Ursu Receives Undergraduate Research Scholarship
Samuel Clay Ursu, a senior in metallurgical and materials engineering, was selected for a prestigious undergraduate scholarship by the Microscopy Society of America.
Category Awards & Honors
Thompson Earns International Recognition for Materials Characterization Research
Dr. Gregory Thompson, Distinguished University Research Professor and executive director of the Alabama Materials Institute, has been named a fellow of the International Field Emission Society.
Professor Roy Receives Top Research Honors
Dr. Samit Roy, William D. Jordan Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, will receive the University of Alabama’s Senior Research Scholar award on April 22, 2024. The President’s Faculty Research Award, sponsored by the UA president and the vice president for research & economic development, is awarded to outstanding faculty researchers from…
AMI-Affiliated Faculty Members Win NSF CAREER Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Nilesh Kumar, assistant professor of metallurgical & materials engineering, and Dr. Tibor Szilvasi, assistant professor of chemical & biological engineering, at The University of Alabama, for their designation as 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardees. Per NSF, “The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science…
UA Materials Science Students Recognized for High-Impact Contributions
A contingent of University of Alabama materials science graduate students participated in in the annual UA-UAH-UAB Materials Science Symposium held at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Integration Center on the campus of UA-Huntsville. The symposium hosted both a poster as well as oral presentation sessions. Through this event students, faculty, industrial, and federal laboratory researchers…
Graduate Student Recognized at Prestigious Atom Probe Conference
Michael Pavel, a PhD student in materials science, recently won best poster at the Atom Probe Tomography & Microscopy meeting in Belgium.
UA Wins National Science Foundation DMREF Grant
On September 20, 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced their selection of 37 four-year grants in the highly competitive “Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)” program. The University of Alabama is one of the awardees. Professor Gregory Thompson (Metallurgical & Materials Engineering) will lead a team of faculty and students from…