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MRSEC News Archive 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> 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> 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> 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> 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. 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> 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> 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> Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) Leads a team that developed new nanotechnology-based tools that are 300 times more sensitive than commercial tests and define a new PSA “zero”. 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) wins the 2009 MRS Von Hipple award. More> Michelle Mok (IRG 2) wins the 2009 Akzo-Nobel Award of the American Chemical Society for her work on gradient copolymers. Alexander Flowers (REU 2002) receives the Distinguished Service Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. More> George Schatz (IRG 3) receives two honors from the American Chemical Society. More> Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) receives the 2010 William H. Nichols Medal from the American Chemical Society. More> Jiaxing Huang (Seed) develops an "evolutionary tree" of nanoparticle synthesis to control particle morphology. Abstract> Press Release> Tobin Marks, Mark Hersam and Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) receive Nanoelectronics Research Initiative grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. More> Sir Fraser Stoddart (Seed) will receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. More> Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) is awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention. More> Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) receives Nelson Taylor Award from Penn State University. More> Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) work on functionalizing graphene is featured as a cover article in Nature Chemistry. Abstract> Press Release> Molecular semiconductor work of Mark Ratner (IRG 4) and Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) appears as cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal. Abstract> Review article on molecular self-assembled monolayers and multilayers by Mark Ratner (IRG 4) and Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) is featured in Advanced Materials. Abstract> Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) named as member of President Obama's Science and Technology Advisory Council. More> Vinayak Dravid (IRG 1) named Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America. Ken Shull (IRG 2) has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and will spend the next academic year at the Insituto de Física at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Michael Bedzyk (IRG 1 and 4) measures atomic structure of ferroelectric strontium titanate grown directly on silicon. Journal Article> Press Release> Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) uses atom probe tomography to view dopant distribution in semiconducting nanowires. Journal Article> Press Release> Sam Stupp (IRG 2) and Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) develop hybrid organic-inorganic lamellar photoconductors with environmentally friendly ZnO. Journal Article> Press Release> Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) is named winner of the 2009 Herman Pines Award for his work on homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. More> Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) and Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) are named Fellows of the Materials Research Society. More> Adilson Motter (Seed) is named Sloan Fellow. More> Teri Odom (IRG 3) wins the Outstanding Young Investigator award from the Materials Research Society. More> Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) is elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. More> Monica Olvera (IRG 2) describes the electrostatic origins of chiral patterns in nanofibers in a cover article of Soft Matter. Journal Article> Press Release> Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) work on Nanoscale Conducting Oxide Writing appears as cover article in Advanced Materials. Christopher Chen, a 2007 REU, and 2007-2008 URI participant, is coauthor on the paper. More> Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) receives the Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from ACS, and the Havinga Medal 2009 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. More> Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) is awarded honorary doctorate by the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. More> George Schatz (IRG 3) receives the 2008 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for theoretical work in nanoscience. More> Mark Hersam (IRG 4) uses density gradient ultracentrifugation to separate double-walled carbon nanotubes from single-walled and multi-walled nanotubes. More> Adilson Motter (Seed) finds that cells only use a small fraction of available biochemical reactions in metabolic optimization. More> Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) shows that biologically active nanofibers can help mice paralized from spinal cord injury regain movement. More> Katherine Faber (Seed) from Northwestern University and Francesca Casadio from the Art Institute of Chicago jointly organize a symposium on collaborative art conservation projects. More> Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) is elected as Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. More> NU-MRSEC receives a Student Development and Achievement Grant from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago Foundation to support the science clubs at Chute and Nichols middle schools in Evanston. Article> JCCC Newsletter (page9)> Teri Odom (IRG 3) receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award. More> Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. More> Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) Gallium nanocluster experiments appear as cover article in Small. More> Thomas Mason's (IRG 1) Nano-Grain Composite Model is featured in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. More> Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) receives Spanish award for creating ‘Revolutionary Materials’. More> George Schatz (IRG 3) named Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellow. More> Mirkin (IRG 3) selected as member of the DOD National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (NSSEFF) program. More> 2007 summer MRSEC REU research contributes to Nature Physics paper on granular materials. More> Paper of Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) receives PNAS prize. More> Motter (Seed) studies the control and recovery of cellular function. More>
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