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Tobin Marks (IRG 1) has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 3) has been elected as a Materials Research Society Fellow.
NPR's Eight Forty-Eight - "The Perfect Hard-boiled Egg"- featuring Monica Olvera de la Cruz (SEED) and William Kung, makes top-25 most popular WBEZ stories of 2011.
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Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) joins world leaders, including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Honolulu this weekend to discuss the changing technologies in energy and nanotechnology that are likely to transform business and markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Matthew Grayson (IRG 2) produces the celebrated Caryl Churchill play, "A Number," for 2011 Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts (ETOPiA), with support of NU-MRSEC outreach.
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Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 3) and Tobin J. Marks (IRGs 1 and 2) use carbon nanotubes to make solar cells affordable and flexible.
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Tobin J. Marks (IRGs 1 and 2) receives the 2011 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, awarded by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
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Emilie Ringe, Richard Van Duyne (IRG 3) and Laurence Marks (IRG 3) describe the use of the modified Wulff construction to determine shape of alloy nanoparticles based on size and composition. Their work has been featured by Editors' Choice in Science.
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NU-MRSEC Fellow Emily Ringe received the Northwestern Presidential Fellowship. The Presidential Fellowship is funded by the President of the University and awarded by The Graduate School. This highly competitive award is the most prestigious fellowship awarded by Northwestern.
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Tobin J. Marks (IRG 4), a world leader in the fields of organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, solar energy, photovoltaics and nanotechnology, has received the 2011 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
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Mark Hersam (IRG 4) will be more interested than most Americans when the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the last time Friday, April 29. His carbon nanotube and graphene thin films will spend at least six months mounted on the outside of the International Space Station to see if they degrade in the harsh environment of outer space or are stable. More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) and William Kung will be featured on WBEZ's"Eight Forty-Eight" to share the science of egg boiling. This episode is scheduled to air on 4/21 between 9am and 10am (see www.wbez.org). More>
Jiaxing Huang (SEED) along with NU-MRSEC Graduate Student Kwon Nam Sohn and NU-MRSEC Student Ken C. Pradel have been featured in Chemistry Views for coming up with a "novel way to purify nanowires". More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) and her group was highlighted in PNAS for their work on faceting of membranes. PDF Available>
Tobin J. Marks (IRG 1 & IRG 4) has been elected an honorary fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. One of only three honorary fellows elected in 2010, Marks is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to science. More>
Vinayak Dravid (IRG 1) has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is being
honored for seminal contributions to the materials physics of functional materials
through the use of state of the art electron microscopy techniques. More>
Emily Weiss (SEED) has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and will be invited to the White House to meet President Obama and to attend the awards ceremony. More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) and David Seidman (NUCAPT) have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences along with NU President, Morton Schapiro. More>
NU-MRSEC Graduate Students Gali Baler, Jonathan Emery, Chya Yan Liaw and, David A. Walker presented at the Fifth Annual Upper Midwest MRSEC Symposium. More>
Michael Bedzyk (IRG 1 & 4) co-chaired the 11th International Conference on SXNS. New Photos available. More>
Chad Mirkin, a leader in nanotechnology, has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine. He is the first at Northwestern and in the Midwest and the 10th in the world to be elected to all three branches of the National Academies. More>
Chemists Tobin Marks and Richard Silverman and chemical engineer Harold Kung recently received honors from the American Chemical Society. More>
Jiaxing Huang's (SEED) paper, "Seeing graphene-based sheets" is one of the Top 25 Hottest Articles in Materials Today. More>
Bartosz Grzybowski (IRG 2) has been awarded the 2010 AlChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) Young Investigator Award.
Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) in collaboration with Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) and their students and associates have found novel cell wires. More>
Vinayak Dravid (IRG 1) and Justin Notestein (Seed) made the cut for 2010 Faculty Honor Roll. More>
Ben Myers of NU-MRSEC shared facilities EPIC/NUANCE, has been selected to receive the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Professional Technical Staff Award (PTSA) for 2010. More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) has been elected fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More>
Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) and Richard Van Duyne (IRG 3) have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. More>
Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) has been elected an Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. More>
Zachary Nicolaou has received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Zachary’s work in Adilson Motter’s lab is funded by a MRSEC Academic-Year Undergraduate Research Internship. More>
Jiaxing Huang (SEED) has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant More>
Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) has been named number one-cited chemist in the world. More>
Vinayak Dravid (IRG 1)has been selected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
Mark Hersam (IRG 4) has been named the 2010 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator. More>
MRSEC program partner University of Texas at San Antonio (PREM) receives New JEOL TEM that quickly breaks into picoscale territory. More>
Lawrence Marks (IRG 3) and collaborators have produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, widely used in industry as supports for catalysts. More>
Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) and his group have discovered new ways to grow cartilage using new nanoscopic materials. More>
Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) and his group have discovered the formation of crystals driven by X-ray.. More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) has been selected as one of 11 distinguished university faculty scientists and engineers forming the 2010 class of the Department of Defense National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (NSSEFF) program. More>
Monica Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) has been named a Lawyer Taylor Professor. More>
The University of Texas at San Antonio receives Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant for collaborative work with NU-MRSEC and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. More>
Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) receives the 2010 William H. Nichols Medal from the American Chemical Society. More>
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