MSE News Archive

2010

• Ryan Comes awarded presitigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship

• CESE students place in top spots at NACE Conference poster competition

• MSE publishes first departmental Newsletter

2009

• John Scully wins H.H. Uhlig Award presented by the Electrochemical Society's Corrosion Division

• U.Va. Center Looks to Mitigate Problems of Corrosion of Engineered Materials

• Four CESE students take honors at DOD Corrosion Conference

• Tom Marshburn (Engineering Physics 84') takes a spacewalk

• Dana Elzey recieves 2009 Mac Wade Award for Outstanding Service

• James Wollmershauser selected for Seaborg Institute Summer Research Fellowship

• Jiwei Lu selected as 2009 FEST Awardee

• Engineering Science student William Jacobs, selected as Goldwater Scholar

• UVA's Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering selected to receive the 2009 NACE Distinguished Organization Award

2008

• Raul Baragiola Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

• Santhana Eswaramoorthy selected 2008 recipient of the Gwathmey Memorial Award

•Material Scientist Leland Melvin selected for Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission

• Derek Thomas places first the 2008 ICPEPA Conference

• Jen Warner wins "Best in Class" award at at the 7th Int. Conference on Fatigue Damage in Materials

• Navy Researcher Elissa Bumiller Tackles Corrosion 'In the Fleet'

• Ashley Lucente chairs Graduate Seminar at Gordon Research Conference in Corrosion

•U.Va. Engineer Rob Kelly Contributes to Design of Pentagon Memorial

• NASA Grants $415,000 to professors Rob Kelly and Matt Neurock to study Aluminum-Water surface corrosion and reactions

• Prof. Rob Kelly awarded Harold S. Morton Undergraduate Teaching Award

• Nicole Tailleart earns first place among poster presenters at the 2007 Tri-Service Conference

• NanoDays: A successful afternoon of learning about nanoscience and nanotechnology

2007

Prof. John Dorning elected to membership into the National Academy of Engineering

Beth Kehler wins A.B. Campbell Award

Elodie Leveugle on wins the Award for Excellence in Scholarship

CGEP honors Prof. Bill Johnson with Instructor of the Year for distance learning

2006

Mark Loeffler recieves AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award

University of Virginia Professor Robert Kelly's Rust Research Proves Valuable to Pentagon 9/11 Memorial

U.Va. Engineering Joins Statewide Partnership for Nanotechnology, Wins $600,000 NSF Innovation Grant

Pictures from the 2006 Graduation Luncheon

Chris Taylor selected to receive the 2006 Gwathmey Memorial Award

NACE/2006 Poster Session Awardees

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf and Edgar A. Starke Jr. award recipients at the 135th TMS & AIME meeting in San Antonio, Texas March 2006

Nitin Singh receives SEAS Outstanding Teaching Award

John Scully recognized by ECS+ASTM

2005

Bill Johnson wins VEF Award

Edgar A. Starke TMS Award recipient

Two MSE faculty awarded tenure

Countdown to Saturday Launch

Greg Olsen to visit Int'l Space Station

Doris Wilsdorf elected TMS Fellow

Richard Gangloff named Ferman W. Perry Professor and Chair

Introducing New Faculty Members William Soffa and Stuart Wolf

Leonid V. Zhigilei receives the National Science Foundation CAREER award for “Computer Modeling of Short Pulse Laser Interaction with Metals,” 2004.

Jim Howe receives the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's "Champion H. Mathewson Award."

Gary Shiflet and Joseph Poon Recognized for Their Discovery of a New Metal that Could Revolutionize Industry

2004

Gary Shiflet and Joseph Poon named "Research Leader" in Chemicals and Materials on the 2004 "Scientific American 50".

William A. Jesser receives VEF "Distinguished Service Award."

Leland D. Melvin ('91), Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate Award, 2004

Rob Kelly receives 2004 All-University Teaching Award

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf awarded honorary doctorate of science degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa

Leonid V. Zhigilei awarded NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams) grant

U.Va. Patent Foundation Honors Haydn N. Wadley

Matthews Family Contributes Additional Funds to Wilsdorf Hall

Professors Elzey and Fitz-Gerald lead Wheelchair Translation Project

Discovery of New Metal Could Revolutionize Industry

Wilsdorf Hall Ground Breaking

U.Va. Patent Foundation Honors Haydn N. Wadley

 

2002

Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Named U.Va. Inventor of the Year

2001

Robert Hull- Nanotechnology: making parts small so big things can happen