Education

Special note for Material Advantage members who read this blog

By / July 16, 2010

Are you a Material Advantage member who recently stopped receiving email notices about new posts on this blog? There are about 2,900 of you out there whom we had to…

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DOE’s Nuclear Energy University program announces $18 million in scholarships and grants

By / July 10, 2010

There’s more than $18 million in new funding coming to students and U.S. university programs that are focusing on nuclear power education and research. The DOE’s Nuclear Energy University Program…

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Kudos: Dickey named Texas Tech engineering dean

By / July 9, 2010

Congratulations go out to ACerS member Elizabeth Dickey for being tapped as the next dean of the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dickey has…

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Materials-oriented schools make top-25 of BusinessWeek’s ‘best bargain’

By / July 2, 2010

It’s great to see that a large number of schools that we reference in this blog made it to Bloomberg BusinessWeek‘s new list of the top 25 “best bargain” universities,…

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Now the author claims it’s a ‘joke’

By / July 2, 2010

Postdoc hell, circa 1996. What a laugh riot it must have been working for this guy at Caltech. ‘In addition to the usual work-day schedule, I expect all of the…

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Ceramic Leadership Summit: Students see it as ‘exciting departure from norm’

By David Shahin and Chris Dosch / June 30, 2010

For two students who are used to attending technical conferences like MS&T and ICACC, the experience at the first Ceramic Leadership Summit was an exciting departure from the conference norm.…

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Universities worldwide gearing up for North American Solar Challenge

By / June 10, 2010

Teams from 16 universities are about to embark on an 1,200-mile solar car race through the Midwest. The North American Solar Challenge starts June 20 in Broken Arrow, Okla., and…

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Materials and engineering postdoc and researcher opportunities in Copenhagen

By / June 10, 2010

Weary of looking for materials jobs or grad school/postdoc opportunities in the U.S.? Maybe its time to check out the Technical University of Denmark, located in beautiful Copenhagen. Here are…

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Student perspectives on ceramic and materials education

By / June 10, 2010

What’s on minds of the current group of ceramic and materials science students? The American Ceramic Society wanted to know, so we recruited the ACerS President’s Council of Student Advisors…

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S&T’s Engineers Without Borders bring biosand filtration to Bolivia

By / May 24, 2010

Students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will bring sustainable, clean water to portions of rural Bolivia this summer. Students with the university’s Engineers Without Borders chapter are making…

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