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August 7 , 2008Congratulations to Group alumnus, Chris Schuh, and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Meredith Christie Schuh, who was born July 17th at 5:10 AM. She weighs in at 6 lbs, 13 oz, 19 inches long with blond hair, and, at least for the moment, blue eyes. |
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July 10, 2008Marcus was recently awarded the 2008 Acta Student Award, reflecting outstanding articles published in Acta Materialia in 2007, one of the top journals in Materials Science and Engineering. Marcus was co-advised by Dr. Dean Haeffner at Argonne National Laboratory. The three papers for which he was nominated report on experiments carried out at the Advanced Photon Source. Marcus will attend the presentation ceremony which will be at the joint MS&T Conference in Pittsburgh in early October. Congratulations! |
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June 27, 2008Rick and Ampika took part in last week's PhD hooding ceremony. Check out some photos here. |
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June 24, 2008Congratulations to Dunand Group alumna Megan Frary for being awarded the 2008 ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers. She received her MS and BS with the Dunand Group before completing her PhD with Chris Schuh (another group alumnus) at MIT. |
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June 20, 2008Congratulations to former Dunand Group member Keith Knipling for having an article listed as #9 on the "Top 25 Hottest Articles" list for Jan-March 2008 of Acta Materialia:
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June 6 , 2008Congratulations to Ampika for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! |
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May 19, 2008Congratulations to Dr. Olivier Couteau and his wife on the birth of their son, Emir Couteau. He was born in Leige and weighs in at 3.5 kg and 49 cm tall. |
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May 15, 2008Former Dunand Group member and current Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Associate Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, Chris Schuh, was this year's keynote speaker at the annual John E. Hilliard symposium. His talk was entitled, "From the Ivory Tower to the Factory Floor: an NU Metallurgist Tries to Vertically Integrate." |
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March 28, 2008Matt recently published his first paper with the Dunand group: M.E. Krug, D.C. Dunand, and D.N. Seidman: Composition Profiles within Al3Li and Al3Sc/Al3Li Nanoscale Precipitates in Aluminum. Applied Physics Letters. 92, 124107 (2008). Congratulations, Matt! |
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March 19, 2008Congratulations to former group member, Yasumasa Chino on the birth of his daughter, who was born on March 4 and weighs in at 3,775 g. |
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January 8, 2008Research on magnetic shape-memory foams was recently highlighted in three university scientific news outlets: Northwestern University's McCormick News, Boise State University's UPDATE, and Technology Review at MIT (from which co-authors Vee and David are alumni). |
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December 19, 2007The magnetic shape-memory article by Vee, David, and co-workers at Boise State University was published in issue 24, volume 99 of Physical Review Letters. The article, entitled "Increasing magnetoplasticity in polycrystalline Ni-Mn-Ga by reducing internal constraints through porosity" was also highlighted as the cover story on the NSF website. The full NSF article can be accessed here. |
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December 6, 2007A recently reviewed Physical Review Letters article on magnetic shape-memory foams by Vee, David and co-workers at Boise State University has been highlighted in Physical Review Focus from the American Physical Society. The full story can be found here and was recently mentioned in MRS News. |
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October 31, 2007Congratulations to Dr. Alan Brothers who will be joining Mainstream Engineering in Florida from his current position as postdoc at Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany. |
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October 25, 2007Ampika recently published her first paper with the Dunand group:A. Bansiddhi and D.C. Dunand: Shape-memory NiTi foams produced by solid-state replication with NaF. Intermetallics, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2007, Pages 1612-1622 Congratulations, Ampika! |
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October 24 , 2007Justin passed his qualifier and is now an official Ph.D. candidate. |
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September 18, 2007David Dunand was part of the 2007 Class of Fellows, ASM. He is cited "For significant contributions to understanding the mechanical properties of dispersion-strengthened alloys, metal matrix composites and metallic foams." The complete list of 2007 fellows can be found here. |
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September 16, 2007Former Dunand post-doctoral researcher Vee Boonyongmaneerat was recently featured in the news for his work on electrodeposition on metallic foams. The article (in Thai) can be accessed here. It discusses some of the work presented at the 1st Thai Metallurgy Research Conference. |
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August 21 , 2007Rick recently defended his Ph.D. thesis. He is now headed to work for Sandia National Laboratories. |
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July 10 , 2007Congratulations are again in order for Jordan Kwok, who was awarded the Frey Prize, 3rd Place at the McCormick graduation ceremony for his work entitled "Development and Characteriztaion of a Process for Removing Steel Placeholders from Titanium Foams." Visit http://www.matsci.northwestern |
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July 10 , 2007Congratulations to former group member, Rajan Vaidyanathan, and his wife, Cecilia, on the birth of their son, Arvid Charles. He weighs in at 8 Lbs 5 Oz, 20.5". |
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June 13 , 2007Jordan Kwok recently received one of the inaugural Hilliard awards for exceptional achievement in research by an undergraduate. His project was entitled "Development and Characteriztaion of a Process for Removing Steel Placeholders from Titanium Foams" and he was mentored by Scott. |
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May 18 , 2007Congratulations to Rick, who was awarded first prize at the John E. Hilliard Symposium for his talk entitled "3-D Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Sc-Er." |
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May 9 , 2007Alix recently won the first place poster award at the Argonne National Lab User Week Conference poster sessions. The title of her poster was "Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Bovine Dentin Via High-Energy X-ray Diffraction." |
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April 24 , 2007Many group members will be attending the upcoming MetFoam 2007 Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams in Montreal, Canada from September 5-7, 2007. Past and present group members that will be in attendance include: Ampika Bansiddhi, Marie Cox, John DeFouw, Jessica Li, Justin Scott, Dr. Yuttanant Boonyongmaneerat [Vee], Dr. Heeman Choe, Dr. Yasumasa Chino and Dr. Andrea Hodge. |
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April 04 , 2007Northwestern's collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago is currently featured on the front page of the Argonne National Laboratory website. The article can be accessed here. |
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March 27, 2007Congratulations to Alix for being selected for two prestigious 3-year fellowships: the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. She has accepted the NDSEG Fellowship. |
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March 20, 2007Congratulations to Marcus on receiving a prestigious Humbolt Fellowship, which will provide funding for his postdoctoral work in Germany for up to 2 years. |
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September 20, 2006Congratulations to Marsha on receiving the Smith Fellowship -- a terminal year fellowship awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering. |
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September 15, 2006Congratulations to Justin on the renewal of his Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center (NSEC) Fellowship. |
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July 3, 2006Ampika will be attending the upcoming THERMEC' conference and Rick is headed to ICAA. |
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June 7, 2006Congratulations to Dr. Keith Knipling on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Development of a Nanoscale Precipitation-Strengthened Creep-Resistant Aluminum Alloy Containing Trialuminide Precipitates." |
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June 5, 2006Congratulations to Dr. Marcus Young on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Strain Measurements and Imaging of Metal Matrix Composites using High-Energy X-Rays." |
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June 1, 2006David Dunand is invested as the James and Margie Krebs Professor of Materials Science and Engineering by Dean Ottino from the McCormick school of Engineering at an April 2005 ceremony. |
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May 16, 2006The Art Institute of Chicago and McCormick unravel the mysteries of art, an article featured in McCormick By Design. |
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May 2, 2006Alan recently had a paper published in Intermetallics
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May 1, 2006Several papers from the Dunand Group have been ranked as ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles:
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April 20, 2006Several new papers have recently been published:
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April 16, 2006A new paper was published by former group member N.G.D. Murray and Daviud Dunand:
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March 31, 2006Congratulations to Justin on receiving a prestigious 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. |
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December 1 , 2005Northwestern Collaborates With Art Institute on Conservation Science.Northwestern has partnered with The Art Institute of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory on a long-term art conservation and scientific research program that recently received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Marcus and David are active collaborators in this program. More... |
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August 17, 2005Congratulations to Rick on receiving a TMS travel scholarship to attend the 2005 TMS MS&T meeting in Pittsburgh in September. |
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June 14, 2005Congratulations to Dr. Olivier Couteau and his wife on the birth of their new daughter, Leïla. Olivier reports, 'She is 7 lbs 14 oz, 20" and she is full of energy.' Photo of Leïla. |
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June 13, 2005Marsha and Keith presented talks at the American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter meeting on their research on Al-Sc and Al-Zr based high-temperature alumnum alloys.
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April 14, 2005The creation of ductile bulk metallic glass foams has recently been featured in Materials Today and the MRS Bulletin.
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April 11, 2005Congratulations to two of our students who have won prizes for posters at The Chicago Regional Chapter of ASM International (April 2005):
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March 11, 2005David Dunand is on the International Advisory Board of Metfoam 2005, the 4th international conference on porous metals and metal foaming technology, to take place in Japan in September 2005. Our research group will be presenting several talks at this conference.
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February 3, 2005Former visiting scholar Christian Greiner received from the University of Stuttgart the Prize for best diploma in the area of Physics/Chemistry/Materials/Mechanical and Civil Engineering ("Artur Fischer Preis"). Christian performed this research and wrote his thesis entitled "Processing and Properties of Superelastic NiTi Foams" in the Dunand group while visiting from the University of Stuttgart. His work will be submitted for publication to an international journal, and presented at MetFoam 2005.
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January 31, 2005Hipolito successfully defended his Masters Thesis. He also recently published a paper on his research involving transformation superplasticity.
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January 26, 2005Alan was awarded a very prestigious Northwestern Presidential Fellowship. |
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January, 2005Alan recently had two papers published discussing his research on metallic glass foams. |
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January 10-14, 2005The high-temperature aluminum people (Rick, Marsha, Keith) attended the high resolution electron microscopy winter school at Arizona State University. This was a welcome relief from Chicago winter. We also met former group member, Heeman Choe, for dinner. Heeman now works at Intel near Phoenix. |
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December 14 , 2004Metallographic Examination of Heavily Eroded Structural Steel from World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2 and 7 |
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October 20, 2004Rick passed his qualifier. He is now an official Ph.D. candidate. |
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October 8, 2004Scott published a paper on superelastic NiTi foams in TMS Letters:
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October 1, 2004Marcus passed his qualifier and has now too joined the ranks of Ph.D. candidate. |
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September 24, 2004Heeman and David published a paper on the mechanical properties of Ni foams in Materials Science and Engineering A:
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September 23, 2004Marsha passed her qualifier and is now an official Ph.D. candidate. |
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September 14, 2004Keith had a paper published from some old research at Virginia Tech.
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July 15 , 2004David published a paper on processing of Ti foams in Advanced Engineering Materials:
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June 15 , 2004David published a paper on finite element modeling:
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March 24, 2004Marcus received a Graduate Student Award to attend the 54th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany. This award is sponsored by the US DOE and NSF. He, along with approximately 50 other students, will travel to Lindau to participate in discussions with the Nobel Laureates as well as fellow young researchers from around the world. |
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February 16, 2004Alan had a paper accepted for publication on his bulk metallic glass foams:
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January 10, 2004Former group member, Naomi Davis, had her second paper on titanium foams accepted for publication in Acta Materialia:
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November 9-12, 2003The group present several papers at the The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society conference, Materials Science & Technology 2003, in downtown Chicago. |
