Veronica Ayen and Christian Bonanni have joined Dr. Alpay Research Group. Veronica and Christian are undergraduate students in Materials Science and Engineering.
Congratulations to Serzat Safaltin
Serzat Safaltin defended his dissertation on “First-Principles Dopant Engineering of Functional Properties in Aluminum Scandium Nitride” on November 21, 2025.
Congratulations to Victoria Bradford
Congratulations to Victoria Bradford for earning 1st place in Materials Science and Engineering at UConn’s Senior Design Demo Day! Her outstanding project focused on Ductility Dip Cracking (DDC) in 70/30 CuNi alloys.
Congratulations to Our New PhD Candidates!
Serzat Safaltin, Taraduttt Pattnaik and Devesh Kale have successfully passed their PhD proposal defenses and are now officially PhD candidates. Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to Cassidy Atkinson
Congratulations Pamir Alpay
In-Person Meetings
Congratulations to Dr. Sanjeev Nayak
2022 Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories
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.