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• UNL physicists to lead $7 million research collaboration. Alexei Gruverman; Peter Dowben, CNFD associate director; Kirill Belashchenko; Xia Hong, Evgeny Tsymbal, CNFD director, and Christian Binek.

• Brian Robertson "was minutes from the marathon finish" reports the Scarlet." see article on NCMN Facebook.
  
  

• UNL team discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers - Yuris Dzenis and colleagues developed an exceptionally thin polyacrilonitrile nanofiber, a type of synthetic polymer related to acrylic, using a technique called electrospinning. The process involves applying high voltage to a polymer solution until a small jet of liquid ejects, resulting in a continuous length of nanofiber.

• Individual Entry Winners of The Spring 2013 Science Art competition announced!

  1^st Place – Tyler Holm & 2^nd Place – Zhanping Xu  (SEE FACEBOOK PHOTOS)
  Honorable Mention - Alexey Lipatov, Qingfeng Dong, PremKumar Thirugnanam, Gilbert Mbah & Thomas Smith, Scientist/Artist Pair Group - Wei Xiong & Joel Brehm – 1^st Place

• Busy summer schedule for NCMN Ed/Outreach - Fellows Training May 29 or 31, NanoArt Exhibit at the Nebraska City Union Thursday, May 30, 9:00-10:00 am-setup will run from June 1–July 12, Bright Lights Junior High Teaching Camp June 4, 9-12:00 pm-Teaching Junior High Students how to Teach Nanoscience Kits, Preservice Teachers Workshop June 5, 8-12:00 pm-Demonstrate to Teachers how to use Nanoscience Kits, NIOSH Workshop - NCMN Facilities Tour 1 Monday, June 10, 3:30-4:00 pm-NIOSH Workshop presenters & EHS workers, NIOSH Safety Workshop Tuesday, June 11, 8-5:00 pm-Room 207, NIOSH Workshop - NCMN Facilities Tour 2  Tuesday, June 11, 12:30-1:00 pm-NIOSH Workshop attenders, Bright Lights Nano Camp June 17-21, 9-12:00 pm-20 junior high students learning nanoscience

• An international team of scientists, including Nebraska MRSEC physicists Evgeny Tsymbal, Alexei Gruverman and J. D. Burton, has discovered a new approach to realize giant resistive switching, as reported in Nature Materials and featured in the UNL press release.
  
  
• Tim Gay, professor of physics, will present the spring Nebraska Lecture titled - Football: Its Physics and Future at 12:15 p.m. on April 5 in Memorial Stadium, West Stadium Club. The lecture is free and open to the public. A live webcast will be available.
  
  

• John Woollam receives national physics prize - UNL Today press release.

• Evgeny Tsymbal was named a George W. Holmes University Professor of Physics and Astronomy.  Continue reading...

• Job Announcment: SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS - NANOSCALE MAGNETIC MATERIALS by NCMN

• A UNL team led by Yuris Dzenis aims to create high-quality, lower-cost nanofibers.

• Linxia Gu - Today @ UNL "Engineer aims to reduce blood vessel stent complications" Continue reading…

• Jinsong Huang's NSF CAREER project on high efficiency organic solar cells is highlighted by NSF Discoveries: Producing Solar Energy Materials That Are Affordable, Efficient and Flexible and his research is featured as the "Breaking Story" on NSF's Science 360 News Service.
  
  

• The Spring 2013 Science Art competition is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. Purpose: To celebrate the aesthetic appeal and creativity of nanoscience. see ANNOUNCMENT
  Submission: Template Link 1) Upload the finished file, using the instructions on the UNL Dropbox site at http://is.unl.edu/dropbox/.  2) Email Terese Janovec (tjanovec3@unl.edu) the link to your file so your picture can be included in the competition.  See 2012 submissions at: http://www.unl.edu/ncmn/nanoart.shtml
  
               NANODAYS 2013    Saturday, April 6, 2013   1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
                                Gateway Shopping Mall (61st & O Street)
                     Journal Star: Free NanoDay event for families on April 6
  

• NSF CAREER Award Seminar

  The Office of Research and Economic Development is hosting an NSF CAREER award seminar entitled "How to Write a Competitive CAREER Proposal" on Thursday, April 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the East Campus Union (Prairie Suite). Eligible junior faculty members are encouraged to attend. Please visit http://research.unl.edu/events/event2.php?eventID=521 to register. 

• A retirement reception for Brian Robertson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is 3 p.m. April 30 in W342 Nebraska Hall. The reception is free and open to the faculty, staff and students.
  
  

• Graduate Studies presents 12 awards.

• Xia Hong has created Phis's World (a cartoon approach to high school physics eduation) Episode 1: "Phis wants to be a Physicist" as part of her National Science Foundation funding. Her graduate student Zhiyong Xiao has constructed a website that hosts this comic series.

• David J. Sellmyer has been quoted by C&EN article, "Powerful Pull To New Magnets" A recent article published in NANO Letters (Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/nl200311w) was referenced (Co-authored by Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, Shah R. Valloppilly, Jeffrey E. Shield, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer.)
  
  

• NSF career award aids Jinsong Huang's efforts to build better solar cell.

• Xiao Cheng Zeng becomes an Associate Editor for the journal "Nanoscale" of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• David Sellmyer honored with a Distinguished Achievement Award at the 22^nd International Conference on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets and their Applications in Nagasaki, Japan. The award was sponsored by the Iketani Science and Technology Foundation of Japan

2012 NCMN/Bright Lights Nanocamp Presenters (middle school camp: grades 6-8)

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