICAM is looking for SEE projects that will increase the greater public’s understanding of emergent phenomenon and the origins of complex behavior; and encourage science engagement between the research community (especially graduate students) and schools, museums, and the public at large.
$20,000 of funding will be split between 2 or 3 SEE grants.
CEM co-sponsors OSU’s ICAM membership, so CEM participants are eligible to apply.
2014 Seed Grant Program RFP Now Available
CEM is pleased to announce the 2014 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Request for Proposals is now available. This internal seed grant program is open to The Ohio State University materials community and offers two Funding Tiers to cover the breadth of materials research at OSU.
click here for the 2014 RFP with full details and instructions
The two Funding Tiers of the 2014 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program are:
- Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants, which provide funds up to $60,000/year per award in direct costs, and require one PI and one Co-PI, and may have unfunded collaborators, with the goal of forming multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities.
- Exploratory Materials Research Grants, which provide funds up to $40,000/year per award in direct costs, and require one PI, and may have Co-PIs and/or unfunded collaborators, with the goal of enabling nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding.
Emily Lakdawalla: “Speak Your Science- How to Give a Better Presentation”
In September, Emily Lakdwalla from The Planetary Society visited OSU and gave a talk on giving better presentations, scientific or otherwise. If you were unable to attend the colloquium her full presentation is now available on YouTube. For more information about Emily and her work, please visit The Planetary Society website.
Abstract: Bad presentation often gets in the way of great science. Professional meetings are an opportunity for scientists to communicate with potential collaborators, employers, or funders about their exciting work. Unfortunately, many people squander their opportunities in the spotlight by delivering confusing, boring, or just plain bad presentations. I’ll provide guidelines on how to prepare a conference talk that will educate and perhaps even entertain, whether your audience is one of skeptical peers or the general public. Much of the advice also applies to writing about your science.
CEM Researchers’ Theory First to Explain Phenomenon
Researchers Offer Explanation for Strange Magnetic Behavior at Semiconductor Interfaces
Discovery Could One Day Lead to Electronic Materials that Provide Both Computation and Data Storage
COLUMBUS, Ohio—They’re not exactly the peanut butter and jelly of semiconductors, but when you put them together, something magical happens.
Alone, neither lanthanum aluminate nor strontium titanate exhibit any particularly notable properties. But when they are layered together, they become not only conductive, but also magnetic.
In the current online edition of Nature Physics, researchers at The Ohio State University report the first-ever theoretical explanation to be offered for this phenomenon since it was discovered in 2004.
Understanding how these two semiconductors interact at their interface could someday lead to a different kind of material—one that provides a single platform for computation and data storage, said Mohit Randeria, co-author of the paper and professor of physics at Ohio State.
“The whole question is, how can you take two materials which do not conduct electricity and do not have magnetic properties, make a sandwich out of them and—lo and behold—at the interface tween them, charge begins to flow and interesting magnetic effects happen?” he said.