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TOP left Baldwin Varner with his CU Boulder mentor, Dr. Emma Caiting TOP right FLC graduate, Terrell Curley at his new position as a Failure Analysis Engineer BOTTOM Dakota Rodriguez presenting his work atthe
MRS PREM Symposium in San Francisco.
TOP left Baldwin Varner with his CU Boulder mentor, Dr. Emma Caiting TOP right FLC graduate, Terrell Curley at his new position as a Failure Analysis Engineer BOTTOM Dakota Rodriguez presenting his work atthe MRS PREM Symposium in San Francisco.
An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening
An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening
Nov 20, 2024
Partnership for Education and Advancement of Quantum and nano-Sciences (PEAQS)

An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening

Yiyan Li, Fort Lewis College

The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed an optical system to quantify single bacterium from environmental water samples. To improve signal detection in their system, they developed a neural network, a method in artificial intelligence.
TOP NSU undergraduates performing STEM demonstrations at a local
STEM carnival day. BOTTOM FLC undergraduate Ryan Calabaza helping middle schoolers in Cortez, CO understand their local watershed and water filtration at the local water processing plant.
TOP NSU undergraduates performing STEM demonstrations at a local STEM carnival day. BOTTOM FLC undergraduate Ryan Calabaza helping middle schoolers in Cortez, CO understand their local watershed and water filtration at the local water processing plant.
Nov 20, 2024
Partnership for Education and Advancement of Quantum and nano-Sciences (PEAQS)

PEAQS students in the community

Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder

PEAQS undergraduates have been busy getting out into their local communities to get K12 students interested in STEM.
PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary
PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary
Aug 22, 2024

PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary

PREM Web Team

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
Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education
May 24, 2024

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

By Wafa Hozien

A partnership that began in 2017 between Navajo Technical University (NTU) and the U.S. National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University is providing Navajo students with new opportunities to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering while helping to address critical issues facing the Navajo Nation.
NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
Oct 5, 2023

NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director

Divya Abhat

In early 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed Germano Iannacchione as the new Division Director for its Division of Materials Research (DMR)—a division with a critical objective to invest in the discovery, development, and design of new materials.
Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis
Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis
Apr 11, 2023
PREM Center for Ultrafast Dynamics and Catalysis in Emerging Materials (C-UDCEM)

Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis

Using a method developed by Gamelin Lab at UW in 2003 to study magnetic quantum dots, we synthesize Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles with varying Co atomic % inside ZnO nanoparticles.
Collaborative  Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Feb 21, 2023
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)

Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)

NSF PREM-supported three PhD students graduates in Fall 2022 at NCAT (Fall 2022 NCAT Commencement file photo, December 9, 2022)
Collaborative  Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Feb 21, 2023
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)

Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)

The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) can be used in magnetic refrigeration, which is emerging as one of the  most promising alternatives in the modern-day quest for sustainable, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly cooling technology.
Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate: Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang
Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate: Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang
Oct 26, 2022
NSF PREM for Innovations in Materials, Processes, and Applications for Quantum Technologies (NSF PREM IMPAQT)

Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate: Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang

By Faizan

In this next edition of LIVE@Frost Science on Wednesday, October 26, physicist and Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric A. Cornell will present Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang in the Laboratory. Dr. Cornell shared in the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for synthesizing the first Bose-Einstein condensate. In his presentation, Dr. Cornell will concentrate on the work being done in the laboratory and how we can use precise measurements to look for fossils of the Big Bang.