Spring Semester 2024

• AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter DC Regional Meeting - May 9th, 2024
• Dean's Circle Spotlight: Investing in Ideas, and Access
• Agents of Positive Change: Highlighting Women Maryland Engineers
• Paid Internships Available for Summer 2024
• Alumna Blasts Into Space
• $15 Million Climate Catalytic Capital Fund Launched 
• NanoCenter AIM Lab New AC-TEM Coming Soon
• Former FabLab Director, Jim O'Connor, passed away
• Transforming Engineering: Highlighting Maryland Engineers
• Celebrating the Impact of Black Maryland Engineers and Leaders
• $15M Federal Grant Awarded to Support Maryland Electric Vehicle Charging Network

Fall Semester 2023

• UMD Start-Up Ionic Devices Wins Microbattery Design Prize
• CALCE Welcomes Dr. Lingxi Kong: New Member of the Battery Research Team
• We Build the Future Here: Stanley R. Zupnik Hall
• Introducing the Clark Scholars Program Network
• Liangbing Hu Is Key PI of New Energy Earthshot Research Center
• New, Innovative UMD Course Teaches In-Demand Skills
• Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month: Resources and Events
• Horiuchi is PI for NSF 'ExLENT' experiential learning project
• Maryland Engineering Ranks Among the Nation’s Top 20 Undergraduate Engineering Programs
• Upcoming NanoCenter Facility Rates Change
• UMD's 40th Annual Convocation Honors Engineering Staff, Faculty
• Dutt is PI on NSF-Funded Quantum Research Grant
• Maryland MSE Scholars Named to Faculty Positions
• Transformative Battery Structure Surpasses US’ Fast Charge Goals 

Spring Semester 2023

• Connect with Maryland Engineering at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference
• Powering a Greener Future
• Device That Harvests Water From Air Named Top UMD Invention of the Year
• Maryland Engineering Graduate Programs: Top 10 Among Public Universities, Five Years in a Row
• Electrified Plastic Recycling Toward A Sustainable Future
• Crank Up the AC, Not Global Warming
• Women’s History Month Spotlight
• Safe Lithium Batteries Get a Boost
• 2023 Energy Seed Grants Provide Launchpad for Local Startups
• Celebrating Women's History Month
• Bill Weigand, Former ChBE Faculty Member, Dies at 84
• MSAL’s work on serotonin characterization and detection results in two journal covers
• Coming of Age in 2023: The 12th Annual Alumni Cup Competition
• Maryland Engineers Awarded Grants to Address Humanity's Grand Challenges
• New Electrolyte Design Could be the Answer for Safer Rechargeable Batteries even in Extreme Cold
• Three UMD Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering
• Big Ten Network spotlights Maryland Engineering
• Maryland Engineers Graham, Nau, Zhao elected Fellows of AAAS
• Selected Publications from NanoCenter's AIM Lab and FabLab
• Energy Consortium promotes science and innovation
• Roll Over, Paper Towels: UMD Researchers Create Picker-Upper That's Even Quicker
• Ten Maryland MSE Faculty Members Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists

Fall Semester 2022

• Ask An Engineer: Space Travel
• InventWood and UMD Receive $20M ARPA-E SCALEUP Award
• Giving Students "Space" for Galactic Discovery, and a Launch into Research
• 'A Hub for Discussion, Integration of Ideas, Innovation and Discovery'
• UMD Scientists Achieve Ultrahigh-Temperature Melt Printing
• Cementing His Legacy
• "This Is Where It's At"
• Engineering at Maryland magazine highlights federal partnerships to tackle big questions
• Dean's Circle Spotlight: A Blueprint for Human-Oriented Innovation
• Timothy Koeth Wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
• Alchemity Receives Shell GameChanger Funding
• Paint Branch Distinguished Lecture - October 25, 2022
• Avik Dutt: Advancing Transformative Technologies
• Introducing the Early Career Distinguished Alumni Society
• $25 Million Commitment Will Fund New World-Class Engineering Facility at the University of Maryland
• Maryland Engineering ranks #11 among public colleges in the U.S.
• Convocation to Honor Faculty, Staff Accomplishments
• MPT State Circle Highlights UMD Innovative Energy Technology
• Maryland Engineers Get Cracking on Sustainability with Crab Shell-based Battery
• 'They Are Playing With a Huge Fire'
• It's Getting Hot in Here
• Introducing Maryland Engineering's New Chief Development Officer
• Materials, physics, and systems for multicaloric cooling
• Advisory Board Meeting Highlights New Clean Energy Technology
• Undergrads and research experiences: Win! Win! Win!

Spring Semester 2022

• 2022 Sony Research Award Program Invitation
• Attoh-Okine Named UMD CEE Chair
• Rethinking the Architecture of Solid-State Batteries: ION Closes $30M Investment Round
• Liangbing Hu Named Finalist for 2022 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
• Electrified Heating Towards Green Methane Conversion and Ammonia Synthesis
• In the News: Leatherbacks Combat Robotics Team on ABC7
• UMD Dedicates IDEA Factory
• Engineering at Maryland magazine celebrates the power of philanthropy, impact on students
• UMD Inventions of the Year Tackle Grand Challenges
• JC Zhao Receives Humboldt Research Award
• Maryland Engineering Graduate Programs: Top 10 Public, Four Years in a Row
• Safe and Sound
• Engineering Faculty Selected for New MPower Seed Grant Funding
• International research team sheds light on inner workings of unconventional superconductors
• MSE Prof. Liangbing Hu Granted $5.6M in DOE ARPA-E Funding
• Brain Freeze: Cryo-FIB-SEM Coming Soon to College Park
• Engineering a Multi-Element Atomic Arrangement
• Clark School's Online Engineering Programs Ascend to No. 12 National Rank
• Novel engineering method enables low-temp sodium metal battery

Fall Semester 2021

• Nine Maryland Engineers Recognized as Being "One in 1,000"
• Bamboo fibers offer strong, ‘green’ manufacturing alternative
• Joshua Levy wins AVS Outstanding Paper Award
• UMD top ranked U.S. university for solid-state battery research publications
• Maryland Energy Innovation Institute sunset date removed in special session
• Engineering at Maryland magazine introduces new leader, new look
• You Can Make It at Maryland
• UMD Scientists Convert Methane without Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Wood That Can Cut Like Steel, Be Molded Like Plastic or Build Batteries?
• UMD-Led Team Wins NSF Award for Rapid Materials Design
• Expanded Wood Fiber for High-Performance Solid-State Paper Batteries
• USMSM Debuts SMART Innovation Center
• Incentive Awards Program, Engineering Lab Building Named for Mote
• Improving Disaster Communication for Marginalized Communities
• Rosemary Parker Honored with President's Distinguished Service Award
• College Park-born Quantum Firm IonQ Goes Public
• Welcome, Samuel Graham, Jr., Dean of Maryland Engineering
• UMD research team creates ‘switchable’ adhesive for repairing cuts and tears in tissue
• Liangbing Hu’s HighT-Tech Wins 2021 Spinoff Prize
• Three Engineers Among 2021-2022 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
• Convocation to Shine Spotlight on Faculty, Staff Accomplishments
• Ion Storage Systems received US Advanced Battery Consortium award
• 9/11 20th Anniversary Commemoration
• Secretary of State: 'Domestic Renewal' Needed Through Infrastructure Investments

Spring Semester 2021

• Chunsheng Wang Wins 2021 ECS Battery Division Research Award 
• Pecht, Wachsman Named Distinguished University Professors
• Multi-institutional Research Team Documents Quantum Melting of Wigner Crystals
• Liangbing Hu Named Finalist for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
• Eric Wachsman Elected President of Electrochemical Society
• Georgia Tech Professor, Researcher Named Dean of Clark School
• UMD, UMBC, ARL Announce Cooperative Agreement to Accelerate AI, Autonomy in Complex Environments
• Liangbing Hu Named 2021/2022 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
• 'Fluorinated interphase' bolsters water-based zinc battery chemistry
• Engineering at Maryland magazine celebrates 40 Years of the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering
• Postdoc Candidate Sought at Naval Research Laboratory
• Engineering Undergrads Recognized for Excellence
• Eric Marksz Awarded Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Thesis Award
• Building Energy Innovation in Maryland
• A Paradigm Shift in Nanochannel Research
• Clark School Innovators Honored with Invention of the Year Award Nominations
• Maryland Joins NSF-funded Effort to Help Set Nation's Direction for Engineering
• Maryland Scientists Synthesize Metallic Glass Nanoparticles via High Temperature Thermal Shock
• Maryland Graduate Engineering Ranked #10 Public in the Nation
• Liangbing Hu Elected to the Class of 2021 MRS Fellows
• Plastic Alternative Made 100% of Wood
• Standing with our Asian-American Community
• Nanoscale Imaging Method Offers Insight into Alloyed Nanoparticle Synthesis
• Could Nanocellulose Save Us?
• CREB Kicks Off 2021 with Meeting to Discuss Future of Battery Research
• UMD Launches New Brain and Behavior Institute, Announces Founding Director
• 10 Maryland MSE Faculty Members Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists
• Scientists Design and Synthesize Denary Oxide Nanoparticles as Highly Stable Catalysts
• Hollow, Multi-Metallic Nanoparticles Offer Novel Strategy for Synthesis of Highly Efficient Catalysis
• Three Clark School Professors Receive Competitive DURIP Grants
• Mighty Morphing 3D Printing

Fall Semester 2020

• UMD Makes U.S. DOE Solar District Cup Finals
• NanoCenter Announce AIM Lab, FabLab Winter Break Schedule
• UMD-NIST Self-Directing AI System Discovers New Material
• Seven UMD Engineers Recognized as Highly Cited Researchers
• Lemonade from lemons: Despite COVID-19 sidelining of MEMS showcase, proceedings and papers quickly published
• Metallic Nanoarcs are Ready to Shine
• Two Maryland Energy Innovation Institute Start-Ups Named to Governor’s Future 20 List
• Printed Solid-State Batteries
• New government partner joins UMD’s Center for Research in Extreme Batteries
• ARL to Fund $30M in Equipment Innovations for Service Members
• University of Maryland leads team awarded $7.2M from Army Research Lab
• Symptoms all in your head—or in your gut? Maybe a little of both.
• Energy Start-Up Continues to Make Waves
• UMD Research Team Advances the Battery Revolution
• Investing in Environmentally Responsible Engineering
• Sci-Fi Social Distancing?
• A Light Bright and Tiny: NIST Scientists Build a Better Nanoscale LED
• The Impact of Scholarships
• Natural Patterns of Wood Shine Through in 'Aesthetic Wood'
• Joy Chao Receives 2020 MRS Silver Graduate Student Award

Spring Semester 2020

• UMD researcher receives new $1M Vehicle Technology Award
• Legacy through Impact: Dr. Darryll J. Pines
• Rapidly evolving ‘smart marble’ sensors hold promise for monitoring pharmaceutical industry bioreactors and beyond
• Sulfur Provides Promising 'Next-Gen' Battery Alternative
• Further Strides to Beat the Virus
• Pines: Stand in Solidarity, Unite Against Injustice
• Promoting Diversity and Addressing Unconscious Bias
• MSE Alum Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• UMD Researchers Design ‘Open’ Lithium-ion Battery
• UMD Research Lab Receives ARO Grant to Investigate Reconfigurable Nanoparticle Assemblies
• Two Engineers Among 2020-2021 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers
• 2020 Undergraduate Honors and Awards
• Cleaning Natural Methane for Better Access to Renewable Energy
• New, superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven materials discovery
• Advance made towards next-generation rechargable batteries
• Terrapin 'Works' Toward Relief Efforts
• COVID-19 Engineering Solutions: In the News
• Maryland Engineers Open Door to Big New Library of Tiny Nanoparticles
• Maryland Engineers Receive Coronavirus Research Seed Fund Awards
• High-performance electrolyte solves battery puzzle
• Micro-reactor Produces Quality Nanoparticles
• Former post-doc Pomerantseva earns tenure at Drexel
• Protection Collections Abound for Local Health Care Workers
• Public health planners: Free resources for emergency health clinics
• Clark School Engineers Create Solutions for a Crisis
• Researchers from Poland report results aided by UMD's AIM Lab
• Slam Dunk at Alumni Cup
• Computer-designed nanoparticles could speed us toward hydrogen economy
• Accelerating Materials Discovery for a Clean Energy Future
• Improve the Outcome: Vascular Liver Tissue
• Become a Contender: Electric Racecar
• MEI2 leads U.S. side of $18.4M U.S.-Israel Energy Center focused on Energy Storage
• Robert Briber Named Interim Dean of Clark School
• Potassium Metal Battery Emerges as a Rival to Lithium-Ion Technology
• Clark School Faculty Receive CAREER Awards
• Gearing Up for the Future
• Thin Wood Film Amplifies Speaker Technology
• Dean Pines Named University of Maryland's 34th President
• Universities, National Labs and Corporations Create New Alliance to Accelerate Maryland's Leadership in Quantum Science
• Ion Storage Systems Hires Energy Industry Leader
• 2019 Research Wrap-up: MSE at UMD Ranked 18th among U.S. Universities by Nature

Fall Semester 2019

• Emily Hitz Named by Nature as One of Five Early Career Researchers in Materials Science
• Brain and Behavior Initiative Hosts 3rd Annual Seed Grant Symposium
• New Report Recommends a Path for the Future of Maryland’s Clean Energy Economy
• Additive Manufacturing and Ni-Ti Metal Bolster Cooling Technology
• Refocusing In-situ Electron Microscopy
• Daring Vision. Lasting Impact.
• Clark School of Engineering Professor Joseph Silverman Remembered
• Taylor Woehl Receives ACS Grant
• M-CERSI Now Accepting Regulatory Science Competition Applications
• What’s Next for Next-Gen Batteries?
• ChBE Ph.D. Student Wins Battery500 Young Investigators Award
• Clark School Professor Elected 2019 APS Fellows
• UMD Graduate Student Kang-Yi Lin Receives 2019 ALD/ALE Award
• NSF Awards $1M Grant to UMD Researchers
• Ghodssi Receives Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
• University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center
• Mapping Nucleation Kinetics with Nanometer Resolution
• MEI² Receives Two New Innovative Vehicle Technology Awards
• UMD Hosts 4th Annual Machine Learning Bootcamp and Workshop
• UMD Alumna Receives PECASE Award, Highest Honor Given by U.S. Government to Early Career Scientists
• High Temperature Thermal Shocks Increase Stability of Single Atom Catalysts
• 'Wood' You Like Some Fresh Water?

Spring Semester 2019

• UMD Research Group Develops New Technique for Detecting Elusive Protein Aggregates in Biopharmaceuticals
• UMD/MEI2 Energy Innovation Featured at ARPA-E 2019
• YH Wang Awarded 2019 Kirwin Faculty Research & Scholarship Prize
• The Battery Revolution
• Perfect Quantum Portal Emerges at Exotic Interface
• Ring Resonators Corner Light
• Two Clark School Faculty Named Finalists of Prestigious Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists
• Cooling Wood: An Eco-Friendly Building Material
• 2019 Dean's Doctoral and Master's Student Research Awards
• Hu, Leite and Mo Promoted
• Korean Energy Company and UMD Partner to Create Next-Gen Batteries
• Annual Current EM Techniques Workshop at UMBC
• UMD Researchers Receive 2019 Outstanding Young Scientist and Outstanding Young Engineer Awards
• MSE Hosts University Materials Council Spring 2019 Meeting
• Reversible Chemistry Clears Path for Safer Batteries
• Raith CEO on EBL-SEM imaging
• Partnering for Quantum Leaps
• Sculpting Super-Fast Light Pulses
• Breakthroughs in neuromorphic computing demonstrate high computing efficiency, performance
• Have You Seen this Cube?
• Yonggang Yao Awarded Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award
• Engineering Sustainability Day - "Towards Zero Emissions and Beyond"
• MSE Professor Recognized by AVS and Dry Process Symposium
• Hu Research Group Wins Invention of the Year Award
• Solar evaporator offers a fresh route to fresh water
• Energy Start Up Places 3rd in Battery Competition
• Algorithms and Autonomous Discovery
• Machine Learning's Translational Medicine
• Measuring Change in the Atmosphere
• Engineering a Testudo
• The Buddy System: Human-Computer Teams
• UMD Faculty Awarded ED Grant to Increase Doctoral Degrees in Areas of National Need
• Wood-based Technology Creates Electricity from Heat
• Maryland Transportation Institute announces Seed Grant winners
• DOE EFRC Newsletter covers NEES
• Liangbing Hu Nominated for Invention of the Year Award
• Company Co-Founded by Sergio Baron Delivers Ultra-Thin, Custom Shape Lithium Batteries
• Enter Engineering Sustainability Poster Contest
• Miao Yu honored with USM Regents Faculty Award
• Wang Group Develops Highly Reversible 5.3 V Battery
• 2019 Hulka/Wells Energy Fellowships Awarded
• Liangbing Hu Honored for his ‘Sustainable’ Contributions
• NanoCenter Hot Papers Newsletter, Issue 1: ALD
• Scientists Develop First Fabric to Automatically Cool or Insulate Depending on Conditions
• Nanostructure of carbon and metal could solve potassium-battery puzzle
• The Promise of Perovskites: Using machine learning techniques, Leite Group investigates impact of environmental stressors on perovskites.
• UMD Engineers Discover Root Cause of Solid-State Battery Failure
• Fab Lab lithography instrument now available for high-res imaging
• AIM Lab Offers SEM, TEM and FIB Short Courses

Fall Semester 2018

• Fluorine "crust" makes powerful, safe battery
• Researchers make liquid crystals do the twist
• NEES in DOE EFRC Newsletter
• Biodegradable color pixels that disappear completely
• Woehl Group Unravels Novel 'Nanochemistry' with In situ Electron Microscopy
• New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology
• "Super Wood" wins multiple awards
• Palm, Murray research featured on cover of ACS Photonics
• University of Maryland Breaks Ground on E.A. Fernandez IDEA Factory
• Fabricating a better tomorrow
• 2019 Energy Innovation Seed Grant Announcement
• How Will You Impact Society?
• Nanoscale reactions studied with new device made in Fab Lab
• $1.5M FEMA Award to Fund First-of-its-Kind Study of Health Effects on Wildland Firefighters
• Tiny Device to Rapidly Detect Heart Attacks
• Fearless Ideas: A Twofold Promise
• Application window open: AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows
• Biofilm treatment device receives TEDCO MII funding; paper published in IEEE TBME
• MEI2 Awards $5K to Local Start-Up at 2018 Clean Energy Summit
• UMD to Lead Milestone NSF High School Engineering Pilot Course
• Mo Research Group's Solid-State Battery Review Published in Joule
• Feathers Not Included
• Pines Receives UMD President's Medal
• A Novel Graphene Quantum Dot Structure Takes the Cake
• Are you ready to compete in the e-Bike student challenge?
• Marina Leite to Give a Plenary Talk at International Conference in Belgium
• DOE Newsletter features NEES science and science communication
• A New Dimension for Batteries

Spring Semester 2018

• Gary Rubloff keynote speaker at IEEE nanotechnology conference
• ‘Smart Marbles’ hold promise for better outcomes from bioreactors
• New Minor in Global Engineering Leadership
• Maryland Energy Innovation Institute partners with Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology
• Advance could yield safer, longer-range electric car batteries
• ARPA-E Spotlights UMD Awardee
• Semiconductor quantum transistor opens the door for photon-based computing
• Leite Lab Combines Experiments and Calculations to Advance the Understanding of Optical Materials
• Under Pressure
• NEES PI Qi named MSU Engineering’s Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity
• Prof. Sang Bok Lee appointed director of Maryland NanoCenter
• Study validates face recognition experts, but shows humans perform best with an AI partner
• EFRC NEES-2 meeting poster contest winners
• MSE Ph. D. Student Wins ECS Research Award
• Building Together at the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference
• MSE PhD Candidate Yonggang Yao Takes 1st Place in 2018 Dean's Doctoral Research Competition
• ChBE PhD Candidate Fudong Han Wins 2018 Dean's Doctoral Research Award
• Breakthrough protonic fuel cell study published in Nature
• So you have a degree in science. Now what?
• Davis, Takeuchi Take 2018 UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
• Why a robot can't yet outjump a flea
• A higher-energy, safer and longer-lasting zinc battery
• Four Clark School Professors Receive Competitive DURIP Grants
• Outstanding Microscopist and Teacher Honored with Fellowship
• NANO.IL.2018 Nano Conference in Israel
• Chungsheng Wang Receives UMD's 17th ARPA-E Award
• NEES legislative outreach highlighted in EFRC newsletter
• Scientists Mix the Unmixable to Create 'Shocking' Nanoparticles
• 3D Li metal anode provides high energy and improved safety
• UMD ARPA-E Innovations transitioning to commercial reality
• Biofilm Made of Cellulose Nanofibers Offers Robust, Eco-friendly Materials for Emerging Applications
• Sturdy Insulator Made of Wood
• Clark School Researchers Recognized for Exceptional Inventions
• The Clark School Celebrates Women's History Month
• Sandwich Battery with ‘Melty’ Layer is Safe, Robust
• 2018 ARPA-E Summit to Showcase UMD Innovations
• 2018 Engineering Sustainability Day
• 4th Annual Clean Energy and Sustainability Extravaganza
• Professor Salamanca-Riba receives $2M in Advanced Manufacturing Award
• Scholarship Opportunity for Transfer Students
• Strength in Numbers, Especially Family Groups
• New Fuel Cell has Exceptional Power Density and Stability
• Turning Up the Heat
• Wood Provides a Spongy, Eco-Friendly Replacement for Synthetic Materials
• Super Wood Could Replace Steel
• Article on Maryland TMV research named 'Highlight of 2017' by the journal Nanotechnology
• UMD ChBE Researchers Continue Search for Li-Battery Stabilization
• Amitabh Varshney Named Dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at UMD
• Inaugural Energy Innovation Seed Grants awarded
• UMD Researchers Focus Energy on Current Collector Improvements
• UMD Researchers Seek to Improve 3D Microstructure Characterization at the Nanoscale
• Novel Battery Cathode Design Inspired by Your Typical Cotton ‘T’
• Clark School Researchers Recognized Among "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds"

Fall Semester 2017

• MSE Grad Student Wins 1st Place in Poster Competition at Optics & Photonics Conference
• Organic Processes Inspire Technological Innovation
• Leite Group Creates Nano-sized Super-absorber, Published in Advanced Optical Materials
• Reducing the traffic jam in batteries
• Leite Research Group’s Invited Review Published in ACS Energy
• Li Named to Forbes' "30 Under 30" List
• Mentors Needed for Women's Hackathon!
• Call for Input: University of Maryland Research at UN Climate Conference
• UMD Researchers Develop Stable, Robust Li-ion Battery Chemistry
• Photo-Activated Pseudo-Solid Battery from UCLA in New Journal
• Losert, Waks receive prestigious fellowship in APS
• NEES PI Talin Joins Elite Fellows at APS
• UMD Researchers Work to Mitigate Water Scarcity Crisis with Solar-Powered Devices Made of Wood
• 10/9 is NanoDay
• Empowering Voices in Engineering
• MSE Students Selected as Finalists for the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition
• MSE Undergrad wins ARL Student Competition
• UMD Team in Top Six at 2nd Hyperloop Competition
• UMD Researchers Offer Solution to Volatile Battery Chemistry in Electronics
• UMD Engineers Answer Questions about Record-Breaking Harvey, Flooding
• UMD ECS Student Chapter receives national award
• MSE Research Group’s Invited Perspective Published in ACS Energy Letters
• ChBE Researchers Develop ‘Inside-out’ Technique for Creating Polymer Capsules with Multiple Concentric Layers
• Staff Spotlight: Alan Santos
• Liangbing Hu Wins 2017 KINGFA Young Investigator Award
• Clark School Participates in Solar Eclipse
• NEES Attends 2017 DOE EFRC-Hub-MCS PI Meeting
• Jeremy Munday Receives 2017 Clark School Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
• UMD’s bio-compatible battery garners international coverage

Spring Semester 2017

• NEES Mentioned in Three Articles in EFRC Newsletter
• NEES Grad Student Pens EFRC Newsletter Article on Metastable Materials
• UMD engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery
• A Space Elevator: How Microscopic Materials Give Way to Big Ideas
• Eric Wachsman to Receive 2017 Wagner Memorial Award
• MSE Research Reveals Unique Ionic Diffusion Mechanism in Super-Ionic Conductors  
• 3D-Printed Evaporator is Sustainable Approach to Water Shortage
• UMD Research Offers Insight into Structure of Cellular Membrane
• Decade of TMV research leads to never-before-seen microsystems for energy storage, biosensors and self-sustaining systems
• Peter Kofinas Will Serve as Next Chair of ChBE
• New TMV supercapacitor work featured in Nanotechweb article
• Gray Wins Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Graduate Achievement
• Lab Students' 'Creativity is Key'
• BIOE Researchers Develop New Technologies to Drive Next-Generation Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis
• Gerald Wilkinson Named Interim Dean of UMD's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
• Ghodssi, Bentley receive NSF EAGER grant to develop ingestible capsules for medical diagnosis
• Wachsman Recipient of 2017 Carl Wagner Memorial Award
• NEES student selected for U.S. DOE Graduate Student Research Award
• UMD Engineering Gives Solar Decathlon Team a Competitive Edge
• Liangbing Hu Wins NANOLetters Young Investigator Award
• Alexander Pearse wins Dean's Doctoral Research Award
• 2017 Honors & Awards Ceremony
• MSE Professor Aristos Christou Elevated to IEEE 'Life Fellow'
• MSE Graduate Student Receives All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship
• CHBE Chair Sheryl Ehrman Departs for San Jose
• ChBE PhD Candidate Wins MRS Gold Award
• Clark School Researchers Represented on Four 2017 MURI Awards
• 7th Annual Engineering Sustainability Day focuses on Energy Storage
• Women Engineers Welcome Admitted Students
• MSE Undergraduate Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Wood filter removes toxic dye from water
• ChBE Professor Receives 2017-2018 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award
• Welcome Dr Rao!
• Sunbeams at the Nano-scale: the Next Generation of Solar Cells
• UMERC’s Liangbing Hu pitches transparent wood technology at 2017 ARPA-E Innovation Summit
• A nerve modeled on a battery
• A peek under a hybrid’s hood reveals wood?
• Stacked nanocrystals offer a new twist on handedness
• Please Join Us for a Career and Information Fair!
• UMD hosts first annual Winter School on Fundamentals of Quantum Materials
• Cheaper, Faster and Longer Lasting: What Magnesium Iodine Chemistry Can Offer
• Covetics: Novel Carbon Nanostructure Embedded Class of Metals
• Mohamad Al-Sheikhly Receives IIA Laureate Award
• Leite Nanophotonics Research Featured on Advanced Optical Materials Cover
• Gov Hogan Announces UMD’s Role in $65M Environmental Agenda

Fall Semester 2016

• UMD Researchers Find Ultra-thin Solution to Primary Obstacle in Solid-State Battery Development
• Thin Films Prevent Corrosion in Sodium Metal Anode
• YuHuang Wang, NEES PI, talks nanotube protection in video abstract
• MSE Research Team Wins Seed Grant Funding for Novel Sensor Technology
• Former ISR postdocs win advanced materials awards
• NanoCenter thanks departing co-founder
• UMERC Announces RFP for the 2017 Wells Graduate Fellowship
• Energy Research Center battery highlighted on CBS This Morning
• NEES PI Gives Memorial Lecture to Ceramics Society
• UMD's Technica Expected to Be Largest All-Women Hackathon in U.S.
• Solar cells improved with nanospheres is subject of ACS journal cover
• NSF Awards $3.45M National Innovation Ecosystem Grant to University of Maryland
• A NEES Associate Director Named VP of Materials Research Society
• Students Showcase Outstanding Basic, Applied and Innovative Energy Research
• Ott, Yorke, and Grebogi recognized by Thompson Reuters as 2016 Citation Laureates in Physics
• MSE Nanophysics Researcher Ichiro Takeuchi and team Step Closer to Quantum Computing Advances
• ECE Students Advised by Rama Chellappa win Best Poster Award and nVIDIA Best Paper Award at IEEE BTAS 2016
• Chellappa to Receive Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Science
• UMD Physicists Discover “Smoke Rings” Made of Laser Light
• Four Clark School Professors Named Distinguished University Professor
• Prof. Leite Awarded APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship
• Transparent Wood: Clark School Research in the News
• Superconductivity Can be Induced in a Kondo Topological Insulator, New PRX Paper Shows
• Professor Romel Gomez Selected as 2016-2017 Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellow
• Jay, Jewell Named 2016 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
• DOE Awards $1.25M to UMERC Researchers to Develop Safer, Better Batteries
• Wood Windows are Cooler than Glass
• White Named University of Maryland 2016 Faculty Advisor of the Year
• Gary Rubloff named Distinguished University Professor

Spring Semester 2016

• Fourth Consecutive Win for UMD Electrochemical Society Student Chapter
• Cover of Nanotechnology Features Work From the Munday Lab
• NanoDay2016 Features Inspiring Speakers, Poster Awards
• Safer, Better Li-Ion Batteries
• Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology
• Clark School’s Amazing Transparent Wood Featured in New York Times
• A View Through Wood Shows Futuristic Applications
• Rubloff, Ghodssi to speak at TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo
• NEES project shows hybrid battery/capacitor with off-the-charts cycling capacity
• Scientists blend coinage metals to obtain alloys better than gold
• Hu and Munday Win Young Investigator Award
• CREB Kicks Off its Research and Innovation Seed Grant Program
• NanoCenter's Fab Lab gets new instrument
• You’ll Never Be-Leaf What Makes up This Battery
• Assembly of Micro/Nanomaterials into Complex, Three-Dimensional Architectures by Compressive Buckling

Fall Semester 2015

• Bergbreiter named director of Maryland Robotics Center
• New Rate Information
• Diagnosing Better Efficiencies for Solar Cells
• Rubloff Discusses UMD Energy Storage Center and Energy Science Hot Topics
• UMD Researchers Use a Simple Stretch to Create Powerful Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene
• Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi Joins a National Center for Spintronics Research
• UMD & Army Researchers Discover Salty Solution to Better, Safer Batteries
• UMERC Announces RFPs for the 2016 Graduate Student Energy Fellowships
• Hu wins 2015 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
• BioE Researchers Develop Nano-guided Cell Networks as Conveyors of Molecular Communication
• Li Awarded Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal
• UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
• Gary Rubloff to receive Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
• Grad students Winkler, Subramanian rank highly in U21 3MT video contest
• Leonard to be Honored for Cooperative Control Innovations
• Two NEES students write for DOE Newsletter; one story profiles NEES research
• Reimagining Fuel Cells Lands UMERC Director's Technology in NATURE
• Experts available for comment on upcoming Nobels
• UMD Students Win Third Consecutive Electrochemical Society Student Chapter Award
• UMD Researchers Creating First Onboard Fast-Charging System for Electric Vehicles
• Undergraduate Engineering Programs Earn Top Rank in U.S. News & World Report
• Mesoscale Science Research Highlighted on Materials Journal Cover
• Microsystems Graduate Student Seminar Series
• NSF Funds Novel Research to Create Scalable Wireless Networking, Averting Usage Crisis
• UMD Researchers’ New Nanoscale Solar Cells Could Revolutionize Solar Industry
• Jeremy Munday selected for NASA Smallsat Technology Partnership Award
• Gates Foundations awards UMD project to address world sanitation problems

Spring Semester 2015

• New Battery Demonstrates “Sweet Spot” of Electrolyte Thickness and Composition
• Transparent, Interactive Nanopaper Uses Touch to Generate Electricity
• Ghodssi, Beyaz, Waits issued US patent for microgenerator
• Small Can Be Strong and Tough
• Call for Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges
• Physics Culture Prize Goes to Science Communicator
• Cumings Named Interim Director of Maryland NanoCenter
• Shampoo ingredient keeps nanotubes cleaner, more manageable
• Reza Ghodssi named AVS Fellow
• Thin coatings controlled at atomic scale protect high performance lithium anodes
• Office of Naval Research Supports Design Development of Materials at UMD
• New Software Will Enhance Materials Science and Engineering’s Undergraduate Program
• Creating Transparent Electronic Networks with Graphene-Based Ink
• The Second Mid-Atlantic DNA Nanotechnology Symposium
• New Shape Memory Alloy Withstands 10 Million Deformations
• Two FIBs Now Available in NanoCenter's AIM Lab
• High Energy at Extreme Battery Center’s First Meeting
• Members of NEES Gather for 2015 Spring Accomplishment Meeting
• Swelling Magnets to Energize the World
• Seminar on UMD's New FIB Instruments May 27
• BGE's Calvin Butler to Deliver Spring Commencement Remarks
• Food Safety, Energy Storage & Video Authentication Inventions Honored at Awards Ceremony
• For Batteries, One Material Does It All
• Depireux, Masri win $25K UMB UMVentures Award
• Welcome to Graphene Beach!
• White to Recieve First-Ever Bard Award
• Nilsson Wins Wylie Fellowship
• Scientific Reports Invites Yang to Serve as Editorial Board Member
• Center for Research in Extreme Batteries officially opens
• Sangwook Chu wins UMD GRID best poster award
• Invention of the Year Finalist: A Revolutionary, High Density, Nanopore Battery
• Ph.D. candidate Thomas Winkler wins best poster award at MAMNA Symposium
• UMD, MIT team for new 'superhydrophobic surfaces' patent
• Help Send UMD Students to the American Chemical Society Nat'l Meeting!
• Rubloff One of 9 Finalists for UMD Invention of the Year
• "Guests" of Honor
• The Proof Is in the Pores
• Atomic Layer Deposition: Precise Control Smaller than the Eye Can See
• UMD Partners with Army to Launch Extreme Battery Research Center
• NIST Highlights Leite’s “Battery Perimortems"
• Vote Now! Materials Video Enters Thinkable Competition
• Pines Recognized with Maryland Speaker's Medallion
• Simple Stretchable Conducting Material is Robust and Inexpensive
• 'I am very humbled': Hafezi Awarded Prestigious Sloan Fellowship
• Understanding Battery Failure in Realtime, at the Nanoscale
• UMERC Researchers Came Out in Force at the ARPA-E Summit
• UMD Hosts 3D Maryland Expert Group Meeting
• Sarah Bergbreiter gives TED Talk on microrobotics
• UMD Online Engineering Programs Continue to Climb in Standings

Fall Semester 2014

• News Update on 2015 Funding for NSF
• Wood Fibers in Technology: Technical Report from MRS meeting
• News Update on FY 2015 Funding for NIST
• News Update on FY 2015 Appropriations for DOE Office of Science
• Underwriters Laboratories President to Speak at Winter Commencement
• UMD Ranked Among World’s Best in Science Research Productivity
• Physics Prof Confirmed as Head of ARPA-E
• Ph.D. Student Guannan Liu Develops Novel Micro-Heater
• Faster Charging Technique Boosts Battery's Capacity
• UMD Clark School Highlights Disaster Resilience at Mpact Week
• Reza Ghodssi elected Fellow of IEEE
• University of Maryland Breaks Ground for A. James Clark Hall
• UMD Clark School Announces Inaugural Awards Winners
• Hu, Leite Named Outstanding Engineer and Scientist of the Year (VIDEO)
• UMD President Loh hosts robotics demonstrations at University House
• A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery
• Museum Conservation Research Wins Top Prizes in International 3-Minute Thesis Competition
• New Equipment and Science Capabilities at Army Research Lab
• Searching for Replacements for Rare Earth Elements in Permanent Magnets
• Tropical Tree Fibers Can Hold Battery Power, Say UMD Engineers
• Vote Now! Materials Grad Student is Finalist in 3 Minute Thesis Competition (VIDEO)
• Phosphorene: 2-D material ripples, giving optical properties
• UMD engineers create tiny, robust rubber micro-component.
• Li and Hu Awarded NSF Grant to Study Challenges in Creating Materials that are Both Stronger and Tougher
• Nanoparticles Add Zest to Search for Drug Delivery Methods
• Atomic Layer Depostion and Graphene Inspire Creative Catalyst Design
• Students' Improved Kevlar Soft Body Armor Wins National Design Competition
• New UMD Synthesis Method May Shape Future of Nanostructures, Clean Energy
• A Small Gift to Dr. Loh Makes a Big Hit
• Beyond “Six Nines”: Ultra-enriched Silicon for Quantum Computing
• DOE Invests in UMERC Battery Research
• Students Use UMD Supercomputer to Design, Test Materials
• UMERC's Advanced Energy Storage Technology Selected by NASA
• Lithium-ion battery research profiled in DOE newsletter

Spring Semester 2014

• UMD Researchers Bridge Gap between Microelectronics, Biological Systems
• UMD Hosts Technical Meeting on Nanomagnetic Materials
• Workshop on Defects in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Sept. 23
• Discover, Create, Deploy: Professors Contribute to Materials Genome Initiative
• Adding Lithium Boosts Transparency and Conductivity of Graphite
• International research partnership leads to major publication on controlling living cells with artificial cells
• $3.2M ARPA-E Award Supports Development of Combined Cooling/Heating/Power System
• UMD Professors Join Fuel Cell Projects Awarded Combined $11.4M
• Department of Energy renews NEES EFRC for four years
• UMD Nets a DOE Award for Innovative Energy Research Projects
• Room To Move: Spacing Graphite Layers Makes a Better Battery Anode
• Marquardt Wins Dean’s Doctoral Research Award for “Protecting Art with Nanotechnology”
• UMD Alumni Hatch Sub-$300 Consumer 3D Printer, Raise $3.3 Million on Kickstarter
• Call for Papers: NanoDay 2014
• Alumnus and Whiting-Turner CEO Regan to Speak at Spring Commencement
• Smithsonian Secretary Clough To Deliver Special Lecture at UMD
• NIH Head Biophysicist Shows Latest Nanoscale Biological Findings
• Dean Pines, Abts Featured in ASEE PRISM Magazine for Leadership in Exploring New AP Course in Engineering
• Whiting-Turner Lecture Series to Feature Chasen and Chowdhury
• Nanopaper Featured in Nature Photonics News & Views
• Save the Date: NanoDay, June 11 -- Poster Session, Plenaries, EM Workshops and More
• The Science, Technology and Society Program Build More than Just Robots
• UMD Project Management Symposium to Feature Army Corps Director
• Tiny Origami Boxes Hold Big Promise for Hydrogen Energy Storage
• Using Materials Science and Engineering to Save Priceless Artifacts
• Hu Honored by American Society for Engineering Education
• Registration Open for UMD Project Management Symposium
• Bentley Receives ACS BIOT’s Marvin J. Johnson Award
• Transparent Nanopaper Could Make Paper Electronics a “Thriving Technology”
• UMD Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program Wins National Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education
• DOE Office of Science Well-Funded in FY 2014 Appropriations
• NEES' Siwy named 2013 APS Fellow
• Clark School's Online Graduate Programs Highly Ranked in 2014 by U.S. News and World Report
• White Receives E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty

Fall Semester 2013

• Two Clark School Faculty Members Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
• Added Molecules Allow Metal-Organic Frameworks to Conduct Electricity
• Student’s Presentation of Conductive Nanopaper Featured in MRS Meeting Scene
• UMD to Host First-Ever Scholarship Day of Giving Dec. 11
• Self-Correcting, “Perfect Fault” Crystals May End Dropped Calls
• Williams Nominated to Lead ARPA-E
• Ghodssi Invited to Speak at IEEE Sensors 2013
• Nanowerk Spotlights Salamanca-Riba's Work with Rare New Material
• Rubloff, Ghodssi featured in JVST-A special issue
• Inaugural Mpact Week Showcases UMD Innovations, Robotics, Bioengineering
• Alumnus Krill to Be Honored for Revolutionary Naval Fleet Network Technology
• NSF-Backed DC I-Corps Kicks Off First Cohort with 20 Federal Laboratory, University and Regional Inventors, Entrepreneur Teams
• Call for Abstracts for NanoSciTech 2014 in Panjab, India
• University of Maryland Ranked Top Public School for Tech Entrepreneurship in 2013 StartEngine College Index
• Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research Proposal Writing Workshop Now Accepting Applications
• Fischell Department of Bioengineering to Host 7th Fischell Festival
• Desai's Neurosurgical Robot Designed for Brain Surgery Featured on NPR
• Mpact Week to Showcase UMD Robotics, Bioengineering, Innovation, Oct. 23-26
• Clark School Engineers Recently Awarded Grants
• Alumnus Promotes Do-It-Yourself Solutions for Labs in Developing Nations
• EWB Hosts University of Maryland ExPO: Engineering Skills Fair
• Competition Seeks Outstanding Microscopy Images
• UMD Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens
• Clark School Highlights Limitless Opportunities in New Video
• Tavis Smiley and UMD Make Last Call for Submissions in the $75,000 Social Innovation Challenge
• Clark School Highly Ranked in U.S. News and World Report's "2014 Best Colleges Rankings"
• Clark School Welcomes New Faculty
• The Green Fellowship for Collaborative Research on the Environment
• Wang Wins 2013 Junior Faculty Research Award
• Former Mtech Maryland Industrial Partnerships Funding Recipient Amplimmune Acquired by MedImmune for $500 Million
• NSF Grants for Graphene Research Awarded to Hu, Rubloff
• DC I-Corps Now Accepting Applications for Fall Cohort
• UMD Researchers Awarded Two ARPA-E Grants for Electric Vehicle Energy Storage Systems
• University of Maryland Hosts National Society of Black Engineers Conference
• Submit Abstract Now for Semiconductor Device Symposium in December in Bethesda, MD
• Meet the Potential Future of Electricity Generation
• Agilent Gift Funds Exploration of Enhanced Sensor Technology

Spring Semester 2013

• University of Maryland Creates Master's in Robotics Targeted at High-Tech Professionals
• "Battery Made of Wood" Featured on National Public Radio (Audio)
• Camp Prepares Teens for Cybersecurity Careers
• Shapiro Promoted to Full Professor
• Rabin Promoted
• A Battery Made of Wood?
• Micro-turbine research on cover of Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
• Apply Now for Water/Sanitation Engineering Scholarship
• New grad students: how to choose a faculty advisor
• UMD's Mote Elected NAE President
• Micro-turbo-generator research featured in Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems
• Bentley Discusses Alternatives to Animal Testing in PRiSM
• 36 Clark School Students Accepted into NIST Summer Research Program
• NanoCenter Members Organize Chemistry Meeting
• Professors Goldsman & Peckerar Win Award from University System of Maryland
• Young Wook Kim wins KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship
• Ekaterina Pomerantseva to join Drexel University faculty
• Recently Awarded Grants to Clark School Faculty
• Clark School Professor's Research Featured by Department of Energy
• Wonder "Worm"
• Friday Fun: IBM Releases Nano-scale Movie
• 2013 Dean's Doctoral and Master?s Student Research Award Winners
• NanoCenter Member takes ?Invention of the Year? Runner-Up Prize
• 2013 Dinah Berman Memorial Award Given to NanoCenter Member
• Collegiate Inventors Competition Call for Entries
• Nanoscience and Art Intersect in Cameramaker?s ?Small World? Competition
• FY 2014 National Institute of Standards and Technology Budget Request
• Atoms-Thick Coating Ready for First Test on Silver Artifact
• FY 2014 DOE Office of Science Budget Request
• 16th International Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy - ABSTRACTS DUE APRIL 22
• Maryland Exchange with Italian University Boosts Research on Artificial Cells
• NASA Asks Universities for Early Stage Innovation Tech Proposals
• Chem-E Car Team Heads to National Competition Once Again!
• Wuttig Honored at National Meeting of the Materials Research Society
• Diagnostic anSERS Takes 3rd and UMD Prize at Cupid's Cup Finals
• NanoOptics Lab hosts first seminar about new research opportunities
• ECE Names 2012-2013 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows
• UMD Scientists and Engineers Present Papers at American Chemical Society Meeting
• The Smallest Materials of All: Seeing, Making and Testing Materials at the Nanoscale
• NANOCOLLOQUIUM: Ellen Williams: A scientist's-eye view of research for sustainable energy
• MSE Announces Graduate Research Awards
• Quantum Dot Commands Light
• Earth Day 2013 Event to Address the Energy and Water Nexus
• Clark School Hosts 2013 STEM Expo on April 6
• Whiting-Turner Lecture Series Features Entrepreneurs Ostrow on April 11, Citrin on April 25
• Maryland Innovation Initiative Grant Awarded to Clark School Researchers
• Clark School Highly Ranked in 2014 U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools
• UMD Course To Serve as National Model for 'Energy 101' Curriculum
• Khaligh receives NSF & UMD Sustainability grant for electric vehicles laboratory
• Nominee for Energy Secretary a Boon for Research at the Nanoscale?
• NanoOptics Lab Opens, Offers Seminar and Free Evaluation
• Nano ?Beads on a String? Could Advance Battery Technology
• Charged Nano-Membranes Could Make Resistance Futile, Florida Professor Hopes
• UMD, GWU, and VT Awarded $3.75M by NSF to Launch Regional I-Corps Node for National Innovation Network
• NanoCenter Members Present Papers at Upcoming APS Meeting in Baltimore
• Alison Flatau wins ASME prize
• Mayergoyz Publishes Book on Plasmon Resonances
• NanoCenter Members Presented Papers at OPTO 2013
• UMD Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Nanoprecision Imaging
• Flexible Nanopaper Featured in Chemical & Engineering News
• Air Force Supports Study on Nanopaper for Electronics, Aircraft
• NanoColloquium 17: Louis Brus on "Carbon Nanoscience and Electronic Structure"
• Eric Wachsman Chosen as Solar 2013 Conference Chair
• Be Part of Health Research Project
• Shapiro, Depireux team for series of grants to combat hearing loss
• Seven NanoCenter Members Named 2013 Future Faculty Fellows
• NanoCenter members create tiny inchworm motor with flexible arms
• NispLab Winter Short Courses for SEM/TEM/FIB

Fall Semester 2012

• Great Expectations Campaign Reaches $1B Goal
• Spacecraft Fly Light, Thanks to NanoCenter Member
• Rubloff Co-Authors Major DoE Report on Emerging Energy Technologies
• Karki and Cornett to Participate in Energy Workshop
• ACS Video features NanoCenter members
• ALD work of Adomaitis, Dwivedi featured in NASA Goddard newsletter
• Hierarchical three-dimensional electrode paper featured in ACS Nano

Spring Semester 2012

• Zachariah, Research Team Wins MURI Award
• Dr. Michael Zachariah Receives DURIP Instrumentation Award
• Edo Waks promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
• Dr. Santiago Solares Wins Department of Energy's Early Career Award
• 2012 Energy Research Fellows Announced
• Preventing Costly, Life-Threatening Catheter Infections
• Catching Up With Ellen Williams

Fall Semester 2011

• Bacteria Programmed to Re-Create UMD Logo
• Banerjee Joins Washington University in St Louis Faculty
• Ray Adomaitis elected Fellow of AIChE
• Cumings Wins Clark School's Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award
• Clark School researchers figure prominently in atomic layer deposition story

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
• "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
• YuHuang Wang Wins NSF CAREER Award
• 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

• Friday Fun: Harvard's Nano-Garden
• 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