Author: Atkinson, Cassidy

Student & Young Professionals UNITECR Funding Recipient

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.

Promise in Computational Chemistry Winner

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.

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UConn-Technion Collaboration Develops Model for Affordable Fuel Cell Catalysts

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.

First Place Poster Award ICACC 2020

It was announced during the ICACC 2021 conference that Cassidy Atkinson received first place in the poster competition from ICACC 2020. The title of her poster is DFT Study of the Impact of Impurities in SiC Bulk and Grain Boundaries. This work was collaborative between Army Research Laboratory and UConn.