Category Archives: Notables
Awards, service, recognition, widely-circulated news
SI Volume 5 Issue 3
We are glad to share with you the content of the 3rd issue of 2017 of Surface Innovations with eight papers on surface phenomena and nanosized systems, which were selected and assembled by Prof. Ludmila Boinovich from the Russian Academy … Continue reading
Rough Particle – Bubble Interactions
A new paper entitled A Simplified Analysis of the Effect of Nano-asperities on Particle-Bubble Interactions has been published in the Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing journal. This paper was invited by the editors and will be included in a special … Continue reading
Top 1% in Materials Science Again
The review papers entitled Hydrophilic and Superhydrophilic Surfaces and Materials, published in Soft Matter in 2011, was marked again this year as Highly Cited Paper by Thomson Reuters in its Web of Science. This highly cited paper received enough citations … Continue reading
Biodegradable Medical Materials
The SURFI team is involved with organization and preparation of the International Symposium “Biodegradable Materials for Medical Applications” at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) 2018 Annual Meeting. This international symposium is organized by the TMS Biomaterials Committee. The … Continue reading
4Open Journal
Prof. Drelich has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of a new scientific journal named 4Open. It is an open access wide-spectrum inter- and multi- disciplinary journal owned by EDP Sciences and addresses research in all four disciplines … Continue reading
2017 Spring Graduation
Congratulations to Shan and Avishan! Our charming ladies just graduated this spring. Shan completed her PhD program on Zn-Li bioalloys and Avishan her MS program on coating Zn with biodegradable polymer. They will be leaving us at the end of … Continue reading
Award and Fellowship
Congratulations to Jeff! He was selected as the recipient of the Richard Shorraw Award. The Richard Sharrow Award is given to a student who has demonstrated a significant academic improvement through his career at MTU-MSE Department, and has demonstrated good … Continue reading
Congressional Visit
Two of the SURFI Team members, Jeff Brookins and Philip Staublin traveled to Washington D.C. with a group from Michigan Tech to attend Congressional Visit Day, which is organized by the national chapter of the Material Advantage program. They worked … Continue reading
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Roger!!! We are very pleased to learn that Roger has been selected to receive a 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship program is extremely competitive and we are very proud of Roger’s accomplishment. He … Continue reading
Former Student Awarded
Congratulations to our former graduate student, Kevin Baker (MS’2005), currently with Beaumont Hospital, who is the recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the Board of Directors of Michigan Tech!
