2008 News

	December 12, 2008 Congratulations to group members Marie, Matt, Alix, and Fang for successfully passing their qualifiers and advancing to Ph.D. candidacy this quarter.
	November 17, 2008 An article co-authored by D.C. Dunand and Q. Li (post-doc at NU and currently Assistant Professor at U Nevada), and E.Y. Chen (NU alumnus) and D.R. Bice (both from Transition45 Technologies, CA) made the cover of Advanced Engineering Materials: Q. Li, E.Y. Chen, D.R. Bice, and D.C. Dunand "Mechanical Properties of Cast Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo Lattice Block Structures ." Advanced Engineering Materials 10 (10) 939-942 (2008). PDF
	November 13, 2008 On October 31, 2008, David gave a talk entitled "From Matisse to Picasso -- Compositional Analysis of Modern Bronze Sculptures” at a special symposium held on the Northwestern University campus and at The Art Institute of Chicago. The symposium, “Productive Affinities: Successful Collaboration between Museums and Academia," drew more than 150 attendees representing museums, libraries, universities and foundations from around the United States and Europe to share ideas on art conservation and discuss collaborative scientific research on cultural heritage materials. Co-authors were from NU (Marcus Young and Joe Lambert) and from the AIC (Francesca Casadio and Suzie Schnepp). The research was sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More....
	November 2, 2008 Congratulations to former group member Christian Greiner who was recently awarded the von-Humboldt fellwship. In January he will begin work at the University of Pennsylvania with Professor Robert Carpick.
	October 24, 2008 President Bienen named Profs. Mark Ratner and David Dunand co-directors of the new Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) which will be supporting research, teaching and outreach at NU in these critical areas. Read the official announcement here.
	October 24, 2008 Welcome to Anselm Neurohr and Page Peiqi Zheng, the newest members of the Dunand group!
	October 2, 2008 Jordan kwok recently published his first paper with the Dunand group: P.J. Kwok, S.M. Oppenheimer, and D.C. Dunand "Porous Titanium by Electro-chemical Dissolution of Steel Space-Holders." Advanced Engineering Materials 10 (9) 820-825 (2008). PDF
	October 2, 2008 Kendra Erk recently published her first paper with the Dunand group: K.A. Erk, D.C. Dunand, and K.R. Shull "Titanium with Controllable Pore Fractions by Thermoreversible Gelcasting of TiH₂." Acta Materialia 56 (18) 4953-4954 (2008). PDF
	August 28 , 2008 David Dunand has received the 2009 TMS-SMD distinguished scientist/engineer award which recognizes an individual who has made a long lasting contribution to the fundamental understanding of microstructure, properties and performance of structural materials for industrial applications. Prior recipients are listed at: http://www.tms.org/Society/Honors/SMDScientist.html and include Prof. Greg Olson from NU.
	August 7 , 2008 Congratulations to Group alumnus, Chris Schuh, and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Meredith Christie Schuh, who was born July 17^th at 5:10 AM. She weighs in at 6 lbs, 13 oz, 19 inches long with blond hair, and, at least for the moment, blue eyes.
	July 10, 2008 Marcus was recently awarded the 2008 Acta Student Award, reflecting outstanding articles published in Acta Materialia in 2007, one of the top journals in Materials Science and Engineering. Marcus was co-advised by Dr. Dean Haeffner at Argonne National Laboratory. The three papers for which he was nominated report on experiments carried out at the Advanced Photon Source. Marcus will attend the presentation ceremony which will be at the joint MS&T Conference in Pittsburgh in early October. Congratulations!
	June 27, 2008 Rick and Ampika took part in last week's PhD hooding ceremony. Check out some photos here.
	June 24, 2008 Congratulations to Dunand Group alumna Megan Frary for being awarded the 2008 ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers. She received her MS and BS with the Dunand Group before completing her PhD with Chris Schuh (another group alumnus) at MIT.
	June 20, 2008 Congratulations to former Dunand Group member Keith Knipling for having an article listed as #9 on the "Top 25 Hottest Articles" list for Jan-March 2008 of Acta Materialia: Knipling, K.E.; Dunand, D.C.; Seidman, D.N. "Precipitation evolution in Al-Zr and Al-Zr-Ti alloys during aging at 450-600°C" Acta Materialia, 56, 6, 1182-1195 (2008)
	June 6 , 2008 Congratulations to Ampika for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis!
	May 19, 2008 Congratulations to Dr. Olivier Couteau and his wife on the birth of their son, Emir Couteau. He was born in Leige and weighs in at 3.5 kg and 49 cm tall.
	May 15, 2008 Former Dunand Group member and current Danae and Vasilios Salapatas Associate Professor of Metallurgy at MIT, Chris Schuh, was this year's keynote speaker at the annual John E. Hilliard symposium. His talk was entitled, "From the Ivory Tower to the Factory Floor: an NU Metallurgist Tries to Vertically Integrate."
	March 28, 2008 Matt recently published his first paper with the Dunand group: M.E. Krug, D.C. Dunand, and D.N. Seidman: Composition Profiles within Al3Li and Al3Sc/Al3Li Nanoscale Precipitates in Aluminum. Applied Physics Letters. 92, 124107 (2008). Congratulations, Matt!
	March 19, 2008 Congratulations to former group member, Yasumasa Chino on the birth of his daughter, who was born on March 4 and weighs in at 3,775 g.
	January 8, 2008 Research on magnetic shape-memory foams was recently highlighted in three university scientific news outlets: Northwestern University's McCormick News, Boise State University's UPDATE, and Technology Review at MIT (from which co-authors Vee and David are alumni).