Congratulations to Vijay Chandrasekharan on being selected to receive a Kauffman entrepreneur postdoctoral fellowship. This one year fellowship program emphasizes commercialization of new technologies and seeks to foster entrepreneurship in the nation's top postdoctoral researchers. The official press release and a full list of recipients is available here.

Congratulations Vijay!

Sheetal Shetye will be defending her dissertation, entitled "Magnetic Self-Assembly of Small Parts" on Tuesday, July 21st at 1pm in the Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF) room 115. All are welcome to attend.

Dr. David Arnold has been selected as a winner of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for research entitled "Development of Fully Integrated Micromagnetic Actuator Technologies." The PECASE is the "highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers." Congratulations, Dr. Arnold!

Today, Drew Wetzel is presenting a paper at the 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference in San Antonio, TX entitled "An Experimental Study of Circulation Control on an Elliptic Airfoil."

Chris Bahr and Dr. Fei Liu recently presented their work at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Portland Oregon. Chris' talk was entitled Analysis of Coherent Power Techniques, and Dr. Liu's talk was Acoustic Energy Harvesting Using an Electromechanical Helmholtz Resonator.

Nik Zawodny, Drew Wetzel, and Dr. Fei Liu will be presenting their work at the 30th Annual AIAA Aeroacoustic Conference from May 11-13 in Miami, FL. Nik will be presenting a paper entitled A Comparative Study of a 1/4-scale Gulfstream G550 Nose Gear Model and Drew will be presenting Acoustic Characteristics of a Circulation Control Airfoil . Dr. Liu will present work entitled A Comparison Study of Normal-Incidence Acoustic Impedance Measurements of a Perforate Liner .

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David Arnold is the Technical Program Co-Chair for the upcoming 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications in Washington, DC in November. Click the link for more information.

The National Science Foundation has just announced that IMG senior undergraduate researcher Jared Lee has been selected a winner of a Graduate Research Fellowship. As a winner of this prestigious award, Jared will receive funds for graduate study worth $44,500/yr for three years. Jared plans to begin his graduate work in the fall at Stanford University. Congratulations, Jared!