Eleven new research projects were awarded by the IMR in December 2011, for a total investment of $22,000 in nascent materials research. The eleven projects support faculty researchers from seven departments within the College of Engineering, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, and the Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Congratulations to the OSU research teams receiving Fall 2011 …
2012-2013 OSU Materials Seed Grant Program – RFP Now Available
Letters of intent are now being accepted for the 2012-2013 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. Letters of intent are due March 19, 2012 and full proposals are due April 16, 2012. For full proposal preparation instructions for all three funding tiers, see the RFP linked below. Click here for the 2012-2013 Request for Proposals Click here for a full listing …
OSU Annual Celebration of Research
The OSU Office of Research is sponsoring the annual Celebration of Research this month, with several events and workshops geared to OSU researchers, research staff, and research administrators. On Tuesday, November 8th, two events of note will be held at the Ohio Union: State of Research Address by Vice President for Research Caroline Whitacre Caroline Whitacre, vice president for research …
2011 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Awards
This Winter, the new OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program was established as an enhanced seed program unifying the primary internal research funding opportunities offered by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), the Center for Electronic and Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials (ENCOMM), and the Institute for Materials Research (IMR). The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides three distinct …
New IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
Steven Ringel, IMR Director and professor and Neal A. Smith Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering, is co-founder of a new scholarly journal, the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. The journal was created in response to the rapid expansion of research in the science, engineering and technology of solar cells materials, devices and systems. The peer-reviewed, archival publication will report original and …
2011 Ohio Innovation Summit – April 19 and 20
The 2011 Ohio Innovation Summit is coming soon and the full conference schedule is now available online: http://www.ohioinnovationsummit.org/2011/agenda.shtml This year’s Summit will be in Toledo on April 19 and 20, and the theme is “Returning to Ohio’s Material Roots.” Highlights include: Concurrent sessions in a variety of topics Photovoltaics Biomedical Materials Polymers Electronic and Device Materials Bio-based Products Aerospace …
IMR Awards 7 New Facility Grants
The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) awarded seven new research projects in April 2011, for a total investment of $14,000. These IMR Facility Grants support the work of faculty from eight departments within the College of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, and the Division of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. IMR Facility Grants provide up to $2,000 to assist OSU faculty …
Yiying Wu Named 6th Top Materials Scientist of the Past Decade
Yiying Wu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and IMR Faculty Science Advisory Committee member, was recently ranked number 6 worldwide on the Times Higher Education “Top Materials Scientists of the Past Decade.” This list, published in February 2011, ranks the top 100 materials scientists based on Thompson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators measurement of the impact of each scientist’s published works from …
New OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program Announced
An exciting new seed grant program available to the OSU materials community was announced this week, opening a range of research funding options to materials-allied researchers on campus. The OSU Materials Research Grant Program is an enhanced seed program which leverages resources and best practices from the seed programs of the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), the Center for Electric and Magnetic …
IMR/SSEP Seminar: Adrian Hierro, February 3
The Institute for Materials Research and the Solid State Electronics and Photonics (SSEP) Seminar Series jointly present Oxide-based UV Photodetection Adrian Hierro, Associate Director, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:30 PM, 260 Dreese Laboratories This talk is part of a newly formed international partnership between the OSU Institute for Materials Research and the …