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Junior Rebecca Snyder<br />
received a second-place<br />
prize for her poster<br />
titled “Use of Ferrogels<br />
to Improve Catheter<br />
Navigational Control:<br />
Neurointerventional<br />
Rebecca Snyder Radiology-Based<br />
Applications.” The poster session was part<br />
of the <strong>Carnegie</strong> <strong>Mellon</strong> course, Surgery for<br />
<strong>Engineering</strong>, <strong>and</strong> was attended by many local<br />
physicians <strong>and</strong> surgeons.<br />
MSE seniors Nicole<br />
Cates <strong>and</strong> Esther Yu<br />
have both been awarded<br />
prestigious NSF Graduate<br />
Fellowships. NSF awards<br />
approximately 1,000<br />
graduate fellowships per<br />
Nicole Cates year, in keeping with its<br />
mission to ensure the<br />
vitality of the human<br />
resource base of science,<br />
technology, engineering,<br />
<strong>and</strong> mathematics in the<br />
US—as well as to reinforce<br />
its diversity. These<br />
Esther Yu fellowships provide three<br />
years of support for graduate study leading<br />
to research-based masters or doctoral<br />
degrees. The Graduate Research Fellowship<br />
Program (GRFP) invests in graduate education<br />
for a range of diverse individuals who<br />
demonstrate their potential to successfully<br />
complete graduate degree programs.<br />
This fall, Yu will begin doctoral studies in<br />
the Bioengineering Department at the<br />
University of Pennsylvania, while Cates will<br />
pursue her doctoral degree in <strong>Materials</strong><br />
<strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> at Stanford<br />
University.<br />
MSE Gets a Facelift<br />
I<br />
n the summer of 2006, the Department of <strong>Materials</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> gave<br />
its Wean Hall corridors a much-needed renovation. Gone are the dismal <strong>and</strong><br />
depressing gray concrete walls <strong>and</strong> floors. Each hallway received a bright coat of paint,<br />
modern flooring, <strong>and</strong> new signage. The change is refreshing—<strong>and</strong> MSE is now the envy<br />
of Wean Hall!<br />
Before<br />
RECENT PH.D. THESES<br />
Tricia Bennett<br />
“Abnormal Grain Growth in Fe-1%Si”<br />
ADVISOR: Anthony D. Rollett<br />
Nan Boonyachut<br />
“The Cellular Transformation in Cu-Ti<br />
Age-Hardening Alloys”<br />
ADVISOR: David E. Laughlin<br />
Daniel J. Ewing<br />
“Inhomogeneities <strong>and</strong> Their Effect on the<br />
Electrical Characteristics of Schottky<br />
Contacts to n-Type 4H-SiC”<br />
ADVISOR: Lisa M. Porter<br />
Sungwook Huh<br />
“Deep Level Defects in SiC Crystals<br />
Grown by Halide CVD Method”<br />
ADVISOR: Marek Skowronski<br />
Pallav Kaushik<br />
“Mixed Burden Softening <strong>and</strong> Melting<br />
Phenomena”<br />
ADVISOR: Richard J. Fruehan<br />
Balasubramaniam R. Kavaipatti<br />
“Phase Competition <strong>and</strong> Thin Film Growth<br />
After<br />
of Layered Ferroelectrics <strong>and</strong> Related<br />
Perovskite Phases”<br />
ADVISOR: Paul A. Salvador<br />
Paolo Nolli<br />
“Initial Solidification Phenomena: Factors<br />
Affecting Heat Transfer in Strip Casting”<br />
ADVISOR: Alan W. Cramb<br />
Changyong Um<br />
“Fe-Based Amorphous <strong>and</strong> Nanocrystalline<br />
Nanocomposite <strong>Materials</strong>”<br />
ADVISOR: Michael E. McHenry<br />
Martín E. Valdez<br />
“Controlled Undercooling of Liquid Iron: Effect<br />
of Substrate Composition <strong>and</strong> Undercooling”<br />
ADVISORS: Sridhar Seetharaman <strong>and</strong><br />
Alan W. Cramb<br />
Sai Prasanth Venkateswaran<br />
“Domain Structure Investigations in Multiferroic<br />
Heusler Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy”<br />
ADVISOR: Marc De Graef<br />
Wanlin Wang<br />
“The Heat Transfer Phenomenon Across<br />
Moldflux to Copper Mold in Continuous Casting”<br />
ADVISOR: Alan W. Cramb<br />
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