Peter was chosen to receive the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) award from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Congratulations!

Peter received a Rackham Graduate Student Research grant for $3,000 to go towards the purchase of a top-of-the-line isolation system for the AFM. Congratulations!

Peter will be working in the Ferroelectronics Lab over the summer as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering Program (SURE). SURE offers summer research internships to outstanding undergraduate students who have completed their sophomore or junior year. The progam funds the undergraduate student for 10-12 weeks of full-time research. Peter will be working to synthesize ordered antiferromagnetic Tb₂Ir₂O₇ thin films for use in magnetotransport studies.

Steve and Nguyen both received Rackham Graduate Student Research grants for $3,000 each. Steve’s grant will go towards buying a new magnetron sputtering assembly for the lab and Nguyen’s grant was for the purchase of a high voltage amplifier unit for electronic measurements. Congratulations to both of them.

Some of Peter’s artwork submitted to the annual calendar competition was chosen to hang in the hallway of the HH Dow building, home of the UM MSE department. If you are walking through, check it out!