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.
Cassidy and ARL Researchers Publication
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.
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.