The group has been enjoying campus opening up and allowing for in-person meetings! We are happy to have Ramesh and Davesh join our team this year.

Congratulations to Sharon Uwanyuze for being selected to receive the Student & Young Professionals UNITECR funding on behalf of the RCD committee and North American UNITECR Committee.
This funding is awarded to 10-20 students/professionals for the Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories (UNITECR). This conference will take place March 14-18, 2022 in Chicago.
Cassidy Atkinson and ARL Researchers investigate the effects of doping in silicon carbide grain boundaries. This research was supported by Dr. Sanjeev Nayak and Dr. Pamir Alpay. The work was published in Acta Materiala and can be accessed here.
Uchenna Anene won the “Promise in Computational Chemistry” award for speaking at the Women Make COMP symposium of the American Chemical Society, Fall 2021.
Women are under-represented in science and this symposium aimed to address this gender-gap by ensuring that young women in the field had the mentorship to pursue academia and industry fields.
UConn MSE alumna Tulsi Patel conducts her own research as an NRC Research Associate with the United States Air Force. Read the whole article.
UConn researchers and collaborators at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology developed a theoretical model that will expediate the development of affordable fuel cells, a key technology for sustainable energy.
Radenka Maric, UConn’s vice president for research, innovation and entrepreneurship; Dario Dekel from Technion’s Chemical Engineering Department; S. Pamir Alpay, UConn’s associate dean for research and industrial partnerships; and Sanjubala Sahoo, a research scientist in Alpay’s group published their findings in ACS Catalysis in February.