The MSREC Honored Scholar Travel Award enabled Nicholas Hagopian to attend the 2024 Microscopy and Microanalysis conference held in Cleveland, Ohio. Hagopian, a PhD student in the Voyles group, conducts research on characterizing materials and …
Year: 2024
2024 BREW
The 2024 Breakthrough Research and Education Workshop (BREW) was held on Friday, September 27. The BREW serves multiple purposes and is an important annual activity for the Center. The workshop is an opportunity for all of the participants across the Center to: (1) Share their current research with each other; (2) Meet face to face with people from other research groups; (3) Review and discuss the expectations and priorities of the Center for students and postdocs and for faculty; and (4) Explore ways that the Center can bring materials science to young people through education and outreach activities.
Kawasaki Honored with 2024 MBE Young Investigator Award
The International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) has recognized MRSEC IRB 2 Co-Lead, Jason Kawasaki, with the 2024 Young Investigator MBE Award in September. According to the conference’s website, Kawasaki was awarded this honor, “For …
Collaborative MRSEC Research Results in Nano Letters Cover Article Last Month
Wisconsin MRSEC research groups (Xiao, Wang, Ping) have made significant progress in understanding and engineering the spin-mechanical coupling properties of two-dimensional materials CrSBr, an air-stable 2D magnet. Using nano-opto-electro-mechanical systems (NOEMS), they have observed the …
Wisconsin MRSEC earns award for partnership in Puerto Rico
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Materials Research selected the partnership between the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) for funding through the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials Research (PREM) program.
(2024) Biaxially-aligned Glasses of Organic Semiconductors
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Highlights Teacher’s Work Stemming from MRSEC RET Program
A recent article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel highlights a project of an alum of the MRSEC Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program. Lalitha Murali is one of a handful of teachers selected to participate in the NASA/ Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, Embedded Teacher Program in collaboration with the International Space Station National Lab and the Zero Gravity Corporation.