More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities at Ohio State led by faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics: The National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center ($17.577 million) The National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NEXUS) within the Institute for Optical Science ($9.5 million) The facilities, which will be open to scientists everywhere, are a product …
7 projects awarded $300K through OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program
The Ohio State University this week announced seven innovative materials research projects will receive a total of $300,000 in funding through the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. The program seeds and advances excellence in materials research of varying scopes. It is jointly funded and managed by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) and Center …
Katrina Cornish receives BioEnvironmental Polymer Society Lifetime Achievement Award
Katrina Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), recently received the BioEnvironmental Polymer Society Lifetime Achievement Award for scientific excellence and impact in the field. The prestigious award recognizes science and engineering leaders who have made “outstanding contributions that have advanced the scientific field and/or …
Hat trick: Katrina Cornish receives 3 Innovator of the Year Awards
Institute for Materials Research faculty member Katrina Cornish received in quick succession three accolades for her impact in innovative research at The Ohio State University. Cornish, an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), received three Innovator of the Year awards between late April and mid …
Jung-Hyun Kim, industry partners receive nearly $2.5M DOE award to advance EV technology
Jung-Hyun Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received with partners Nexceris and Navitas a nearly $2.5-million grant from the Department of Energy to develop cathode materials for the next generation of electric vehicle batteries. The project, “Cobalt-free LNMTO spinel cathode materials,” is one of 42 research projects sponsored through the Department of Energy …
Ghalichechian earns NSF CAREER Award for next-gen millimeter wave communications
New research at The Ohio State University could help lead to a new generation of radio frequency devices capable of advancing space communications, smart phones and even self-driving cars. The point is about rethinking the entire design and make-up of the materials used to make such devices, from the ground up. For his efforts in this realm, …
Defense funding to enhance Engineering research capabilities
Materials Science and Engineering Professor David McComb and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Paul Berger earned federal grants for laboratory equipment useful in advancing national defense research. The Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced awards to 175 university researchers at 91 institutions in 36 states, totaling $53 million through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). The program augments …
Top 10 posters showcasing research at Ohio State awarded during 2018 OSU Materials Week
Click a thumbnail to view awardees with Ohio State Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce McPheron. More than a hundred student and postdoctoral researchers at The Ohio State University came together to share their work in materials-allied fields with researchers from across the country at a two-day series of poster sessions during 2018 OSU Materials Week, held May 8 to …
Ohio State researchers compete in Three Minute Thesis at 2018 OSU Materials Week
How much time would you need to explain your dissertation, from the painstakingly crafted proposal to collected data, findings, and conclusion? According to the University of Queensland, an 80,000-word thesis requires about nine hours to present. Master’s and doctoral students from The Ohio State University who took the stage May 8 during the opening of 2018 OSU Materials …
Defense-funded research will advance electronic materials, additive manufacturing
Engineering faculty representing several disciplines soon will receive Department of Defense (DoD) funding to accelerate important research and training of graduate students. The Ohio State College of Engineering research teams have received two of the 24 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards recently announced. Neal A. Smith Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Steven A. Ringel, Electrical and …