Department News 2004

September 2004

• The Fall 2004 MSE Newsletter is available

August 2004

• The department was ranked as the ninth best undergraduate education program in the USA by US News and World Report.

July 2004

• Professor Paul Salvador and Professor Sridhar Seetharaman were promoted to Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2004.
• Professor Prashant Kumta was interviewed on local television. The subject was the future of fuel cells.
• Professor Cramb gave a plenary lecture at the "Metals Seperation Technologies III" conference in Colorado.

May 2004

• Professor Sridhar Seetharaman wins the Philbrook Award of the department. The Philbrook award recognizes excellence in education and research.
• Professor Garrison will be awarded a twenty year service award at graduation
• Mitra Taheri, a graduate student in Professor Rollett's group wins a Silver Award at the recent MRS meeting
• Professor Cramb became the chair of the "University Materials Council" and also became President Elect of the AIME.
  

April 2004

• Neil McDonald, a graduate student in Professor Sridhar Seetharaman's group, wins the Willy Korf Award for research excellence by a Young Researcher for his work on peritectic reactions in steels.
• The Microscopy Society of America awarded Jessamine Winer an Undergraduate Research Scholarship in the amount of $3,000 for her project on magnetic quasicrystals.
• Professor Richard J. Fruehan, U.S. Steel University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering will be awarded the AISI Medal for 2003 on May 4 in San Francisco. The award is given to recognise a technical paper having special merit and importance in connection with the activities and interests of the iron and steel industry. This is the major technical award of the AISI.
  

March 2004

• Professor Richard J. Fruehan, U.S. Steel University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering will be awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal for 2004 from The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining. The award which is given for outstanding services to the steel industry, including contributions to the development of the steel industry and its importance to the economy nationally and internationally, will be given in London on June 15, 2004.
• Professor Elias Towe was named as the first recipient of the A & E Grobstein Memorial Professorship in the Departent of Materials Science and Engineering. This chair was established through the estate of Ethel and Albert Grobstein.
  A special dinner was held at the TMS meeting in Charlotte to celebrate Prof. Aaronson's Hume Rothery award.
  Professors Cramb and Paxton joined the CMU-Japan alumni event in Tokyo.
  

January 2004

• Professor Robert Davis joins the faculty of MSE as the John R. Bertucci Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Davis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and well known for his work in semiconductors.
  
• Profs. Prashant Kumta and Charles Sfeir gain first NIH grant in MSE history. This collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and CMU marks another milestone in the successful Biomaterials effort in MSE that is lead by Prof. Kumta.