On campus conducting research during Winter break? Let the IMR shuttle transport you in the cold weather! The IMR shuttle service continues to operate on a normal schedule during winter break, providing a free passenger shuttle between main campus and research facilities on Kinnear Road west of campus. The shuttle operates 6 times each weekday, leaving every 90 minutes beginning …
Rajan Group Research Featured in Semiconductor Today and Applied Physics Letters
Congratulations to Professor Siddharth Rajan and his research team for having their recent work on tunnel junctions featured in Semiconductor Today and published in Applied Physics Letters. This research on InGaN was funded in part by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) through an IMR Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grant and the Targeted Initiative in Excellence (TIE) Advanced Materials Initiative project. …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Katrina Cornish
This summer Katrina Cornish joined The Ohio State University faculty at OARDC-Wooster as an Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials. This key position is one of three Ohio Research Scholars at OSU founded by an Ohio Department of Development Ohio Research Scholars Program award, Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials, with IMR Director Steven Ringel as the Principal Investigator. Dr. Cornish is …
2011 Ohio State University Business Plan Competition
The OSU Center for Entrepreneurship is accepting team registrations for its 2011 Ohio State University Business Plan Competition through January 14, 2011. This competition provides a unique opportunity for OSU materials students to explore commercialization of their research, with the opportunity to win start-up money. Past winners include materials-related projects from O2, Nanofiber Solutions, and Traycer Diagnostic Systems. This year’s …
New Ohio Research Scholar – Scott Gold – University of Dayton
The University of Dayton School of Engineering recently announced the hiring of Dr. Scott Gold as an Ohio Research Scholar in Multiscale Composites Processing. This Ohio Research Scholar position is funded by the Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials award from the Ohio Department of Development through the Ohio Third Frontier Program. This award created five new Ohio Research Scholars – three …
November 3: “The State of Research at The Ohio State University” Address
Caroline Whitacre, Ph.D., Vice President for Research “The State of Research at The Ohio State University” address and presentation of the “2010 Innovator of the Year” award Wednesday, November 3, 2010 8:30 AM U.S. Bank Theater, Ohio Union Caroline Whitacre, PhD, vice president for research at The Ohio State University, will deliver her inaugural state of research address to …
IMR Quarterly, Fall 2010
Features New Ohio Research Scholar Stretches the Boundries of Natural Rubber (Katrina Cornish) Materials Centers updates: CMPND and CEM Faculty Spotlight: Katrina Cornish, Horticulture and Crop Sciences Download the Fall 2010 Quarterly Newsletter About IMR Quarterly The Institute for Materials Research provides a newsletter three times a year with technical articles highlighting OSU research, updates on research funded by IMR grants, facility …
October 1: ENCOMM Presents Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony Leggett
Friday, October 1, 2010 4:00 PM, Room E100 Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue Propects for Topological Quantum Computing Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Physics Nobel Prize and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics, Univesrity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hosted by ENCOMM, the Center for Electronic and Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials
CEM Offers Research Experiences for Undergraduates
The Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Ohio State, is accepting applications for its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program for the 2010-2011 academic year. Through its Education and Human Resources Development/Diversity (EHRD/D) program, the OSU Center for Emergent Materials will support 9 undergraduates to perform CEM-related research during the academic year. A …
2010 OSU Materials Week – Student Poster Session Award Winners
2010 OSU Materials Week was a great success, with over 330 participants representing OSU and 15 other universities, over a dozen industry collaborators, and several government labs. Many thanks to our Program Planning Committee, session coordinators, speakers, corporate sponsors, and participants for making this such a fun and informative conference. A highlight again this year was the student poster sessions, where …