UC Berkeley Engineering Preview Day The College of Engineering is hosting its second annual Engineering Preview Day, April 30-May 2. This 3 day event will allow students to meet individually with engineering faculty in their discipline, socialize with our graduate students, network with campus research centers and Bay Area National Labs as well as tour…
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BENJAMIN M. STATLER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Department of Chemical Engineering in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow to support Dr. Rakesh K. Gupta’s research program on rheology of polymer solutions.…
Postdoctoral Opening at Sandia National Laboratories Fluid Sciences and Engineering Department The Fluid Sciences and Engineering Department is seeking an applicant for a post-doctoral appointment. The applicant must have a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or other related engineering field. The applicant should have a strong background in solving coupled multi-physics problems,…
Congratulations to Prof. Ubaldo M Córdova-Figueroa and his colleagues from Pennsylvania State University and the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics in Russia for their contributions in the area of self-powered micropumps in the prestigious Nature Chemistry. Samudra Sengupta, Debabrata Patra, Isamar Ortiz-Rivera, Arjun Agrawal, Sergey Shklyaev, Krishna K. Dey, Ubaldo Córdova-Figueroa, Thomas E. Mallouk & Ayusman…
English Version: On March 17th, 2014 the Research & Development Center (RDC) unit of the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM) received notification of a grant award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to support Phase II of the UPRM CREST: Nanotechnology Center for Biomedical, Environmental and Sustainability Applications. The grant award was made…
Dr. Oscar Perales, from the Department of Engineering Science & Materials-UPRM will be offering a lecture titled “Nanomaterials Processing: Taking Advantage of the Improved Quality of the Building Blocks for Novel Nanotechnologies” Date: March 27, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: INQU 004 – Amphitheater Abstract: Two issues of great importance for future nanotechnologies will be…
FIRST stands for Focusing on Industrial Recruitment of Scientific Talent. For the last 23 years, the conference has exposed, recruited, and employed top PhD talent from the African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American communities. The conference provides participants with a clear picture of the career opportunities, expectations, and challenges that exist in industrial research. Participants will travel…
Soliciting Concept Papers for ISS Post-Graduate Innovation Awards in Space Life and Physical Science Research (NRA NNJ14ZBG001N) Concept Paper Due: July 10th, 2014 This solicitation is targeted at Graduate Ph.D. students and Post-Doctoral Fellows who have never participated in any variations of space flight research and have no experience in designing ISS spaceflight scientific investigations. Student…
Dr. Tiffany D. Rau, technical/scientific lead for fermentation and isolation for Research and Development and Manufacturing activities at Eli Lilly in Puerto Rico will be offering a lecture titled “Fermentation: From Discovery to Commercialization” Date: March 20, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: Department of Physics – Eugene Francis Room Abstract: The path from discovery to…