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 12th 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.
Researchers Advance Toward Hybrid Spintronic Computer Chips
“Researchers at the Center for Emergent Materials have created the first electronic circuit to merge traditional inorganic semiconductors with organic “spintronics” – devices that utilize the spin of electrons to read, write and manipulate data. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, assistant professor of physics, and his team combined an inorganic semiconductor with a unique plastic material that is under development in colleague Arthur J. Epstein’s lab at Ohio State University.” Their results are published in the current issue of “Physical Review Letters”.
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OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program (2011-12)
We are pleased to announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program (2011-12), open to the Ohio State University (OSU) Materials community. This enhanced seed program leverages resources and best practices from the seed programs of the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), ENCOMM, and Institute for Materials Research (IMR). The result is a unified RFP with three Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding excellence in materials research of varying scopes.
March 10, 3:30-4:30pm: CEM to host “What can I do with a PhD?” panel discussion for undergraduate and graduate students
The Center for Emergent Materials is hosting a “What can I do with a PhD?” panel discussion for the OSU Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, STEM, undergraduate and graduate students on Thursday, March 10, 3:30 – 4:30 in 4138 Physics Research Building.
The panel will consist of speakers from national research laboratories, industry and small businesses. Representatives will be Dr. Daniel Miracle, AFRL: Air Force Research Laboratory; Dr. Chantal Sudbrack, NASA Glenn; Dr. Eric Ott, GE Aviation, and Dr. Paul Dymerski; Applied Biomolecular Technologies, Inc. The speakers will share their experiences and answer questions from the audience.
We are requesting that if you plan to attend and have specific questions for the panel that you email them to Ada Shi at: shi.106@buckeyemail.osu.edu before Tuesday, March 8, so she can get them to the speakers before Thursday. Emailing questions ahead of time will help the speakers know what the audience is looking for as well as keep the discussion moving forward.
A flyer for the panel can be downloaded here.
Please RSVP to Jakki Vaughn at: vaughn.132@osu.edu
CEM offers two Industry Internships at entrotech, inc
CEM is sponsoring two Industry Internships at entrotech, inc for graduate students starting Spring or Summer 2011. If interested please forward your resume/CV to Michelle McCombs (mccombs.75@mps.ohio-state.edu) by February 28th.