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Brief.
We welcome 20 new faculty members to CMDIS this past month, we now have 109 faculty members from 19 academic departments and research centers. Congratulations to Yinan Wang for becoming our 100th member!!
And our heartfelt welcome to new members!!
Our student research focus groups (RFG) are looking for members, please encourage your researchers / students to become members and join an RFG from this link to interact with 180 other students/researchers.
What’s ahead in the month?
CMDIS BYOND Program is now accepting applications for the Spring term. The program is designed to introduce microfabrication and analysis concepts to interested undergraduate students. The program currently offers four modules with each module running over a four-week period. Spring semester modules are Module 2 – Deposition (02/06-03/03) and Module 4 – Metrology (03/13-04/07), the application deadline is 01/18/2022. Read more.
Approaching deadlines
(Undergrad / Grad) Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) (Application Deadline: 11.January)
The fellowship provides excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in fields of study that solve complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science. The program seeks highly trained scientists and engineers in areas of study related to high energy density physics, nuclear science, and materials under extreme conditions and hydrodynamics. The DOE NNSA SSGF is open to U.S. citizens planning full-time, uninterrupted study toward a doctoral degree at an accredited U.S. university. Those eligible to apply include senior undergraduate students and first- and second-year graduate students focusing their studies on high energy density physics, nuclear science, or properties of materials under extreme conditions and hydrodynamics. Learn more.
(Undergraduate) Society of Physics Students Internships
(Application Deadline: 15.January)
The SPS summer internship program offers 10-week positions for undergraduate physics students in science research, education and policy with various organizations in the Washington, DC area. All internships include paid housing, a competitive stipend, support to attend a national physics meeting in the year following the internship, and transportation to and from Washington, DC. Learn more.
(Undergrad / Grad) The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Engineering Scholarships (Application Deadline: 16.February)
A scholarship is considered by ASME to be a grant made to a student to enable or assist the student in pursuing an educational program in mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology at the undergraduate or graduate level. If you have questions about the ASME Scholarship Program, eligibility or have other questions, join an open office hour (01/13,3:00pm-4:00pmEST) Learn more.
(Undegraduate) Dr. Vicki L. Schechtman Scholarship
(Application Deadline: 28.February)
This scholarship will be awarded to a college undergraduate in her Freshman through Junior year whose field of study will be one of the sciences recognized by the National Science Foundation Learn more.
(Graduate) Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) (Application Deadline: 18.January)
This fellowship provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems: a yearly stipend of $45,000 , payment of full tuition and required fees during the appointment period (at any accredited U.S. university), an annual $1,000 professional development allowance, up to four years of total support, depending on renewal, a twelve-week practicum experience at one of 21 DOE national laboratories or sites, including access to DOE supercomputers, a rigorous program of study that ensures fellows have solid backgrounds in a scientific or engineering discipline plus computer science and applied mathematics. The field of study can be in Applied Mathematics, Astrophysics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Physics. Learn more.
(Graduate) IBM PhD Fellowship Award Nominations are open.
(Nomination Deadline: 17.February)
Since 1951, the IBM PhD Fellowship Program has collaborated with faculty, students and universities by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students that address focused areas of interest in technology. All nominees must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member; students cannot nominate themselves; must be enrolled full-time in a PhD program over the academic year of the award or forfeit the fellowship; should have two years remaining in their program at the time of nomination so the fellowship can be applied to the last two years of study. Learn more.
(Graduate) Advancing Women in Science Distinguished Doctoral Research Scholarship (Application Deadline: 28.February)
Awarded to three AWIS members whose dissertation research project is judged likely to make important and original contributions to their field. This $10,000 award is intended for a pre-doctoral student in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics or Engineering who is a woman expecting to graduate within 2 years of the application deadline. Learn more.
(Post-Doc) The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science
(Application Deadline: 17.January)
It is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, anywhere in the world. The fellowship is awarded to postdocs for up to five years. The fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. The aim is to award up to ten fellowships each year. Researchers who pursue unconventional projects outside the mainstream of science, engineering, and social sciences may apply. Those in current postdoctoral positions are also eligible. Learn more.
(Post-Doc) NASA Postdoctoral Program
(Application Deadline: 01.March)
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented U.S. and non-U.S. scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. NASA has removed the temporary restrictions for non U.S. citizen applicants, annual application cycle is 01.March. Learn more.
(Faculty) DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program
(Application Deadline: 07.February)
The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. Learn more.
Publications in Our Radar
Chakrapani V., Wang C., Wang Q., Smieszek N., Direct determination of Mn valence states in mixed-valent manganates by photoluminescence spectroscopy, Surface and Interface Analysis (2022), vol. 54, pp.1192-1202, DOI:10.1002/sia.7144
Chen Z., Xu R., Ma S., Ma Y., Hu Y., Zhang L., Guo Y., Huang Z., Wang B., Sun Y.-Y., Jiang J., Hawks R., Jia R., Xiang Y., Wang G.-C., Wertz E.A., Tian J., Gall D., Chen X., Wang V., Gao L., Zhu H., Shi J., Searching for Circular Photo Galvanic Effect in Oxyhalide Perovskite Bi4NbO8Cl, Advanced Functional Materials (2022), 2206343, vol. 32, pp.-DOI:10.1002/adfm.202206343
Ge M., Wang H., Wu J., Si C., Zhang J., Zhang S., Enhanced valley splitting of WSe2 in twisted van der Waals WSe2/CrI3 heterostructures, npj Computational Materials (2022), 32, vol. 8, DOI:10.1038/s41524-022-00715-9
Kandel S.R., Dumre B.B., Gall D., Khare S.V., Investigation of hardness in transition metal hexa-nitrides in cubic structure: A first-principles study, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (2022), 111022, vol. 171, pp.-DOI:10.1016/j.jpcs.2022.111022
Liu H., Shi Y., Huang L., Deformation behaviors of a model metallic glass under 3-D nanoindentation studied in molecular dynamics simulation, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X (2022), 100130, vol. 16, DOI:10.1016/j.nocx.2022.100130
Oliveto V., Hughes M., Smith D.E., Borca-Tasciuc D.-A., Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Nanostructure-Based Asymmetric Light Transmission Interfaces for Solar Concentrator Applications, Energies (2022), 8175, vol. 15, DOI:10.3390/en15218175
Shao B., Tan S., Huang Y., Zhang L., Shi J., Yang X.-Q., Hu E., Han F., Enabling Conversion-Type Iron Fluoride Cathode by Halide-Based Solid Electrolyte, Advanced Functional Materials (2022), 2206845, vol. 32, DOI:10.1002/adfm.202206845
Wang G., Badal A., Jia X., Maltz J.S., Mueller K., Myers K.J., Niu C., Vannier M., Yan P., Yu Z., Zeng R., Development of metaverse for intelligent healthcare, Nature Machine Intelligence (2022), vol. 4, pp.922-929, DOI:10.1038/s42256-022-00549-6
In Case You Have Missed
Chulsung Bae (CHEM) has been interviewed by Newsweek for a news piece “Why Do Fossil Fuels Have So Much Carbon Stored in Them?” Congratulations! Read more.
Jie Lian (MANE) has been awarded by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The project targets the transient behavior of nuclear fuels under prototypical temperature transients and the development of a microstructure-informed fuel fragmentation model. The results obtained from this project will be essential to evaluate the performance of high burnup fuels and assist the NRC for risk-informed decision-making in licensing accident-tolerant fuels for reactor operations. Congratulations! Read more.
Shanbin Shi (MANE) has been awarded by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). He is a co-PI on a project led by Virginia Tech for a comprehensive experimental and modeling study of annual two-phase flow for the safety analysis of current light water reactors and future advanced reactors. Congratulations! Read more.
Trevor D. Rhone (PHYS) has been awarded with the Joseph A. Johnson III Award of Excellence by American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the National Society of Black Physicists for scientific ingenuity and powerful mentorship and service. His research focuses on materials discovery, particularly on novel two-dimensional magnetic materials using a combination of computer simulations and artificial intelligence. Read more. Congratulations!
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