PEAQS Center Uses Light to Measure Silicon Membrane Thickness

The PREM PEAQS center recently published a paper, “Real-time optical thickness determination for producing ultra-thin silicon membranes using anisotropic potassium hydroxide etching” in MRS Advances.

Karen Lozano Featured at Women’s in Materials Science & Engineering Keynote Breakfast

At the ongoing 2024 PREM Scholars Summit, Karen Lozano, keynote speaker at the event discussed her work as PREM PI at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Students Help Students at CAMPS 2024

Science and networking bring materials science students from across the nation to the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering

FURS conference (UT Fall Undergrad Research Symposium) Oral Presentation Award – Dillon Gee

Exciting research presented at the UT Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS)! We’re thrilled to announce that Dillon Gee and Brandon Taylor recently shared their innovative research projects in oral presentations.

Tania Betancourt Selected as Emerging Leader

Tania Betancourt, Director of PREM CIMA, has been selected as one of AIMBE’s 17 Inaugural Emerging Leaders for her exceptional contributions to medical and biological engineering. This recognition by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) highlights Betancourt’s remarkable contributions to biomedical engineering and her dedication to innovation and mentorship.

PREM Student Receives Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Award

PREM student, Dillon Gee, was recently awarded the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Award for his presentation “Leveraging Valence of Star-like PEGs to Tune Rheology and Gelation Pathways of Dynamic Hydrogels,” based on his UT REU research. With over 6,000 attendees at the ABRCMS and 3,000 presentations, only 300 participants received awards—and Gee was one of them.

PREM Researchers Receive Department of Energy Environmental Management Scholarship

PREM researchers, Junaid ur Rehman and Scott Barrett, recently presented their innovative research and were awarded the 2024 Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Scholarship at the DOE-EM Symposium held at Texas State University.

PREM Undergraduates Receive Prestigious Research Fellowships

Three PREM undergraduates—Amelia Scott, Dillon Gee, and Melany Bouyer—were recently awarded $1,000 Undergraduate Research Fellowships (URF) to support their innovative projects in materials science.

PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary

Claribel Acevedo-Velez, director of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez/University of Wisconsin-Madison Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) has been named one of this year’s STEM Luminaries in recognition of her scientific contributions by Great Minds in STEM, an organization that supports broad participation in STEM.

Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education

NSF's Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials program supports new pathways enabling students to pursue science addressing real-world needs of the Navajo community