2020

Oct 23, 2020

AIF Program Specialist Wins COE Award of Excellence

Anna Lumpkin is recognized as a 2020 winner of the NC State College of Engineering Award for Excellence. Anna is one of only two winners in the SHRA employee classification. The…

Oct 23, 2020

Meet Michael Spencer

Tell me a little about yourself! I am a 4th year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering, working in Dr. Veronica Augustyn’s research group. I am also the current…

Sep 25, 2020

Meet Milad Shamsi

Tell me a little about yourself! I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, working under Dr. Michael D. Dickey and Dr. Richard J. Spontak. It is…

Sep 25, 2020

AIF TEM Research Associate Wins M&M Student Poster

  Aubrey Penn, President-Elect of the MSA Student Council, won the 2020 M&M Student Poster Award. Her poster, A STEM-EELS Investigation of La0.7Sr0.3CrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Multilayer Thin Films, was a winner in the…

Sep 16, 2020

AIF “Best Papers” Wanted

We are pleased to announce the competition for the eighth annual Best Paper Award for work performed, in part, at the Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF), NC State’s primary shared facility for materials characterization.    …

Sep 16, 2020

AIF User Wins Second Place in 2020 Envisioning Research Contest

Each year, the Graduate School, Office of Research and Innovation, Office of Undergraduate Research, NC State University Libraries, and University Communications and Marketing awards thousands of dollars to the Wolfpack…

Aug 21, 2020

Meet Ahmed Darwish

Tell me a little about yourself! I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the department of nuclear engineering, working with Profs Jacob Eapen and KL Murty on understanding wear behavior…

Aug 11, 2020

Welcome Back, Wolfpack!

As the fall semester ramps up, the staff at AIF would like to welcome our AIF users back to campus. This past year has posed enormous challenges, but we are…

Jul 27, 2020

Building Better Blocks and a Brighter Future

24 high school students participated in the Materials Science and Engineering summer camp “Building Better Blocks.” This camp has run successfully for over a decade, so despite social distancing constraints…

Jul 23, 2020

Meet Jacob Smith

Tell me a little about yourself! At this time, I have almost completed my first year as a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering department under the supervision…