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NSF Report Highlights IPRIME for Industrial Collaboration
"Increase industry sabbaticals in academia.
Industry sabbaticals are encouraged through personal relationships and in some consortia (for example, the IPRIME consortium at the University of Minnesota, where over 200 industrial researchers have participated in its Industrial Fellows Program)."
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Francis named CSE Distinguished Professor
April 26, 2019 - Coating Process Fundamentals Professor Lorraine Francis has been named a College of Science and Engineering (CSE) Distinguished Professor for her exceptional contributions to teaching, international reputation in scholarly research, and genuine commitment to the College and its activities.
Xiang Cheng, a CPF researcher, wins 2019 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award
April 22, 2019 - Associate Professor Xiang Cheng has been named the 2019 Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award recipient. The competitive award is given to a young person who has distinguished him/herself in rheological research, rheological practice, or service to rheology.
Macosko visits the University of Guadalajara
APRIL 8, 2019:
Professor Emeritus and founding CSP member Chris Macosko visited the University of Guadalajara last week. As part of the Amundson lecture series he was interviewed about sustainable polymers. Sustainable plastic has become an important topic of discussion in Mexico recently as the government is considering a bill banning single use plastics. Chris emphasized the importance of developing new sustainable polymers and recycling.
Collaborative research on energy transport in solar cells published in Nature Communications
March 19, 2019 - A team consisting of IPRIME Ph.D. students Tao Zhang and Dana Dement, and their advisors Professors Russell Holmes and Vivian Ferry, has recently reported a new method that permits measurement of nanoscale energy transport in a working solar cell.
Frank Bates named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Dec. 11, 2018 -
Status is the highest distinction accorded to academic inventors. The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that University of Minnesota Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Regents Professor Frank Bates has been named an NAI Fellow.
Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.
CEMS Researchers Set New Record in Electrically-Controlled Magnetic Device
Dec. 5, 2018 - CEMS researchers in Prof. Chris Leighton’s group, working in collaboration with the U of M School of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, and Oak Ridge National Lab, have recently achieved a new record for performance of an important type of spintronic device.
Ellison Co-PI on $1.98M NSF EFRI Grant
Nov. 21, 2018 - Associate Pofessor Chris Ellison (MRSEC Seed CEMS) was awarded co-PI on a new National Science Foundation (NSF) EFRI grant entitled ...
Holmes named Institute on the Environment Fellow
Nov. 14, 2018 - Professor Russell Holmes was recently named a Fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment (IonE). IonE Fellows ...
Macosko delivers plenary talk at 31st Congress of the Polymer Society of Mexico
Nov. 8, 2018 - Professor Emeritus Christopher W. Macosko recently gave a plenary talk, "The Role of Processing and Interfacial Reaction on Polymer/Polymer ...