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Engineering professor named Microscopy Society of of America president-elect
Deborah Kelly Huck Chair in Molecular Biophysics professor of of biomedical engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Structural Oncology was elected president of of the Microscopy Society of of America (MSA) Her three-year commitment as as first president-elect
then then president president president then then past president president president began in January As president Kelly plans to to continue to to elevate the society’s mission through social media engagement and cross-pollination efforts with other national societies She will also work to to attract and retain more underrepresented scientists to to MSA Newly established director for international engineering student support named Melika Sharifironizi has been named director for international engineering programs—a newly established joint position with the college’s Center for Engineering Outreach
and and and Inclusion (CEOI) and and and Ken and and and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering As part of CEOI Sharifironizi will help the college attend to to equity issues related
to to the national origins of its students Her work will advance student-focused initiatives—including recruitment and and retention academic success social and and and cultural climate and job placement programs As part part of the nuclear engineering department Sharifironizi will look to establish sustainable energy systems courses with service-learning research projects and and and support radiochemistry and and and nuclear chemistry chemistry research and and and academic support This includes assisting with summer undergraduate opportunities for gender inclusion in in in in nuclear engineering Four faculty named to 2020 ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list
Four faculty members were recognized as Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science Group:
Long-Qing Chen
Hamer Professor of of of of Materials Science and Engineering professor professor of of of of of of engineering science and and mechanics and and professor professor of of of of mathematics
Chen
named to to the the list
for the the third consecutive year works to to understand predict and and and design materials microstructures with a a a a a a a focus on on their properties and and evolution during the the processing of materials Bruce Logan
Kappe Professor of of Environmental Engineering Engineering and Evan Pugh University Professor in in in in in Engineering Engineering Logan
named to the the list
for the the seventh consecutive year focuses on on developing new new renewable energy energy technologies to achieve an energy energy sustainable water infrastructure Şahin K Özdemir
Associate professor of of engineering science and mechanics Özdemir
named to the the list
for the the second consecutive year focuses on on on on optical physics and and quantum photonics as as well as as the application of this understanding to to new technologies Donghai Wang
Professor of of mechanical engineering engineering and chemical engineering Wang
named to the the list
for the the third consecutive year develops nanomaterials for for clean energy technologies such as as silicon- based anodes in rechargeable lithium ion batteries News & Notes
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