Spring Semester 2011

• Controlling chemistry improves potential of carbon nanotubes
• Sometimes Size Does Matter
• Rokita Elected AAAS Fellow
• NanoCenter Members Named APS Fellows
• Fuhrer Group Makes Magnetic New Graphene Discovery
• Elisabeth Smela Promoted to Full Professor
• Dean's Doctoral Research Awards Announced
• Ghodssi delegate to World Micromachine Summit
• "Pocket Change Spectroscopy" Improves Detection of Toxins, Explosives
• See How Materials Scientists and Conservators are "Silver Savers"
• Earth Day Event to Focus on Energy
• New MEMS handbook is comprehensive, practical resource for academics, engineers, students
• ECE Researchers Publish Article in RSC Journal on High Energy Density Flexible Galvanic Cell
• Sarah Bergbreiter wins NSF CAREER Award
• Student Poster Competition in Optics and Photonics
• Fourkas Group's Lithography Techniques Featured in Nature Chemistry
• Waks Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
• State Ranked Highly in Technology and Science Index
• Cumings, Seog Win NSF CAREER Awards for Nanotech

Fall Semester 2010

• Ghodssi is guest editor for special issue of Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
• Banerjee's Self-Powered Solar Circuits Featured in Sierra Magazine
• Bad Virus Put to Good Use
• Seed Grant Program Announced
• Invitation Honors Murphy as Educational Innovator
• Banerjee's Self-Powered Solar Circuits Featured in Sierra Magazine
• Iliadis Lectures on "Nanosensors for Critical Environments"
• Salamanca-Riba Silicon Carbide Research Highlighted by NIST
• NIST Awards NanoCenter $15 Million to Support Postdoc Nanotechnology Research
• Peter Dykstra wins bioengineering poster award
• Materials Scientists, Conservators Join Forces to Preserve Silver Artifacts and Art
• Ph.D. student Konstantinos Gerasopoulos wins best poster award
• UMD and UMass Chemists Design Cloaked, Anti-Cancer Toxin to Kill Tumors from Within
• Galloway, Gregorczyk, Gremillion awarded L-3 Graduate Research Fellowships
• Takeuchi, German Colleagues Collaborate on Materials Research
• Cumings Receives DOE Grant
• $15M Neutron Scattering Collaboration with NIST Renewed
• A Longer Life for Lithium Ion Batteries
• Oehrlein Receives IBM Faculty Award
• New Battery Research Highlighted by Discovery News, Nanowerk

Spring Semester 2010

• Work by grad student Parag Banerjee cited in MRS Bulletin
• Influence of Polymer Structure on Plasma-Polymer Interactions in Resist Materials
• Karcz Takes 2nd In Dean's M.S. Thesis Competition
• Banerjee Takes 3rd In Dean's Doctoral Research Award Competition
• Clark School honors Rajkowski, Beyaz, Banerjee for student research
• Is It Safe to Breathe Yet?
• Espy-Wilson, Rubloff Are Top UM Inventors
• Reza Ghodssi to Participate in EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
• A Solar-Powered Circuit, But No Solar Cell Required
• Reza Ghodssi guest edits special issue of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
• UM Progresses in Solar Decathlon 2011 Competition
• Stopping Bacterial Infections Without Antibiotics
• Micro-ball bearing research featured in Micro Manufacturing magazine

Fall Semester 2009

• Clark School hosts PowerMEMS 2009 attendees for luncheon, lab tours
• Rubloff Group Research Selected for Highlights in Chemical Technology.
• Bar-Cohen Wins Luikov Medal
• Reza Ghodssi Appointed Director of the Institute for Systems Research
• ECE Research Review Day To Showcase Innovation, Oct. 9
• Attend "Financing Renewable Energy" Sept. 22
• $2M for New Magnetometer Technology
• Cumings Leads EFRC Nanowire Team

Spring Semester 2009

• Ghodssi Receives NSF Grant for Novel Nanofabrication for Energy Applications
• Ghodssi Receives NSF Grant for Microball Bearings Research
• Ghodssi, Wang, Culver Awarded Nanobiotechnology Grant
• Clark School Names First UMERC Director
• Berlin Takes 2nd in Dean's M.S. Thesis Competition
• UMERC/Nanocenter Team Named "Energy Frontier" Center
• Fuhrer Promoted to Full Professor
• Adomaitis Promoted to Full Professor
• Ghodssi Promoted to Full Professor
• Parag Banerjee Wins Presidential Student Award
• Ghodssi Featured in Mechanical Engineering Magazine Cover Story
• ECE Faculty Win DoD Awards
• NanoCenter Improves Energy Storage Options
• Paper Named 2008 'Highlight' by Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
• Stephan Koev Wins University-Wide Graduate Research Contest
• Student research: Xiaolong Luo
• Waks Receives NSF CAREER Award
• O'Shea Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher

Fall Semester 2008

• Mayergoyz Co-Authors New Book
• Materials and Interface Nanotechnology Laboratory Opens
• Bentley Featured in CNN Story on Bioterrorism
• Takeuchi Team Discovers Material to Reduce Lead in Electronics
• Banerjee Named John and Maureen Hendricks Energy Research Fellow
• Banerjee Earns Patent for Magnetic/Flash Hybrid RAM
• Williams' Research Published in PNAS
• Darryll Pines Named Dean of the Clark School
• O'Connor Honored for Lab Tour
• Ghodssi team's micro ball bearing work makes miniature machines possible

Spring Semester 2008

• Ghodssi Named Associate Editor of JMEMS
• Ghodssi, Rubloff receive bioMEMS patent
• Nanocenter Team Among Invention of the Year Finalists
• Ghodssi Named Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor
• Reza Ghodssi named associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Microdevices
• New Bioengineering Wing Unveiled
• New Advance in Biochip Research
• Bergbreiter wins 2008 DARPA Young Faculty Award
• Eichhorn Research Increasing Fuel Cell Efficiency
• Fuhrer Recognized for Graphene Research
• Ehrman Receives TEDCO Funding
• Chuang Earns Intel Achievement Award
• Cumings Group Invents New Microscopy Technique
• UMD Nano Featured in National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Mote Visits NISPLab
• Engineering Curriculum Development Recognized by NSF and IOP

Fall Semester 2007

• NISPLab Welcomes UMD VP for Research
• U.S. Intel-Tech Agency Will Locate at Maryland's Research Park
• Martinez-Miranda Elected APS Fellow
• Times Higher Ranks UM Highly
• UMD Nano Research Featured on NBR
• Desai Program Chair of IEEE 2008 BioRob Conference
• "Nature-Made" Computers
• O'Shea Elected Fellow of AAAS
• $600K Gift Creates Hong Ji Fellowship
• UMD To Host NanoBiotechnology for Defense Applications Workshop
• Bentley Named Fischell Distinguished Professor
• Senior NSF Advisor in Nanotechnology to Speak in College Park
• Ghodssi, Rubloff part of $2 million NSF grant
• Davis Organizes International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry

Spring Semester 2007

• NanoCenter Director Interviewed by Nanotechnology.com
• Kofinas, Payne Interviewed for PBS’ Nightly Business Report
• Fisher Awarded Stem Cell Research Funds
• Ghalichechian Receives Outstanding Graduate Student Award
• Maryland Named as Leader in Nano and Micro Technologies
• Ph.D. Student Receives AVS Graduate Research Award
• Rabin Named Interim Clark School Dean
• Ghodssi Invited to Participate in NAE Frontiers Symposium
• Min Ouyang to Offer Fall Course in Nanotechnology
• Sang Bok Lee Wins Faculty Excellence Award
• Maryland NanoCenter places high in SMALLTIMES rankings
• Fourkas Review Published in Materials Today
• Dean Farvardin Promoted to UMD Provost
• Molecular Imprint Technology Shows Promise Fighting Viruses
• MEMS Lab Wins IEEE Competition
• Min Ouyang Receives Beckman Young Investigators Award
• You're Invited: May 3 Fischell Festival
• Min Ouyang Receives ONR Young Investigator Award
• Rubloff, Bentley quoted in Business Gazette's 'nanofactories' story
• FabLab Partnership Earns NASA Awards
• MEMS research of Morgan and Ghodssi featured in NASA Tech Briefs
• "Side Effects May Not Include…"
• Nanomedicine Research Day 2007
• NanoCenter designated as UMD University Research Center
• Baltimore Business Journal Highlights Maryland's Nano Research

Fall Semester 2006

• Cumings to Participate in Exchange Program
• Long and Takeuchi Group Win Second Bruker AXS Scholarship
• NanoCenter research members receive $500k NSF MRI award
• Cumings Invited to Speak at American Physical Society
• FDA Acting Commissioner Visits Bioengineering
• NSF Funds Microscopy Facility Upgrades
• $1 Million For Nano-Bio Initiative
• NSF Grant Enhances NISP Lab's Capabilities
• Crabs help detect dangerous nano particles

Spring Semester 2006

• Fourkas Featured on "Science and Society"
• NIST Awards Maryland Nanocenter $1.5M Nanotechnology Grant
• State Approves $3.65 Million for NanoCenter
• Nanotech dazzles at College Park
• MSE Student Wins Best Poster Award at MEMS Alliance Special Topics Symposium
• U. Maryland Baltimore medical schools highlight NanoCenter partnership
• Journal of Micromechanics & Microengineering Features Ghodssi MEMS Paper
• NanoCenter Featured in CMPS Continuum
• Dr. Ghodssi's Optical MEMS Work Featured in Compound Semiconductor
• WUSA-9 Highlights NanoCenter Advances in Energy by Wang and Jackson
• Dr. Min Ouyang Selected as Sloan Fellow, Receives CAREER Award
• Fourkas Expands Ability to Fabricate Microscale 3-D Structures
• Ultrasensitive Proteomics to be Pursued by DeVoe, Lee, and English for NIH
• Maryland NanoCenter Addresses Nanotech Health and Environment Concerns
• Lockheed Martin visits nanocenter

Fall Semester 2005

• Fischell Department of Bioengineering announced
• Oehrlein Honored for Plasma Process Research
• Williams' work featured by nano journals
• PBS Nightly Business Report Features Maryland NanoCenter
• Rep. Hoyer Announces UMD Center for Nanoparticle Risk Research
• IMEC Tech Networking Seminar at Maryland
• Virus assembly demonstrated by Culver, Yi, cited in nanotechweb.
• NSF Renews Support for MRSEC
• Takeuchi's Combinatorial Materials Research Featured in Materials Today
• New Nano Minor is opening for undergraduates.
• Lathrop Named Acting Director of IREAP
• UMB Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery opens
• Role of Kim Building Emphasized in Press
• University Newspaper Outlook Highlights Maryland NanoCenter
• Oehrlein, Phaneuf, and Collaborators Win NSF NIRT for Plasma Processing of Nanostructured Polymers
• Zachariah and Collaborators Receive NSF NIRT Award for Nanoparticles and Toxicology
• Lee's Magnetic Nanotubes Promise Medical Advances
• Small Times Features New Chesapeake Nanotech Initiative
• UMD Reaches Top Tier in Nano and Micro Ranking by Small Times Magazine
• Williams is Nanotech Panelist for AAAS
• UM Nanotech Center: Newly Open for Business and Already Gaining National Recognition
• Smela Named to Presidential Early Career Award
• Melngailis Named IEEE Fellow
• Kim Building is a Reality!
• Prof. Ellen Williams Elected to National Academy of Sciences
• Micro-Testudo Created by Advanced Lithography Techniques
• SmallTimes ranks State of Maryland 8th in Nanotech Rating
• O'Connor Joins Maryland NanoCenter as FabLab Director
• Diamondback profiles M-CINSE
• PhysOrg Cites Maryland NanoCenter National Recognition
• Shapiro Promotes Control and System Integration of Micro- and Nano-scale Systems
• Bruck Presents Nanotech Course at ASME
• Takeuchi, Williams, and Rubloff to establish Keck Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization
• Nano-bio Partnerships at Maryland
• O'Shea Named Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Washington Post Highlights Maryland NanoCenter