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September 19-21, 2023  FSU member Dr. Sangeetha Balabhadra attended the 2023 Neutron Spin Echo (NSE) Educational Workshop at NIST.

July 17 to 21, 2023  FSU member Dr. Menuka Adhikari attended 29th CHRNS School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy.


May 22 - August 4, 2023  FSU undergraduate Thomas Muarry attended the CHRNS CORE summer internship at the partner institution.

  
Thomas (left) and Menuka (right) at the partner institution.

October 28, 2022  Seminar: Neutron Diffraction and its Applications for Structural Investigation of Energy materials, by Dr. Hui Wu, NIST Center of Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, online.

July 24–25, 2022  FSU member Dr. Navadeep Shrivastava attended the Polarized Neutron School at the partner institution NIST.

July 25–29, 2022  FSU member Dr. Navadeep Shrivastava attended the 2022 Polarized Neutrons for Condensed-Matter Investigations organized by the partner at Annapolis, Maryland.

May 23, 2022 to August 05, 2022. FSU undergraduates Caressia Edwards and Washat Ware attended the NSIT SURF summer internship program at the partner institution. Caressia Edwards presented a talk on “Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Analysis of a Model Polycarbonate/Silica Composite System”, and Washat Ware presented a talk on “Determining the validity of Guinier analysis in slit-smeared small angle scattering data”.

January 28 - February 11, 2022 FSU PREM PI Dr. Zhiping Luo attended the 27th CHRNS School on Methods and Applications of Neutron Spectroscopy.

October 1, 2021 - PREM Day @ FSU - Dr. Yimin Mao, a scientist from our partner, visited FSU and delivered a seminar entitled " Preferred Orientation: A Powerful Maneuver for Structural Analysis and Material Design".

(a) PREM group; (b, c) seminar by Dr. Mao; (d-g) PREM group reserach presentation.

April 15, 2021 - Fayetteville State Univeristy team received NASA MUREP Innovation Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC) 2021 award. PREM scholar Lianis Reyes-Rosa is one of the student team members. [Link]

From left to right: Lianis V. Reyes-Rosa, Jennifer Barkley, and Daria Thomas (all undergraduates from the Department of Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science).

April 9, 2021 Seminar: RheoSANS as a Probe for Soft Materials, by Dr. Katie Weigandt, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom virtual seminar).

November 13, 2020 Seminar: Using Neutrons to Explore Hidden Magnetism at the Nanoscale, by Dr. Patrick Quarterman, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom virtual seminar).

October 30, 2020 Seminar: Investigation of the First Intrinsic Topological Insulator: MnBi2Te4, by Dr. William Ratcliff, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Zoom virtual seminar).

February 20, 2020 - PREM Day @ FSU - NSF PREM Program Director Dr. Debasis Majumdar and our partner NIST scientist Dr. Yun Liu made an onsite visit. Dr. Liu presented a seminar entitled " Applications of neutron scattering to address fundamental challenges in industrial applications".

NSF onsite visit
(a) Seminar by Dr. Liu; (b) discussions with Drs. Majumdar and Liu; (c) PREM group; (d) tour of SENCR-MIC; (e-j)  student presentations by Candyce Collins, Carlos Posada, Jessa Guffie, Washat Roxanne Ware, Aspyne Silvestro and Caressia Edwards.

February 6-8, 2020 - PREM undergraduate student Washat Roxanne Ware Received the Best Poster Presentation Award in Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference. [Link]

ERN award

December 1-6, 2019 - Five undergraduates attend the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Mssachusetts.

MRS 2019

Top left: Jessa Guffie (MRS FSU Chapter President); top right: Candyce Collins (MRS FSU Chapter member).
Middle: Jacob Hayes (MRS FSU Chapter Secretary).
Bottom left: Carlos Posada (MRS FSU Chapter Vice President); bottom right: Washat Roxanne Ware (MRS FSU Chapter member),

November 22, 2019, PREM Day @ FSU - Dr. Dan Neumann, Director of CHRNS, and Dr. Julie Borchers, Associate Director of CHRNS, visited FSU and presented a seminar entitled "Neutrons at NIST".


(a) PREM group; (b) Dr. Dan Neumann at seminar; (c) Dr. Dan Neumann teaches students; (d) Dr. Julie Borchers with students; (e-i) student presentation by Candyce Collins, Caressia Edwards, Carlos Posada, Jessa Guffie, and Washat Roxanne Ware; (j) tour of SENCR-MIC; (k) PREM group dinner at Tandoori Bites restaurant.

August 20 through August 26, 2019 - PREM Postdoc Fellow Dr. Sivasankara Ede and student Caressia Edwards conducted on-site research at CHRNS.

 
Undergraduate Caressia Edwards at NIST.

July 26, 2019 - PREM student Lenore Miller was awarded back-to-back internships at the NASA Langley Research Center. She was supported to conduct research at NASA for a year. 
FSU News: Back-to-Back NASA Internships Awarded to Fayetteville State University Student [Link].


June 19, 2019 - Co-PI Dr.  Bhoj Gautam visited CHRNS and presented a seminar: Manipulation of Optoelectronic Properties of Polymer and Perovskite Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Applications, Low-Q Seminar series at NCNR.


Dr. Bhoj Gautam and undergraduate Washat Roxanne Ware at NIST.

Summer 2019 - PREM Student Scholars Candyce Collins and Washat Roxanne Ware conducted NIST SURF research at NIST, Gaithersburg from May 28, 2019 to August 9, 2019.

March 21, 2019 - PREM Student Scholars Candyce Collins and Washat Roxanne Ware were selected to attend the NIST SURF Gaithersburg program in MML/NCNR Materials Science from May 28, 2019 to August 9, 2019.

August 26, 2018 - The IC-PREM project was funded by NSF. [Link]