| April 15, 2013 | Dr. Liu is elected to the ASM International Board of Trustee for a term of three years. |
| April 4, 2013 | Congratulations to Frank McGrogan for winning the “Guy and Rae Rindone Award for Academic Excellence”, which is for the highest GPA in Class of 2013! Congratulations to Christina Ciganik on receiving “The Robert M. Lindsay Award” for scholarship in physical metallurgy! |
| April 3, 2013 | Congratulations to Xuan Liu for passing the candidacy exam! |
| April 2, 2013 | Bill Wang received a grant from Stiftelsen för tillämpad termodynamik (the Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics) to participate in the CALPHAD XLII in San Sebastian, Spain on May 26th-31st, 2013. |
| March 7, 2013 | Bill Wang and Dr. Liu met a number of Phases Research Lab Alumni at the TMS 2013 Annual Meeting at San Antonio, Texas. They are Chao Jiang, Shengjun Zhang, Zhi-Gang Mei, Dongwon Shin, Guang Sheng, James Saal, and Raymundo Arroyave. |
| March 6, 2013 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for receiving TMS LMD best graduate poster award in TMS 2013 Annual Meeting at San Antonio, Texas. |
| February 6, 2013 | Jingzhi Zhu (Postdoc 2005) will move to the Koch Institute of Cancer Research in MIT in February 2013. Congratulations and welcome back to university research environment. |
| January 29, 2013 | Bill Wang is one of the ten Materials Science and Engineering International Travel Grant (Bayer Travel Fund) recipients for the 2013-2014 academic year, to be used for the Magnesium Workshop 2013 in Madrid, Spain. |
| January 24, 2013 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for passing the comprehensive exam. |
| January 22, 2013 | Congratulations to Sung Hoon Lee (PhD 2011) for winning the silver award at “SAMSUNG Best Paper Award 2012″. The title of his paper is “Enhancing phase stability and kinetics of Li-rich layered oxide for an ultra high performing cathode in Li-ion battery” among over the 1,500 papers submitted from Samsung branches with fewer than 20 papers awarded in this year. |
| December 13, 2012 | Dr. Liu met Laura Jean Lucca (BS 2010) and her husband Nick Weidman in DC. Both of them now work in the DC area. |
| December 13, 2012 | Congratulations to Guang Sheng (PhD 2011) for winning 2013 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award (EMPMD division)! He will be at the TMS meeting in San Antonio in March to accept the award. |
| December 13, 2012 | Congratulations to James Saal (PhD 2010) for winning the LMD TMS Young Leader Award! He will be at the TMS meeting in San Antonio in March to accept the award. |
| December 2, 2012 | Congratulations to Qianxue Liu and Huazhi Fang for their second son born today in State College, PA! |
| November 15, 2012 | Congratulations to Hui Zhang (PhD, 2010) and Guang Sheng (PhD, 2011) for their first baby, Ann, born tonight at Mount Carmen Saint Ann hospital in Westerville OH! It is simply wonderful. |
| November 10, 2012 | Congratulations to Chelsey Zacherl (PhD, 2012) for her terrific wedding today with Michael Hargather at Herndon, VA. Wish them all the best. |
| October 15, 2012 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for receiving the GEMS Diamond award from American Ceramic Society at MS&T, 2012! |
| October 5, 2012 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for successfully defending his MS thesis! |
| October 1, 2012 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for receiving the ACerS Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division (NETD) Student Travel Stipend to the MS & T 2012 meeting in Pittsburgh. He will be introduced to the Division and awarded the stipend at the NETD Annual Business Meeting on October 8, 2012 at the MS & T 2012. |
| August 31, 2012 | Bill Wang has been selected as a finalist for the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award from American Ceramic Society at MS&T’12. Congratulations! |
| July 9, 2012 | Yan Annabelle Ling is currently working for Accenture as a Systems Integration Analyst based in DC. She is on the federal side working with government agencies, whose current client is the Defense Logistics Agency. |
| July 6, 2012 | Congratulations to Yan Liu and Bill Wang for having their daughter born this morning! Her name is En Jia Wang. We got another junior member in our group! |
| June 12, 2012 | Congratulations to Chelsey Zacherl for having successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “An investigation of thermodynamic and diffusion properties of Ni-base superalloys for understanding materials behavior: A combined CALPHAD and first-principles study”! |
| June 3-8, 2012 | Bill Wang and Dr. Liu attended the CALPHAD meeting held at Berkeley, CA, along with PRL alumni Raymundo Arroyave and Jiajia Han and collaborators Profs. Yong Du and Xingjun Liu and their groups. The meeting photo album is available at our photo page and the calphad.org web site. |
| May 30, 2012 | During his trip to Japan, Dr. Liu visited Tohoku University and Kyushu Institute of Technology and gave a plenary talk at the International Symposium on Steel Science (ISSS 2012) and met Arkapol Saengdeejing (PhD 2011) at Tohoku University and ISSS. |
| May 7, 2012 | After his commencement, Zhi-Gang Mei (PhD 2011) visited the group. |
| May 1, 2012 | Dr. Liu visited Northwestern University on April 30 and May 1 and delivered a colloquium presentation in the department of materials science and engineering. He also met Shengjun Zhang (PhD 2006), who received an offer from Scoperta, Inc. |
| April 17, 2012 | Congratulations to Mei Yang (MS 2006) for successfully defended her PhD thesis at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on “Nitriding – fundamentals, modeling and process optimization”. A job well done. |
| April 16, 2012 | Congratulations to Yi Wang and ShunLi Shang for their promotion to Senior Research Associate effective on July 1, 2012! |
| April 13, 2012 | Congratulations to Lauren Skrabski for receiving Robert W. Lindsay Award in Metallurgy and David W. Richerdson Service Award in Materials Science and Engineering in the 2012 spring department banquet! |
| April 13, 2012 | Congratulations to Lorraine Hossain for receiving Dean’s Freshman Scholarship in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Norris B. McFarlane Scholarship, and Matthew J. Wilson Honors Scholarship in the 2012 spring department banquet! |
| April 13, 2012 | Congratulations to Bill Wang for receiving the second place on graduate poster in the 2012 spring department banquet! |
| March 26, 2012 | Congratulations to Brian Vanleeuwen, Bill Wang, and Bi-Cheng Zhou for successfully passing the candidacy exam. |
| March 19, 2012 | Dr. Liu and Brian Vanleeuwen attended the TMS meeting held last week in Orlando, Florida. The PRL alumni at the meeting included Raymundo Arroyave, Bill Golumbfskie, Xidong Hui, Yongfeng Liang, Venkateswara Rao Manga, Dongwon Shin, Mei Yang, Shengjun Zhang, and Yu Zhong. |
| Feb. 23, 2012 | The CCMD bi-annual meeting was held at Savannah, Georgia, from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22. Dr. Hui Zhang (PhD, 2010) came to the meeting, representing Diamond Innovation, Inc.. Yi Wang, Shunli Shang, Huazhi Fang, and Chelsey Zacherl presented their projects at the meeting. |
| Jan. 23, 2012 | Laura Schell (BS 2011) started to work at Guardian Industries in Carleton, MI, on cutting edge window technology. Congratulations! |
| Jan. 31, 2012 | The YPHON developed by Dr. Yi Wang in our group has been officially licensed to Army Research Lab. Congratulations. |
| Jan. 23, 2012 | Laura Schell (BS 2011) started to work at Guardian Industries in Carleton, MI, on cutting edge window technology. Congratulations! |
| Jan. 23, 2012 | Congratulations to Christina Ciganik on her acceptance into the Engineering Mentoring for Internship Excellence program at Penn State, providing her with a summer internship at ArcelorMittal in Steelton, PA for the summer of 2012! |
| Jan. 4, 2012 | Dr. Zhi-Gang Mei (PhD, 2011) will start at Argonne National Lab on February 6, 2012. Wish him all the best in the new chapter of his career! Now five people from our group went to Chicago area. |
| Jan. 3, 2012 | The YPHON and EECC developed by Dr. Yi Wang in our group have been officially licensed to URS Corp in association with the DOE National Energy Technology Lab (NETL). Congratulations. |
| Dec. 15, 2011 |
Congratulations to Zhi-Gang Mei for having successfully defended his PhD thesis! |
| Nov. 29, 2011 | During his trip to Northwestern University, Dr. Liu met James Saal (PhD, 2010) and Shengjun Zhang (PhD, 2006) and learned that Shengjun is married with one son. |
| Nov. 17, 2011 |
The SQS phonon paper by Yi Wang et al. has been selected for inclusion in IOP Select, http://Select.iop.org. IoP Select is a special collection of journal articles, chosen by IOP Editors based on one or more of the following criteria: Substantial advances or significant breakthroughs, A high degree of novelty, Significant impact on future research. |
| Nov. 5, 2011 | Congratulations to Chelsey Zacherl and her fiance Michael Hargather for their engagement this past Saturday! |
| Nov. 4, 2011 | Dr. Liu has received the 2012 Brimacombe Medalist Award from TMS. This award recognizes an individual with sustained excellence and achievement in business, technology, education, public policy, or science related to materials science and engineering. Professor Liu will receive this award at the Annual Awards dinner on Mach 13, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations! |
| Nov. 3, 2011 | Congratulations to Dr. Raymundo Arroyave (Postdoc 2006) for receiving the honorable mention in the TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow! |
| Nov. 3, 2011 | Congratulations to Dr. Raymundo Arroyave (Postdoc 2006) and his wife Berenice for the birth of their second child, a baby boy named Diego, on Oct. 24th! |
| Oct. 27, 2011 | Zhi-Gang received the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Sapphire Award from American Ceramic Society at MS&T’11. Congratulations! |
| Sept. 29, 2011 | Chelsey Zacherl passed her comprehensive exam today. Congratulations! |
| Sept. 26, 2011 | A joint proposal with Prof. Marcel A.J. Somers at Technical University of Denmark with our effort led by ShunLi Shang is granted. Congratulations to ShunLi! |
| Sept. 13, 2011 | Jingxian Zhang (PhD, 2007) has moved to GE Aviation at Cincinnati, OH. Congratulations. |
| Sept. 8, 2011 | Congratulations to Lauren Skrabski, Christina Ciganik, and Rachel Guarriello for being on the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 Dean’s List. |
| Sept. 7, 2011 | Congratulations to Qianxue Liu and Huazhi Fang for the birth of their first child, a baby boy named Andrew, today in State College, PA! |
| August 24, 2011 | Dr. Liu met Mei Yang (MS, 2006), Yu Zhong (PhD, 2005), and their 6 year old son, and Jingzhi Zhu (PostDoc, 2005), his wife, and their 2 year old daughter on the way to Boston. They are all doing very well. Mei is expecting her PhD from WPI in the near future. |
| August 9, 2011 | DongEung Kim successfully defended his dissertation titled “Thermodynamic Modeling and Prediction of Elastic and Thermal Expansion Properties of Ni-base superalloys: Application to Ni-Al-Pt-Cr-Hf system with gamma and gamma prime phases”. Congratulations!! |
| August 2, 2011 | Tao Wang (PhD 2006) became a staff member at Ames Lab. Congratulations!! |
| July 16, 2011 | Congratulations to 2010 PRL alumna Laura Jean Lucca for her engagement today. Best of luck! |
| July 14, 2011 | The PRL group attended the ICME conference at Seven Springs from July 10 to 14. PRL alumni, Mei Yang (MS, 2006), Yu Zhong (PhD, 2005), and Jingxian Zhang (PhD, 2007) were also at the meeting as shown in the conference album on our photo web page. |
| July 1, 2011 | Swetha Ganeshan (PhD 2010) will start working at Kennametal, Inc. this month. Congratulations!! |
| June 27, 2011 | DongEung Kim and Taeyi Choi welcomed their second child to the world today, Elizabeth Younha Kim, in State College. Congratulations!! |
| June 24, 2011 | Sung Hoon Lee successfully defended his dissertation titled “A study of ionic materials for the energy applications through first-principles calculations and CALPHAD modeling”. Congratulations!! |
| June 10, 2011 | Arkapol Saengdeejing successfully defended his dissertation titled “A Computational Study of Superconducting Materials: A Case Study in Carbon-doped MgB2″. Congratulations!! |
| May 28, 2011 | SungHoon Lee, Chelsey Zacherl, and Dr. Liu were at the CALPHAD meeting in the past week at Rio de Janeiro along with Dr. Shihuai Zhou (Postdoc 2004, now at Ames Lab) |
| May 17, 2011 | Congratulations to Wei Dai and Zhi-Gang Mei for their son, Steven (Diwen), born in this afternoon at Gainesville, Florida, the newest addition to the junior PRL members (over a dozen so far). |
| May 15, 2011 | Dr. Liu participated in the graduate school commencement held at Bryce Jorden Center with Swetha Ganeshan, Yan Ling, and Guang Sheng. Congratulations to all of them. |
| May 13, 2011 | Dr. Liu was on stage at the Schreyer Honors College Commencement in the afternoon for Annabelle Yan Ling and Earth and Mineral Sciences Commencement in the evening for Annabelle Yan Ling and Laural Schell. Congratulations to both. |
| May 4, 2011 | From Lucy Smith, Publisher, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, “I am writing to inform you that your article, ‘A mixed-space approach to first-principles calculations of phonon frequencies for polar materials’, published in April last year, is proving to be extremely popular, achieving over 835 downloads to date—congratulations. “ |
| April 18, 2011 | Laura Schell won the Materials Science and Engineering Service and Leadership Award at the annual MatSE awards banquet. She was President of Materials Advantage and Keramos this academic year. Congratulations! |
| April 18, 2011 | SungHoon Lee won third place in the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Research Poster Competition at the annual MatSE awards banquet. Congratulations! |
| April 18, 2011 | The 2011 group poster designed by Alyson Lieser, Chelsey Zacherl, and Brian Vanleeuwen won third place in the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Research Poster Competition at the annual MatSE awards banquet. Congratulations! |
| April 18, 2011 | Yan (Annabelle) Ling won second place in the Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Competition at the annual MatSE awards banquet. She was also recognized for two scholarships, the Sam Zerfoss Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Penn State Metallurgy Alumni Scholarship. Good work! |
| April 18, 2011 | At the annual MatSE awards banquet, Lauren Skrabski was recognized for her leadership of Supply Logistics Hardware and Lumber Captain, 2011 Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon. She was also the Secretary of Materials Advantage and Keramos. |
| April 16, 2011 | Dr. Liu met Laura Jean Lucca (BS 2010) and Bradley Hasek (MS 2010) at today’s MatSE Pig Roast event. Lauren Skrabski was in charge of the event, and Jiong Wang and Zhi-Gang Mei also attended. |
| April 10, 2011 | Dr. Liu receives the Faculty Mentoring Award of College of Earth and Mineral Science at Penn State during the Wilson Banquet. |
| April 8, 2011 | Yan (Annabelle) Ling successfully defended her MS thesis titled “First-principles calculations and thermodynamic modeling of the Hf-Re binary system with extension to the Hf-Ni-Re ternary system”. Congratulations!! |
| April 6, 2011 | Yi Wang’s Yphon paper is selected as part of the journal’s Highlights of 2010 by Institute of Physics |
| April 5, 2011 | Chelsey Zacherl received first place at the 2011 College of Engineering Research Symposium for her paper and presentation on “First-principles calculations and thermodynamic modeling of the Re-Ti system”. |
| April 4, 2011 | Brian VanLeeuwen received an Honorable Mention from the 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Congrats! |
| April 1, 2011 | Guang Sheng (PhD 2011) started working at Scientific Forming Technologies. |
| March 29, 2011 | Dr. Liu visited Diamond Innovations at Worthington, OH, where Hui Zhang (PhD, 2010) is currently working, to discuss potential collaborations. |
| March 18, 2011 | Sung Hoon Lee received a grant from Stiftelsen för tillämpad termodynamik (the Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics) to attend the XL CALPHAD meeting in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. |
| March 14, 2011 | Guang Sheng successfully defended his dissertation titled “Phase-field simulation of phase transitions, domain stabilities and structures in ferroelectric thin films”. Congratulations!! |
| March 11, 2011 | Guang Sheng received the Iris Ovshinsky Student Travel Award, given by the American Physical Society-Division of Materials Physics, to attend the APS March meeting in Dallas,TX. http://www.aps.org/units/dmp/newsletters/winter2011.cfm |
| March 10, 2011 | Chelsey Zacherl received a CALPHAD Scholarship to attend the XL CALPHAD meeting in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. |
| March 4, 2011 | Dr. Liu chaired the Hume-Rothery Symposium at 2011 TMS annual meeting honoring Prof. John Agren (Dr. Liu’s PhD advisor) as the recipient of the award and had a dinner with PRL alumni Raymundo Arroyave, Bill Golumbfskie, Xidong Hui, Dongwon Shin, Tao Wang, and Shengjun (Dennis) Zhang at the meeting. |
| Jan 1, 2011 | Chelsey Zacherl and Zhi-Gang Mei are two of the ten Materials Science and Engineering International Travel Grant recipients for the 2010-2011 academic year, to be used for the CALPHAD meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Dongwon Shin (PhD, 2006) receives a 2011 TMS Young Leader Award. Congratulations! |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Guang Sheng received the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Award at the 2010 Fall MRS meeting. |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Lauren Skrabski became the first recipient of the Ellwood Group Annual Metallurgy Scholarship at Penn State. Congratulations on such an amazing achievement. |
| Oct 31, 2010 | The first manuscript led by an undergraduate student, Abdelaziz Elmadani, titled “Effect of Lead Oxide Vapor on the Strength of Alumina”, is accepted by Int. J. Appl. Ceram. Technol. for publication. |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Lauren Skrabski received a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Travel Grant and a Penn State Old Main Undergraduate Travel Grant to attend the annual MS&T 2010 conference in Houston, TX. |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Swetha Ganeshan successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “A first-principles study of elastic and diffusion properties of Mg based alloys.” Congratulations! She will be a postdoc at Northwestern University. |
| Oct 15, 2010 | Sandra Watson received an Earth and Mineral Sciences Staff Centennial Award. Congratulations and thank you for all of your hard work! |
| Sept 29, 2010 | Guang Sheng received the 2010 MatPAC (Materials Pennsylvania Coalition) Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Congratulations! |
| Sept 22, 2010 | Chelsey Zacherl and Zhi-Gang Mei received a grant from Stiftelsen för tillämpad termodynamik (the Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics) to participate in the INSTN/CEA winter school on Fundamentals of Thermodynamic Modelling of Materials in Saclay, France in November 2010. |
| Sept 21, 2010 | James Saal successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Thermodynamic Modeling of Phase Transformations: Cobalt Oxides.” Congratulations! He will be a postdoc at Northwestern University. |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Hui Zhang successfully defended her PhD dissertation on “Thermodynamic Properties of Mg Based Alloys by CALPHAD Approach Couple with First-Principles: Application of Mg-Al-Ca-Ce-Si System.” Congratulations! She will work at Diamond Innovations. |
| Aug 26, 2010 | SungHoon Lee successfully passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations. |
| Aug 12, 2010 | Dong Eung Kim successfully passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations. |
| July 27, 2010 | Congratulations to Seung Nam Noh and Sung Hoon Lee for their twin sons, Andrew (Jae Hyeok Lee) and Ryan (Jae Won Lee), born in the morning at State College. |
| July 23, 2010 | Bill and Chelsey received the Poster Awards of The Gordon Research Conference on High Temperature Materials, Processes & Diagnostics. |
| June 2, 2010 | Carl Brubaker (MS, 2002) received the 2009-2010 Metallurgical Engineering Assistant’s Award from the Philadelphia ASM chapter. |
| June 1, 2010 | ShunLi Shang, Chelsey Zacherl, and Maddie Boyer go to Central South University in Changsha, Hunan, P.R.C. as visiting scholars for a month to work in Dr. Yong Du’s group. |
| May 7, 2010 | Guang Sheng received the 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Aboard. |
| May 4, 2010 | Yi Wang’s Yphon paper is featured on the web site of Institute of Physics at http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/labtalk-article/42532 |
| May 4, 2010 | Arkapol Saengdeejing successfully passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations |
| April 28, 2010 | Zhi-Gang Mei successfully passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations |
| April 22, 2010 | Both Swetha Ganeshan and James Saal successfully passed their comprehensive exams. Congratulations. |
| April 19, 2010 | Both DongEung Kim and James Saal received the Graduate Research Excellence Award. |
| April 19, 2010 | Chelsey Zacherl won second place in the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Research Poster Competition. |
| April 19, 2010 | Abdelaziz Elmadani won the first place in Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. |
| April 6, 2010 | Chelsey Zacherl received an Honorable Mention from the 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. |
| April 5, 2010 | Bradley Hasek successfully defended his master thesis on “Thermodynamic modeling and first-principles calculations of the Cr-Hf-Y ternary system” |
| March 29, 2010 | DongEung Kim and Arkapol Saengdeejing received a grant from the Stiftelse för tillämpad termodynamik (Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics) to participate in the CALPHAD conference this year in Jeju, Korea. |
| March 28, 2010 | Guang Sheng received a third place award in the 2010 Graduate Exhibition of Penn State. |
| March 5, 2010 | Chelsey Zacherl passed the candidacy exam. Congratulations. |
| Feb 27, 2010 | Guang Sheng received TMS EMPMD best graduate poster award in TMS 2010 Annual Meeting at Seattle, WA |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Arkapol Saengdeejing received the CALPHAD Scholarship for attending the meeting in Jeju, Korea. |
| Jan 7, 2010 | Congratulations to Yan Ling and Justin Savrock for being on the Fall 2009 Dean’s List |
| Dec 17, 2009 | James Saal received the TMS Student Travel Grant to attend the TMS annual meeting in Seattle in Feb. 2010. |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Dr. Liu visited Jingxian Zhang (PhD, 2007) and his colleagues at Carpenter Technology at Reading, PA. |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Laura Jean Lucca received a Student Leader Scholarship through the Penn State Division of Student Affairs. This scholarship is in recognition of her work as Secretary with The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Student Council over the past three years. |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Congratulations to Priya and Venkateswara Rao Manga for their son Venkat Shivank born in the afternoon at State College. |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Dr. Liu participated at the dinner and dance party at Paxion, PA, by Bill Golumbfskie (PhD, 2005) to celebrate his wedding on Oct. 16 at Minnesota. |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Manjeera Mantina (PhD, 2008) gave birth to her son Prahalada today. Congratulations. |
| Nov 2, 2009 | We had a great time at MS & T 2009 with 3 research associates/postdoc, 10 graduate students, and 4 undergraduate students from our group presented at the meeting, giving total 19 presentations. We also met our alumni Raymundo Arroyave and Bill Golumbfskie. |
| Nov 1, 2009 | Laura Schell was elected to Trustee of National Keramos. |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Laura Jean Lucca on the cover of ASM International member journal, Vol. 167, No. 10 |
| Oct 4, 2009 | Dr. Liu met Dongwon Shin at the USAMP project meeting in Detroit. Dongwon received the Weinberg fellowship at ORNL and will join ORNL in the near future. |
| Sept 28, 2009 | Dr. Liu visited Carpenter Technology where Jingxian Zhang is working. |
| Sept 16, 2009 | Both Guang Sheng and Chelsey Zacherl received honorable mention award in 2009-2010 EMS Graduate student poster exhibition |
| July 22, 2009 | The SEEMS group advised by Sung Hoon Lee won the first place this year. |
| July 16, 2009 | Laura Jean received the TMS Light Metals Division Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to full-time students majoring in materials science and engineering with an emphasis on traditional and emerging light metals. Laura Jean will be traveling to Seattle in February to be presented with the award. |
| July 15, 2009 | Laura Jean received the George A. Roberts Scholarship through the ASM Foundation. This award will be presented at the ASM Luncheon at the MS&T Conference in Pittsburgh in October. |
| June 19, 2009 | Weiming Feng successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Phase-field models of microstructure evolution and new numerical strategies”. |
| June 1, 2009 | ShunLi Shang, James Saal, and Yan Ling go to Central South University in Changsha, Hunan, P.R.C. as visiting scholars for a month to work in Dr. Yong Du’s group. |
| June 1, 2009 | Laura Jean received the Charles W. Finkl Fund Scholarship. This award is given through the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation. |
| April 22, 2009 | Jingxian Zhang (PhD, 2007) accepted a position at Carpenter Technology in Reading, PA. |
| April 20, 2009 | The Phases Research Lab poster, designed by James Saal and Chelsey Zacherl, wins the first place in graduate research poster competition. |
| April 12, 2009 | Laura Jean Lucca received the ASM Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter’s Scholarship for the third time and will be awarded in May at their monthly dinner. |
| April 3, 2009 | Congratulations to Taeyi Choi and DongEung Kim for their son, David Yeonu Kim, born last night at State College. |
| April 2, 2009 | Bill Golumbfskie (PhD, 2005) now works at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, West Bethesda, Maryland. |
| April 1, 2009 | Congratulations to Yan Li and Jingxian Zhang (PhD, 2007) for their daughter, Chloe, born today. |
| March 27, 2009 | Guang Sheng passed his comprehensive exam. |
| March 25, 2009 | Both Swetha Ganeshan and Guang Sheng received the Kennametal Fellowship Award. |
| March 22, 2009 | Laura Jean Lucca was awarded with the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Ellen Steidle Achievement Award for Juniors. This award is given to a Junior student who has been particularly active in advancing the welfare and improvement of the College and its student body. |
| March 9, 2009 | James Saal received a grant from the Stiftelse för tillämpad termodynamik (Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics) to participate in the CALPHAD-conference in Prague in May 2009 |
| March 6, 2009 | Zhi-Gang Mei successfully passed the candidacy exam. |
| March 5, 2009 | Hui Zhang and Guang Sheng will get married in April 2009. |
| March 3, 2009 | Laura Jean Lucca received the Charles and Sharon Bell Scholarship for Citizenship and Leadership. This is a Penn State award that recognizes students who give leadership and citizenship to the community. |
| Jan 29, 2009 | James Saal received the CALPHAD Scholarship for attending the CALPHAD meeting in Prague in May 2009. |
| Jan 17, 2009 | PRL alumna, Mei Yang (MS, 2006), will start her PhD program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with Prof. Sisson. |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Sung Hoon Lee is getting married this month. |
| Dec 11, 2008 | Guang Sheng received the TMS student travel grant for attending the TMS 2009 Annual Meeting at San Francisco. |
| Dec 8, 2008 | Carl Brubaker (MS, 2002) now works at Stork Materials Technology, Newtown, PA |
| Nov 24, 2008 | James Saal received the Bayer International Travel Grant for attending the CALPHAD meeting in Prague in May 2009. |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Laura Jean Lucca was elected to the 2008/2009 Undergraduate Research Fellows in the department. |
| October 15, 2008 | Guang Sheng received a Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) sapphire award at the Materials Science and Technology 2008 Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, given by the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society. |
| October 7, 2008 | Following alumni were at the MS & T meeting: Raymundo Arroyave, Melissa Marshall, Dongwon Shin, Shengjun Zhang, along with many from Penn State. |
| October 7, 2008 | Brad Hasek was awarded a FeMET Scholarship from AISI for his active academic achievements and interest in the iron and steel industry. |
| October 6, 2008 | Laura Jean Lucca was awarded the John M. Haniak Scholarship at MS&T 2008, which is given to an outstanding undergraduate member of ASM International at the junior or senior level who demonstrates exemplary academic and personal achievements, as well as interest in metallurgy or materials science and engineering. |
| August 25, 2008 | Chelsey Zacherl was awarded the 2008/2009 Anne C. Wilson Graduate Student Fellowship from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, which recognizes outstanding students enrolled in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. |
| July 10, 2008 | Manjeera Mantina successfully defended her PhD thesis on “First-principles Methodology for Diffusion Coefficients in Pure Metals and Dilute Alloys” |
| June 23, 2008 | James Saal received the NASA Space Grant Fellowship for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 academic years from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium. |
| June 2, 2008 | Laura Jean Lucca received the ASM International Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter Scholarship and the Charles W. Finkl Fund Scholarship. |
| April 27, 2008 | Yan (Anne) Ling and Laura Jean Lucca were elected to the 2007/2008 Undergraduate Research Fellows in the department. |
| April 26, 2008 | Zi-Kui Liu received the Wilson Award for Excellence in Research, College of Earth and Mineral Science, Pennsylvania State University. http://www.ems.psu.edu/research/Research/wilsonresearch.htm, http://www.matse.psu.edu/news/stories/Wilson%20Awards%202008.html, http://www.matse.psu.edu/news/docs/2008%20Wilson%20Program.pdf |
| April 26, 2008 | Laura Jean Lucca received the Charles and Sharon Bell Scholarship for Citizen and Leadership Award, a University wide award at Penn State. |
| April 14, 2008 | Manjeera Mantina led our first paper accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters: LC11234: First principles calculations of self-diffusion coefficients. Vol. 100, 2008, 215901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.215901 |
| April 13, 2008 | Soon Il Lee received The American Ceramic Society Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award for the paper “Modified Phase Diagram for the Barium Oxide-Titanium Dioxide System for the Ferroelectric Barium Titanate” published in the Journal of The American Ceramic Society 90 [8] 2589-2594 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.01794.x |
| April 12, 2008 | First Phases Research Lab Retreat was held this week at Toftrees. |
| April 11, 2008 | Matt Benzio joined Rolls Royce Energy Systems in Mt. Vernon, OH. The facility manufactures and packages power turbines and compressors for natural gas pipelines. Matt worked for his BS in our lab in 2004. We wish him good luck in the new position. |
| April 11, 2008 | Hui Zhang successfully passed her comprehensive exam today. |
| April 3, 2008 | Jingxian Zhang received the Academic Excellence Award of the Intercollege Graduate Program in MatSE. |
| March 28, 2008 | Zi-Kui Liu visited Raymundo Arroyave at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A & M University. Raymundo was with us from April 2004 to July 2006. |
| March 17, 2008 | Hui Zhang received the Kennametal Fellow award, http://www.matse.psu.edu/news/stories/Kennametal%202008.html |
| Mach 14, 2008 | Following alumni were at the TMS meeting: Raymundo Arroyave, Chao Jiang, Tao Wang, Jingxian Zhang, Shengjun Zhang, along with Yi Wang and Swetha Ganeshan from Penn State. |
| March 12, 2008 | Zi-Kui Liu became a member of the TMS Board of Directors, http://www.tms.org/Society/government/board/Liu.html |
| March 7, 2008 | DongEung Kim successfully passed the Candidacy Exam. |
| March 1, 2008 | Zi-Kui Liu is elected as a Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Central South University by China Ministry of Education, http://www.cksp.edu.cn/news/6/6-20080220-218.htm, http://www.matse.psu.edu/news/stories/Chang%20Jiang%20Chair.html |
| February 10, 2008 | Shunli Shang received the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award (http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/current/funding/programs/roymatres/roymatresrecipients.cfm) |
