Alumni News

	November 16-17, 2015 Group alumna Peiqi Zheng (PhD, 2013) visited Evanston and Northwestern, where she got to catch up with David, tour the still-familiar lab space, and even go out to dinner with some of the current group members. Thanks for visiting Paige, it was great to see you!
	April 1, 2015 Hyeji Park won 3rd prize in a poster competition of microstructural pictures held at the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, based on her work synthesizing directionally solidified freeze-cast cobalt foams, performed here at NU; the award-winning poster can be found here. Hyeji is currently a student at Kookmin University in South Korea, under group alumnus Prof. Heeman Choe. Congratulations Hyeji and Heeman! The award (click for full-size image)
	March 18, 2015 Matt Krug and his wife Megna are celebrating the birth of their son Ravi Oliver Krug, who was born March 18 at 8:18 AM, weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces. "Megna and Ravi are doing great, and parents are learning how to make it through the day on minimal sleep." Congratulations!
	February 24, 2015 Group alumnus and current MIT DMSE Chair Chris Schuh came back to NU to give the 2015 Morris E. Fine Lecture today. The talk was entitled "Grain Boundary Alloying in Nanocrystalline Metals, from Theory to Practice"
	February 23, 2015 Congratulations to Nhon Vo and his wife, on the birth of their daughter Vivian!
	September 5, 2014 Congratulations to Qizhen Li, who is now an Associate Professor at Washington State University in the school of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.
	September 4, 2014 Congratulations to Judy Zhu, who will now be working as a Quality and Reliability Engineer at Applied Materials in Santa Clara, CA.
	July 2, 2013 Congratulations to Bing Ye, and his wife Shu Zhang on the birth of their baby girl, Lynn!
	June 3, 2013 Congratulations to Yasumasa Chino, and his wife Tomoko on the birth of their second child (and first son)! His name is Soichiro and he weighed in at 3.0 kg when he was born.

	February 9, 2013 Congratulations to group alumna Ampika Bansiddhi, whose PhD Thesis was granted an Excellent Thesis Award for the Innovation Day 2013 competition held by the National Research Council of Thailand. Her submission ranked within the top ten of the 150 theses entered in the contest!
	Ampika receiving the award from Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister	Group alumni Ampika and Alan with the certificate
	July 23, 2012 Group alumn Keith Knipling has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. This is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their professional careers. He is one of 16 scientists receiving the award for research related to the Department of Defense, which was presented at a reception at the Smithsonian and the White House. Read more about this award and Dr. Knipling's research here
	July 6, 2012 Congratulations to Aurelia Ramos, who received a prize for best diploma.
	July 6, 2012 Congratulations to Qizhen Li, who was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure at University of Nevada, Reno.
	July 4, 2012 Congratulations to group alumna Marie Cox and Eddie Schwalbach on their surprise marriage in DC!.
	May 21, 2012 Congratulations to Scott Oppenheimer, who will be starting at GE Global Research in June in their metals division. He will be working as a melt scientist with their vacuum melt furnaces. Fellow alumna, Anjali Singhal, will be working in the same lab, starting within a week of Scott.
	May 1, 2012 Congratulations to group alumna Andrea Hodge! She has been awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Program (ONR YIP) award for her proposal "Tailored crystallographic material states for the design of novel interfaces." She was also awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for her proposal "Highly Nanotwinned Ultra High Strength Aluminum Alloys."
	April 18, 2012 The Transmission X-ray Microscope (TXM) which group alumna Yu-Chen Karen Chen-Wiegart works with has been featured in @brookhaven Today. Read more about the new x-ray microscope here
	April 10, 2012 Group alumnus Marcus Young has been offered a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas. He will be starting the position in September 2012. Congratulations Marcus!
	March 5, 2012 Congratulations to Bing Ye, who was hired in November 2011 as a lecturer (equivalent to an assistant Professor in the US) in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
	November 21, 2011 Congratulations to group alumna Marsha van Dalen and her husband John on the birth of their daughter, Laura Marie! She was born on Nov. 16 at 19:31 and weighed in at 6 lbs 15 oz.
	October 22, 2011 Group Alumnus Marcus Young's new daughter, Annika Wren Young was born at 19:38 on October 19, 2011 by c-section and she weighed in at 8 lbs 14 oz and 23 inches long. Congratulations!
	September 30, 2011 Group alumnus Chris Schuh has been appointed the new head of MIT's Materials Science and Engineering Department. He currently serves as MIT's Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Professor in Metallurgy and was also recently named to a 10 year appointment as a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Read more here.
	September 24, 2011 Group alumnus Anselm Neurohr has been offered a position at Zimmer CAS as a Development Engineer in Montreal. He is the second alumni to enter the biomedical industry. He will be working with products through all stages of development, from conceptualization through market entry.
	June 19, 2011 Congratulations to alumna Megan Frary and her husband Rick on the birth of her second-born, Margaret Pauline Frary, at 6lbs, 1oz and 20 in long!
	May 10, 2011 Qizhen Li, formerly a Post-Doc in the Dunand group, now a faculty member in the University of Nevada, Reno's chemical and materials engineering department, has been awarded a highly competitive National Science Foundation five-year CAREER Award. Read more here.
	January 28, 2011 Congratulations to alumnus Christian Greiner and his new wife Alexandra on their marriage!
	December 5, 2010 Congratulations to alumnus Chris Schuh and his wife Leslie on the birth of his second-born, Kira Jane Schuh, at 6lbs, 6oz and 19 in long!
	October 10, 2010 Group alumni Ampika Bansiddhi and Alan Borthers were married in Nontaburi, Thailand. Congratulations!
	October 1, 2010 Group alumna Andrea Hodge has recently been appointed as the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Early Career Chair in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. This appointment recognizes Andrea’s exceptional distinction and promise as a faculty member.