2022

  • Huaiyu (Hugo Wang) successfully defended his dissertations. Congrats to Dr. Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang!
  • Jacob Zorn was promoted to Post-Doctoral Scholar. Congrats Dr. Jacob Zorn
  • Jacob Zorn successfully defended his dissertation, "Ferroelectric Materials by Design at the Mesoscale". Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Zorn.
  • Tiannan Yang was promoted to Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations Dr. Tiannan Yang.
  • Jacob Zorn places 2nd in the Materials Visualization Contest Computational Category. Congratulations to Jacob.
  • Dr. Jinchao Xu is elected to the European Academy of Sciences
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen recieved the TMS John Bardeen Award for his outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of electronic materials.
  • Jacob Zorn and Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang receive the Newnham Award for Research Excellence. Congratulations to both Hugo and Jacob.
  • Jacob Zorn places 3rd in the Graduate Poster Contest
  • Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang received the MATSE Travel Award to travel to workshops and conferences. Hugo is using the award to attend the MRS Spring Meeting.
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Benazir Yalcin Fazlioglu successfully passed her comprehensive exam. Congratulations Benazir.
  • Welcome Dr. Wenrui Hao to the project. He will be assisting with the development of highly-efficient numerical recipes and implementation.
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen published a textbook "Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Materials" through Springer-Nature

2021

  • Hari Padmanabhan successfully defended his dissertation, "Illuminating Spin-Lattice Coupling Pathways in Layered Magnets". Congratulations to Dr. Hari Padmanabhan.
  • Jacob Zorn successfully passed his comprehensive exam. Congratulations Jacob.
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen receives the Paul F. Robertson Award for the Penn State EMS Breakthrough of the Year.
  • Tatiana Kuznetsova recieved the Coppola Graduate Student Award for Student Service and Leadership, which recognizes a graduate student who exhibits outstanding leadership and service both in and outside of the MATSE program.

2020

  • Xiaoxing Cheng successfully defended his dissertation, "Influence of defects on polarization distribution in ferroelectrics: a phase-field study". Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoxing Cheng.
  • Yin Shi successfully defended his dissertation, "Phase-Field Study of Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Vanadium Dioxide". Congratulations to Dr. Yin Shi.
  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Congratulations to Jacob Zorn for receiving the Beaver Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant for MATSE 401 "Thermodynamics of Materials"

2019

  • Dr. Long-Qing Chen is named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.
  • Dr. Jinchao Xu is recongized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  • Kickoff Meeting held in MSC N308A.