Congratulations to PhD student Babak Anasori! He won the “2013 Continuing Teaching Excellence Award”. Undergraduate students and faculty nominate graduate student TAs for the awards, and recipients are determined by a Teaching Excellence Committee based on the nominations, recommendation letters and recipients’ teaching portfolio.
The 2013 awards were presented at the “Graduate Student Day”, held on May 23, 2013.
Congratulations to Nina Lane! She successfully defended her PhD thesis on Monday, April 15, 2013.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Babak Anasori! He received the competitive George Hill, Jr. Endowed Fellowship.
The fellowship is a highly competitive award offered by Drexel University for qualified candidates for the PhD program in an interdisciplinary program or research area in the College of Engineering.
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, the MAX Phase research group participated in Philly Materials Day, an exciting materials-focused event to introduce the general public to the world of materials science.
Philly Materials Day is an event hosted at Drexel University in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania that involves demos and activities by students, faculty, and contributions from local industry.
The ceramics lab demo was put on by MAX group PhD students Justin Griggs, Darin Tallman, and Nina Lane, along with visiting researcher Ivy Yan and B.S. student Matthias Agne.
Check out the video of Nina conducting the Prince Rupert’s drop glass demo.
Justin Griggs explaining superconductor physics.
Ivy Yan showing the superconductor train on a magnetic track.
Darin Tallman demonstrating the heat dissipation of a space shuttle tile.
Nina Lane making a Prince Rupert’s drop to demonstrate the effects of stresses within glass.
Ph.D. student Babak Anasori won second place in the “Science as Art” competition in the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting . His artistic image “The Happy 2-D World” was a combination of 3 different scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of MXene particles. The MXene particles were fabricated by Ph.D. student Michael Naguib.
Babak also gave a talk at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Symposium GG: Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Nanostructured Materials. His talk was entitled “Nano-grained Mg Composites Reinforced with MAX Phases.”
Congratulations to Justin Griggs! He successfully defended his PhD proposal December 7, 2012.
See his abstract here.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Babak Anasori! His electron microscopy images won both the second and the third places in 2012 Graduate Research Photo Contest in Drexel University .
Ph.D. students Babak Anasori and Michael Naguib received the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society for their work on “Green MXene Turtle”. This award is presented for the best ceramographic work at the annual meeting of the American Ceramic Society and consists of a monetary award and a Steuben glass artifact. Their entry also received the first place in the Scanning Electron Microscopy Category. The SEM image that was captured by Babak shows MXene particles (Michael’s research). The MS&T conference took place October 7-11 in Pittsburgh, PA.
“Green MXene Turtle”
Babak Anasori, Michael Naguib, Yury Gogotsi, Michel W. Barsoum
PhD student Babak Anasori received Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award through the American Ceramics Society, with a Diamond ranking!
Babak was one of 10 finalists to receive the GEMS award at MS&T in Pittsburgh (see information here), and was then selected as one of the top three students to receive the Diamond award based on his presentation on MS&T.
A list of the winners is posted here.
Congratulations!
Watch the video about MXene on Inside Science TV.