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Penn State and Dow Chemical partner to promote laboratory safety

9/12/12

This summer, Penn State began a new partnership with the Dow Chemical Co. to improve laboratory safety at the University. A diverse team of faculty, safety officers and graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (MATSE), as well as the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Office, are working with Dow to develop best practices that can be instituted across all laboratory research departments at Penn State. The goal is to improve the University's safety culture

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Oil-spill clean-up may be made easier by carbon-nanotube technology

4/16/12

For the first time, researchers at Penn State University and Rice University have created solid, spongy blocks of carbon nanotubes that have an astounding ability to clean up oil spills in water. Separating oil from seawater is just one of a range of potential applications for the new material formed using carbon and a dash of boron. The international team, which includes Mauricio Terrones, a professor of physics and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has published the results of its research in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.

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Director of National Science Foundation to speak April 5 at Penn State

4/4/12

Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak on Thursday, April 5, in Heritage Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. Part of this year's Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials, Suresh's presentation, titled "Biomechanics and Human Diseases," will begin at 11 a.m. The event will begin at 9:45 a.m. with talks by three Penn State faculty members.

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Architect appointed for Steidle Building renovation, preservation

3/16/12

Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday (March 16) approved the appointment of EYP Architecture and Engineering PC, of Albany, N.Y., as architects for the renovation of the Steidle Building in the historic core of the University Park campus. The 86,000-square-foot-building, near the intersection of Burrowes and Pollock roads, was built in 1931 and serves as teaching and research space for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' (EMS) Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices

11/28/11

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories across the U.S. who have fabricated piezoelectric thin films with record-setting properties. These engineered films have great potential for energy harvesting applications, as well as in micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS), micro actuators, and sensors for a variety of miniaturized systems, such as ultrasound imaging, microfluidics and mechanical sensing.

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In Materials Science and Engineering, lab users focus on safety

11/7/11

For students, postdocs and other researchers in Penn State's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the message is clear: you can dance if you want to, but safety is mandatory. A video focused on lab safety and set to the 1980s pop tune "Safety Dance" took hold as a centerpiece of the department's Safety Week programming this year. Since it began in 2009, Safety Week has become one of the University's most successful laboratory safety training efforts.

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Materials Research Society names Messing JMR editor-in-chief

3/31/09

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Gary L. Messing, Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Sciences and Engineering and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Materials Research (JMR).

Cool Fuel

12/1/95

Getting a jet to go to mach 4—four times the speed of sound—is a tricky business. Powerful-enough engines would run too hot, a bigger cooling system would add too much weight. The engineers' answer? Use cool fuel.

"In the emerging generation of advanced supersonic aircraft, jet fuel is the only coolant on board," says Jun Li, a graduate student in Penn State's fuel science program.

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Penn State and Dow Chemical partner to promote laboratory safety

9/12/12

This summer, Penn State began a new partnership with the Dow Chemical Co. to improve laboratory safety at the University. A diverse team of faculty, safety officers and graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (MATSE), as well as the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Office, are working with Dow to develop best practices that can be instituted across all laboratory research departments at Penn State. The goal is to improve the University's safety culture

Untitled

Oil-spill clean-up may be made easier by carbon-nanotube technology

4/16/12

For the first time, researchers at Penn State University and Rice University have created solid, spongy blocks of carbon nanotubes that have an astounding ability to clean up oil spills in water. Separating oil from seawater is just one of a range of potential applications for the new material formed using carbon and a dash of boron. The international team, which includes Mauricio Terrones, a professor of physics and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has published the results of its research in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.

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Director of National Science Foundation to speak April 5 at Penn State

4/4/12

Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak on Thursday, April 5, in Heritage Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. Part of this year's Nelson W. Taylor Lecture in Materials, Suresh's presentation, titled "Biomechanics and Human Diseases," will begin at 11 a.m. The event will begin at 9:45 a.m. with talks by three Penn State faculty members.

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Architect appointed for Steidle Building renovation, preservation

3/16/12

Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday (March 16) approved the appointment of EYP Architecture and Engineering PC, of Albany, N.Y., as architects for the renovation of the Steidle Building in the historic core of the University Park campus. The 86,000-square-foot-building, near the intersection of Burrowes and Pollock roads, was built in 1931 and serves as teaching and research space for the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' (EMS) Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices

11/28/11

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories across the U.S. who have fabricated piezoelectric thin films with record-setting properties. These engineered films have great potential for energy harvesting applications, as well as in micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS), micro actuators, and sensors for a variety of miniaturized systems, such as ultrasound imaging, microfluidics and mechanical sensing.

Untitled

In Materials Science and Engineering, lab users focus on safety

11/7/11

For students, postdocs and other researchers in Penn State's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the message is clear: you can dance if you want to, but safety is mandatory. A video focused on lab safety and set to the 1980s pop tune "Safety Dance" took hold as a centerpiece of the department's Safety Week programming this year. Since it began in 2009, Safety Week has become one of the University's most successful laboratory safety training efforts.

Untitled

Materials Research Society names Messing JMR editor-in-chief

3/31/09

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Gary L. Messing, Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Sciences and Engineering and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Materials Research (JMR).

Cool Fuel

12/1/95

Getting a jet to go to mach 4—four times the speed of sound—is a tricky business. Powerful-enough engines would run too hot, a bigger cooling system would add too much weight. The engineers' answer? Use cool fuel.

"In the emerging generation of advanced supersonic aircraft, jet fuel is the only coolant on board," says Jun Li, a graduate student in Penn State's fuel science program.