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• Xavier University of Louisiana and New York University have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster diversity among materials scientists through collaborative research and curriculum development. The award was one of eight awarded this year under NSF’s Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program and funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
  
  Under its PREM grant, Xavier and the NYU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)-one of 31 NSF-backed centers that perform interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary materials research-will develop a materials science research core at Xavier and an undergraduate materials science educational program that will introduce a materials science track within the chemistry program at the New Orleans institution.
  
  The research core will consist of several Xavier-NYU collaborative research projects that will enhance Xavier’s research infrastructure and lead to advances in nanotechnology that affect society and the commercial sector. These include new materials for energy storage, smart magnetic assemblies for advanced medical imaging, and unique diagnostics tools for detection of cancer cells based on measurements of their mechanical properties at the nanoscale. The PREM also will employ tools that probe the nanoscale properties of crystalline materials relevant to the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors. Read the complete press release from NYU's Office of Public Affairs >>
  
  
• Professor Jasna Brujic's Nature Article is also covered by the National Science Foundation, Scientific American, Time Online (UK), The New York Post, Spektrum Direkt (In German - login required), Science Daily, Taragana, news.SmasHits.com, Futurity.org, and Abril.com (In Spanish)

News Archive

• 09/30/2009 MRSEC Monthly Meeting @ NYU.
• 05/29/2009 MRSEC Directors Meeting at NYU. MORE>>
• 04/25/09 MRSEC Condensed Matter Symposia, presented by Paul Chaikin (NYU) and Pierce Coleman (Rutgers University). MORE>>
• MRSEC publication makes the cover of JACS
• 10/16/08 MRSEC Directors Meeting at the National Science Foundation, Arlington VA
• 10/30/08 National Science Foundation Awards Announcement
• 09/22/08 Press Release from the NYU Office of Public Affairs announcing the award.
• 09/22/08 Crain's New York Business Release
  

Presentation and Abstracts Archive

2008 NYU-CCNY SESMI REU Program

• Omayma Kishk, University of Mississippi, (Kirshenbaum, advisor)

• Daniel Saltiel, University of California, Berkeley, (Chaikin, advisor)

• Billy Hickling, Hofstra University, (Ward, advisor)

• Brian Nakagawa, Chaminade University (Canary, advisor)

• Mary Minnucci, Manhattan College (Couzis, advisor)

• Phil LoGrippo, Manhattan College (Tu, advisor)

• Alex Marakov, Carnegie Mellon University, (Kretzschmar, advisor)

• Veronica Murphy, William Patterson University, (Weck, advisor)

• Lan Huong Lai, University of Californa, Los Angeles (Canary, advisor)

• Sean Paradiso, University of Massachusetts, Amhearst (Pine, advisor)