Student & Postdoc Honors News

  • Mar 28
    2016
     Anastasia Patterson received a poster award at the American Physical Society (APS) spring meeting held early in March. Neil Dolinsk also received a poster award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) spring meeting held during the same time.   Anastasia won third place in the 2016 Journal of Polymer Science poster prize, selected from 160 posters in the Division of... read more »
  • Jan 13
    2016
    Materials Ph.D. students Malinda (Mandi) Buffon and Megan Butala each won a poster award at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2015, held in Honolulu, HI in December. Mandi won an award for her poster on "Nanograined half-Heusler TiNiSn for thermoelectric applications" in the topic area of Materials & Nanoscience and Megan won an award for... read more »
  • Jan 6
    2016
    Written by Materials Ph.D. student, Chelsea Catania. The article orginally appeared in the online magazine "ImpactMania". To read the entire story, please click here.  Unfortunately, it is accepted that the pipeline in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is leaky—a term referring to the unintended loss of trainees from the disciplines;... read more »
  • Nov 9
    2015
    Thomas (Tom) Nizolek and Jaclyn (Jackie) Avallone, Ph.D. candidates in Materials have been awarded the 2014 Buehler Technical Paper Merit Award for Excellence and the Jacquet-Lucas International Metallographic Award. The award-winning paper provides an overview of a unique accumulative roll bonding technique used to synthesize bulk nanolaminates of Cu and Nb. The paper... read more »
  • Jul 3
    2015
    Graduate student Luke Rettbert received an Excellent Poster Award during the closing banquet of the 123HiMAT-Advanced High-Temperature Materials Committee's 1st International Conference, 123HiMAT 2015, held June 29 - July 3 at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.  His poster, titled Rejuvenation of Ni-Based Superalloys René N5(SX) and GTD444(DS), was voted one of the... read more »
  • Jun 26
    2015
    Graduate Student Alan Liu was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award at the 2015 Electronic Materials Conference for his presentation, "Record Lifetimes of GaAs Based Lasers Epitaxially Grown on Silicon." Student awards are given annually by the Electronic Materials Committee for the presentations at the EMC Conference. Student papers are judged on scientific content... read more »
  • Apr 3
    2015
    UCSB Materials graduate student Christopher Proctor has been awarded a 2015/16 Whitaker International Program Scholars post-doc grant to develop organic electronic devices for the treatment of neurological disorders at the École Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne in Gardanne, France. The Whitaker International Program sends emerging leaders in U.S. biomedical... read more »