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Recent Funding NewsApril 8, 2008A recipient of the 2008 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) included Ryan Lemmens (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics), “A Comparative Study of the Power Efficiencies of Bubble Actuation Methods” with Dennis Meng (Assistant Professor, MEEM). The fellowships, funded by the vice president for research, provide up to $3,000 to support the recipient's summer research work with a faculty mentor. December 13, 2007Professor John Jaszczak has received $200,000 from NSF for a two-year project, "NUE: Michigan Tech Nanotechnology Enterprise." August 12, 2007Miguel Levy has been awarded $330,000 over three years from NSF for “Nonlinear Magnetophotonic Crystals.” This work is part of the Materials World Network program of the National Science Foundation.
August 8, 2007Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap received $135,606 for the second year of a potential four-year project totaling $563,266 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Hetero-Junctions of Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Characterization.” May 8, 2007Yoke Khin Yap received $40,000 of a projected $124,806, three-year funding from the Argonne National Laboratory for “Argonne National Laboratory Guest Graduate Student Appointment.” April 12, 2007The Michigan Tech Biotechnology Research Center has awarded 2007 BRC Travel Grants to two Physics graduate students. Parimal Kar will receive $250 toward his presentation at the From Computational Biophysics to System Biology Conference held in Jülich, Germany, May 2-4. Yanjie Wei will receive $500 toward his presentation at the same conference. Kar and Wei are both part of the Computational Nano - and Biophysics research group. February 28, 2007A recipient of the 2007 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) included Ben Coupland (advisor Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap), for “Exploration of Carbon Nitride.” February 23, 2007Associate Professor Peter Moran (Physics and MSE) received $76,000 from the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval Research for “Developing Highly Magnetoelectric Fe(1-x)Gax/PMN-PT Heterostructures for Integration onto SiC”. February 7, 2007Assistant Professor Ranjit Pati has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project, “Theory and modeling of a mono-molecular field effect organic transistor (MOLFET)”. The amount is $74,700 for 2/15/07 to 1/31/08, and the total funding for five years is $400,000. January 16, 2007Associate Professor Yoke Khin Yap obtained a new grant ($100,000) from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the proposal entitled “Carbon Nanotube Arrays for Bacteria”. This project is in collaboration with Drs. Haiying Liu (PI), Pushpalatha Murthy and Martin Thompson in the Department of Chemistry. In addition, Dr. Yap was also awarded the Michigan Tech Faculty Scholarship Grant ($2,000) for his project “The First Book on Boron Nitride Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures”. Finally, Dr. Yap has received a continuing grant ($95,615) for his National Science Foundation CAREER award. January 12, 2007Jacob Fugal has received $24,000 from NASA for the first year of a potential three-year project totalling $72,000, “Improving Validation of MODIS Cloud Ice Crystal Data Products Using the HOLODEC Instrument.” July 26, 2006Yoke Khin Yap received $142,859 for the first year of a potential four-year project totaling $563,266 from the U.S. Department of Energy for “Hetero-Junctions of Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Characterization.” June 1, 2006Physics graduate student Jacob Fugal has received the NASA Earth System Science (ESS) Graduate Student Fellowship for 2006-2007. Only 55 out of 181 new applicants were identified to receive the fellowship this year. The purpose of the Fellowship program is for NASA Earth Science to train a pool of highly qualified scientists in support of NASA's mission to use the vantage point of space to understand and protect our home planet. The amount of award is $24,000 per annum, including $18,000 student stipend and an allowance of up to $6,000 consisting of $3,000 for student expenses and $3,000 for university expenses. Fugal is part of Raymond Shaw's Cloud Physics Lab research group. Improving Validation of MODIS Cloud Ice Crystal Data Products Using the HOLODEC Instrument April 18, 2006Recipients of the 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) include Dan Freeman (advisor Associate Professor Miguel Levy) who won $840 for “The Fabrication of Magneto-Optic Films by RF Magnetron-Sputtering” and Matthew Hansen (advisor Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap), who won $2,800 for “Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes through PECVD.” April 14, 2006Professors David F. Nitz and Brian Fick have received $247,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy for their project, “RFI Study High Energy Particle Astrophysics.” April 10, 2006Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap has received an addition of $60,000 from the Research Foundation of CUNY (Sponsor: U. S. Department of Army) for his project, “Molecular Nanomaterials for Device Applications.” In addition, Yap received another $92,499 from the National Science Foundation for his project, “CAREER: Synthesis, Characterization, and Discovery of Frontier Carbon Nanotubes.” April 6, 2006Assistant Professor Ranjit Pati has received $55,093 from the National Science Foundation for the project “Exploring monomolecular architecture for an organic transistor.” The objective of this proposed work is to explore an innovative mono molecular architecture for a three terminal organic transistor in which the gate electrode will be separated from the channel by an organic throttle unlike the insulating oxide layer generally used in a conventional transistor design. This funding will support one graduate student for one year and an undergraduate student in the summer. March 10, 2006Michigan Space Grant Consortium Award: $5000 to physics grad student Patrick Younk, “Compositional Analysis of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays.” Patrick's advisor is Dr. David Nitz. Abstract: Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles of interstellar origin. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are the highest energy cosmic rays, and they are not well understood. They can have energies as great as a major league fastball, but yet are the size of an atomic nucleus. We will carefully study the composition of UHECRs by analyzing the extensive air showers they create in earth’s atmosphere. This knowledge will help scientists learn more about the environments where UHECRs are accelerated, the extra galactic environment between the UHECR source and earth, and particle physics in energy regimes well past those available in modern accelerators. We will be using data from the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory in Argentina. The Auger Instrument is the largest hybrid cosmic ray detector ever built. November 11, 2005Michigan Space Grant Consortium Awards: $2500 to physics undergraduate Carly Robinson, “A Perspective on the Influence that Biomass Burning May have on Cirrus Clouds: Freezing of Solution Catalyzed by High Molecular Weight Organic Compounds,” and $5000 to physics grad student Jacob Fugal, “Proposal to Build and Fly HOLODEC II.” October 13, 2005Associate Professor Raymond Shaw has received $179,118 for the first year of a potential three-year, $460,111, project from the National Science Foundation for “Turbulence--Cloud Interactions: Laboratory and Field Studies.” October 4, 2005Ravindra Pandey received $46,535 from the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Research Office for “International Conference in Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Engineering.” August 30, 2005Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap has received an addition of $47,000 from the Research Foundation of CUNY (Sponsor: U. S. Department of Army) for his project, “Molecular Nanomaterials for Device Applications.” August 29, 2005Associate Professor Miguel Levy has received a new NSF award of $239,926 for his project “A Nanomagnetic Route to Bias-Magnet-Free On-Chip Faraday Rotators.” This is a 3 year project starting in September 2005. August 15, 2005Professors Pandey, Pati, and Yap received $1,206,316 from the Defence Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) for their 3-year project on molecular electronics. July 1, 2005Assistant Professor Ranjit Pati has received the Research Excellence Fund (REF). The Research Seed amount is $33,972 and the award is from MTU, 2005. The title of the project is, “Theory and Modeling of Molecular Electronics Devices for New Generation Information Processing Technology.” It will support one graduate student for one year and an undergraduate student during the summer. May 9, 2005Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap has received an addition of $18,000 from the Research Foundation of CUNY (Sponsor: U. S. Department of Army) for his project, “Molecular Nanomaterials for Device Applications.” April 18, 2005A recipient of the 2005 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) included Matthew Davenport (advisor Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap), for “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes.” April 14, 2005Professor David F. Nitz has received $247,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy for his project, “RFI Study High Energy Particle Astrophysics.” February 22, 2005Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap has received an NSF CAREER Award for his project, “Synthesis, Characterization and Discovery of Frontier Carbon Materials.” The amount is $117,020 for 4/1/2005 to 3/31/2006, and the total funding for five years is $506,227 (4/1/2005 to 3/31/2010). The project is part of the Solid-State Chemistry programs of the Division of Materials Research (DMR) in the NSF Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MSP). January 21, 2005Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap has received an addition of $37,500 from the Research Foundation of CUNY (Sponsor: U. S. Department of Army) for his project, “Molecular Nanomaterials for Device Applications.” Nanoscience research lead by Assistant Professor Yoke Khin Yap in the DOE Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (http://cnms.ornl.gov/) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is extended for an additional year. Yap research theme on “Controlling Nanostructures of CVD-Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes,” is the only selected project from the state of Michigan.
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