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2009
9/09 |
Stephen Nonnenmann and Greg Soja presented their research at the 2009 Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures.
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8/09 |
Dr. Spanier, along with other colleagues, is a recent recipient of several funding grants awarded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. More information about these awards and the projects they support can be found here.
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8/09 |
Marc Aranguren has joined the MML as a Materials Science and Engineering graduate student. He received his BA in Physics from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Welcome Marc!
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7/09 |
We would like to welcome new students Guannan Chen and Christopher Hawley to the MML! Before coming to Drexel, they studied at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin, respectfully.
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2008
12/08 |
We welcome Dr Greg Soja to the MML! Greg received his PhD in chemistry from the University at Buffalo in the group of Prof David Watson.
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2007
11/07 |
Professor Spanier was honored at a White House ceremony as one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Spanier is the first assistant professor at Drexel to be selected for this recognition since the inception of the program in 1996 under President Clinton. See the White House press release [ www ] and the Office of Science and Technology Policy announcement [ pdf ].
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10/07 |
Professor Spanier receives the Outstanding Research Award for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering for 2007.
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10/07 |
The brand-new JEOL 2100 TEM has arrived at Drexel and is being assembled
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10/07 |
Congratulations to Oren for his new paper in JMR!
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9/07 |
Congratulations to Joan Burger for selection as an Anne Stevens Scholarship!
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9/07 |
A Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award from the NSF proposed by Prof Spanier and colleagues will permit the acquisition of a new dual-beam focused-ion and electron-beam microscope with local optical probing capabilities at Drexel
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9/07 |
We welcome to the group Like ("Coco") Shu, Wei Wu, Lisa Detweiler and Pouya Dianat!
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8/07 |
Professor Spanier (Co-PI) with Drexel colleagues Professor Yury Gogotsi (PI) and other co-PIs Dean Mun Choi, and University of Pennsylvania Professors Dawn Bonnell and A.T."Charlie" Johnson receive a five-year $3M Interdisciplinary Research Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant from the NSF that will support twelve PhD students at Drexel and UPenn to study and carry out doctoral research in nanoscience and nanotechnology with participating faculty.
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6/07 |
Congratulations to Jennie for her efforts and success with the Photonics Technology Access Program (PTAP) award!
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6/07 |
Congratulations to graduating senior Lemoda (Lee) Laim on being selected Most Outstanding MS Student for all of Drexel University in the category of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences!
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3/07 |
Congratulations to Oren Leaffer for selection for a Rafiki Award!
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2006
9/06 |
Oren Leaffer has just joined the group. He completed his undergrad in engineering physics from UC Berkeley and has just started graduate studies in MSE at Drexel. Welcome, Oren!
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9/06 |
Congrats to Xia, Eric, Prof Nabet and our collaborators in Italy on the publication of the new paper in IEEE EDL... Great job!
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8/06 |
Work of the MML as reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. receives coverage in the August issue of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin. [ pdf ]
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7/06 |
Congrats to Linyou, Bora and Jennie for acceptance of their new paper in Nano Lett.!
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6/06 |
Congratulations to Linyou Cao for being selected and honored today (6/1/06) with an award as first among the ten most outstanding graduate students in all of Drexel University on the basis of research or service accomplishments this past academic year! Nice job, Linyou!!!
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6/06 |
Work of Linyou Cao and Profs. Nabet and Spanier on the optical properties of nanocones as published in Phys. Rev. Lett. received coverage in the magazine Photonics. Read all about it: [ link ]
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5/06 |
We are glad to welcome Dr. Archibald Peters to the group as a postdoctoral fellow!
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4/06 |
The work of Spanier and his collaborators on the use of molecular absorbates to stabilize ferroelectricity continues to be reported, now in New Scientist on April 28. [ link ] [ pdf ]
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4/06 |
Dr. Jonathan Spanier, assistant professor of materials engineering, was quoted in a story on the Web site of United Press International and PhysOrg.com , PoliticalGateway.com, LinuxElectronics.com, DailyIndia.com, TCMNet.com, PostChronicle.com, MonstersAndCritics.com, CCNMag.com, NewKerala.com, Playfuls.com, YubaNet.com, ScienceDaily.com and TechnologyNewsDaily.com on April 26 and 27, 2006 about a collaboration involving Drexel, Penn and Harvard studying the use of water in nanostructures to create ultra-dense memory storage. [ link ]
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4/06 |
Our paper "Enhanced Raman Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanocones and Nanowires," published in Physical Review Letters 96, 157402 (2006), has been selected for the May 1, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research.
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3/06 |
Congratulations to Linyou on our paper on the Raman scattering from nanocones and nanowires being accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Great job, Linyou!
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2/06 |
We welcome Jennifer Atchison to our group as a graduate student in Materials Science & Engineering. Welcome, Jennie!
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2/06 |
Congratulations to Lee and Rahul for being accepted for internships at Micron Technology's System Memory Group in Boise, ID, and to Shannon for his internship at Intel Corporation's Ronler Acres Development Center in Beaverton, OR!
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2/06 |
Winter 2006 and Spring 2006 group meeting schedules have been posted!
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2005
9/05 |
We welcome Bora Garipcan to our group this month. Bora is a visiting PhD student in bioengineering from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey with undergraduate and MS in biochemistry; he will be spending one year with us. Welcome!
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9/05 |
Congratulations to Linyou and Lee for their hard work and the appearance of their paper on nanocones in JACS Communications- and thanks to Drs. Chao and Nabet for their contributions! Nice job!
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8/05 |
Proposal of Prof. Barsoum and Prof. Spanier with colleagues at Rowan University to investigate the properties of engineered nano-laminate materials is selected by NSF-DMR for funding as a four-year Focused Research Group (FRG).
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4/05 |
Linyou Cao receives a 2005 Grant-in-Aid of Research from Sigma Xi. Congratulations, Linyou!
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2/05 |
Prof. Spanier's proposal for a two-year Innovation Grant within the NSF-NSEC Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (Nano-Bio Interface Center) at UPenn is selected in competition [ http://www.nanotech.upenn.edu/news_images/article_003.html#spanier ]
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2/05 |
A proposal to the Department of Defense/ARO under the DURIP program by Prof. Spanier (PI) for acquisition of an electron beam lithography system at Drexel has been selected for award [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb2005/d20050218supports.pdf ]
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1/05 |
Prof. Spanier, with Prof. B. Nabet, selected to receive one-year award under GRID program from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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2004
5/04 |
Prof. Spanier receives three-year 2004 Army Research Office Young Investigator Award for research involving ferroelectric nanostructures
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4/04 |
Prof. Spanier is co-PI with Prof. B. Layton, PI on awarded one-year NSF Major Research Instrumentation award for the purchase of a Zyvex L100 Nanomanipulator system
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3/04 |
Prof. Spanier is a Sr. Investigator (Profs. S. Kalidindi and A. Zavaliangos, PI/Co-PI) in awarded, three-year NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program [ http://www.materials.drexel.edu/news/2004_spring/dream_reu.html ]
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3/04 |
Prof. Spanier is recipient of a one-year research grant from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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