The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) announces the first talk in its 2009-2010 IMR Colloquia Series: Toward Higher Performance Permanent Magnets for Automotive Applications Kazuhiro Hono National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and University of Tsukuba Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:00 – 10:00 AM (light reception to follow) E100 Scott Laboratory 201 West 19th Avenue For a full abstract …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Hendrik Verweij
Hendrik (Henk) Verweij joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at The Ohio State University in March 2001, and was appointed as the Orton Chair in Ceramic Engineering. Before that he was Professor of the Inorganic Materials Science group in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Twente in the Netherlands for 9 years. Dr. Verweij …
IMR Materials Week: Student Poster Session Award Winners
2009 IMR Materials Week brought together over 250 attendees, including representatives from 14 different universities and 12 industry collaborators. The ending to this exciting week of shared discoveries was a luncheon where we announced the six winners of this year’s “Best Student Poster Award.” The award winners were selected from 2 different poster sessions, a Materials Research Student Poster Session and the …
IMR Shuttle Service Cancelled During Materials Week
IMR SHUTTLE SERVICE CANCELLED Due to the 2009 Materials Week conference and the Labor Day holiday, the IMR Shuttle Van will NOT be running Monday, August 31st through Monday, September 7th. We will resume our normal shuttle schedule on Tuesday, September 8th.
FY2010 IMR Facility Grants RFP Released
The OSU Institute for Materials Research (IMR) has released a Request for Proposals for our FY2010 Facility Grants competitions. IMR Facility Grants are awarded at $2,000 each for 12-month project periods, to assist OSU researchers with facility user access fees and related minor charges. This fiscal year, IMR will again hold two rounds of Facility Grants competitions with deadlines of October …
2009 Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants (IMRGs) Awards
IMR’s Research Enhancement Program provides different funding mechanisms to support novel research at The Ohio State University. Five new research projects were awarded by the IMR in June 2009, for a total investment of $225,000. Metamaterials with Smart Reconfiguration for Broadband RF Antennas Lead: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicants: Suresh Babu, Industrial Systems Engineering; John Volakis, …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Claudia Turro
Claudia Turro has been an Ohio State faculty member in the Department of Chemistry since 1996. She worked with Daniel G. Nocera and George E. Leroi at Michigan State University and received her Ph.D. in 1992. She was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue postdoctoral work at Columbia University with Nicholas J. Turro …
Facility Grants Awards, Spring 2009
Eight new research projects were awarded by the IMR in May 2009, for a total investment of $16,000. The eight projects support 10 faculty researchers from four departments within the College of Engineering and the College of Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Characterization of TiO2 Nanowires Grown by Thermal Oxidation on Titanium Alloys Lead Investigator: Sheikh Akbar, Materials Science and …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin
Prof. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin is new to Ohio State, having joined the Condensed Matter Experiment group within the Department of Physics in July of 2006. Previous to arriving at OSU he received his graduate training in physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the lab of Prof. David Awschalom and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the California …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Yi Zhao
Professor Yi Zhao joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University and founded the Laboratory for Biomedical Microsystems in October 2006. Prior to arriving at OSU he received his graduate training in manufacturing engineering at Boston University and in mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Zhao’s research interests span a broad range of multidisciplinary fields in …