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Our 2023 Awards Presentation recognizes outstanding graduate students accomplishments from the academic year.
We thank our generous alumni, friends and partners for making these awards possible for our graduate students. Their generosity is critical in furthering the mission of our department, and we thank each of our benefactors and scholarship donors for their continued support.
For more information on 2023 MatSE Awards, click here.
MatSE strives to foster and enrich the academic experiences of students who seek exceptional challenges and growth. Our 2022 Awards Presentation recognizes the superior academic undergraduate accomplishments along with other department achievements from the academic year.
We have more than 50 active scholarship opportunities available to our undergraduate students and awarded more than $250,000 to our students each year.
This would not be possible without generous support from our alumni, friends and partners. Their generosity is critical in furthering the mission of our department, and we thank each of our benefactors and scholarship donors for their continued support.
For more information on 2023 MatSE Awards, click here.
This year marked the 21st annual MatSE Awards Celebration which recognized the achievements of MatSE students, staff, faculty, and alumni whose contributions continue to make MatSE a top-ranked materials science and engineering program.
The evening was also an occasion for MatSE to express appreciation for the generous support received throughout the year from alumni, friends, and partners. It is their generosity that is critical in furthering the MatSE mission.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has elected a Penn State engineer to its College of Fellows. Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering, was inducted at the 2023 AIMBE ceremony held March 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Pan is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and with the Huck Institutes.
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Learning Factory will host its end-of-semester showcase for senior engineering students to present their capstone design projects with both in-person and virtual formats.
Displayed in Steidle Building Atrium showcase on the first floor.
Undergraduate and graduate students can enter by:
Who: The MatSE Day Contest is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State.
What: To enter the contest, students are to take selfies at their favorite place on campus and post their photo to their public Instagram using the hashtag #MatSEDay.
When: Between April 1 and April 11, 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
Where: Penn State University Park campus
Why: To increase excitement for Penn State MatSE Day, bring awareness to the Penn State MatSE Instagram account, and to have a chance a winning a really cool prize!
Other stuff: Students will only be entered into contest once, but they may post as many photos with #matseday as they want to. On a daily basis, students will be logged on a spreadsheet. At 4 p.m. on April 12 at the conclusion of MatSE Appreciation Day a winner will be chosen at random from all entries.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is administering a $46.4 million, four-year research project to develop and test a whole blood product that is storable at room temperature and can be transfused to wounded soldiers in the field within 30 minutes of injury
Alumnus Walter Moorhead, president of Product Evaluation Systems, Inc. (PES), will present the 2023 Richard E. Tressler Lecture at 3:05 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus. Moorhead’s lecture is titled “Materials science and engineering — materials lab intern to lab owner.”
Mauricio Terrones, Evan Pugh University Professor and Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, and professor of chemistry and of material science and engineering, has been named the new George A. and Margaret M. Downsbrough Head of the Department of Physics at Penn State, effective July 1. Terrones succeeds Nitin Samarth, who has served as head of the department since 2011.
From fiber optic cables to smartphones, glass is playing a major role in emerging technology. To learn more about how glass will shape future society, we spoke with Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral candidate at Penn State, who is studying with John Mauro, Penn State’s Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Kirchner is lead author and Mauro corresponding author on a recent review article on the unique properties of glass published in the journal Chemical Reviews.
