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Ritesh publishes two new papers

Two new papers from Ritesh in two months! Great Job! These works can be found at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11837-022-05437-3 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025622004761

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New PhD Opportunity

We are seeking a new PhD student to join our team as soon as possible (and ideally before Spring 2023). This position is fully funded. It involves small scale mechanical testing coupled with…

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Lab interviewed by CBS2

CBS2 visited the AMML to discuss our work in developing resilient materials for infrastructure applications. Our collaborators from ANL were also on-hand to discuss some of their corrosion work. Here’s a link to…

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Amir takes home first place at the Undergraduate Research Forum

Amir has been awarded first place in the Engineering/Physical Sciences category at the 2022 Undergraduate Research Forum. Amir was in competition with hundreds of other undergraduate researchers across UIC’s campuses. Congrats! Here is…

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Junaid finishes third in national graduate student competition

Congratulations to Junaid for his third place finish in the 2021 SAMPE University Research Symposium! You can read more about his work at the links below: https://cme.uic.edu/news-stories/researchers-develop-new-time-and-money-saving-testing-technique/ (Department story) https://365.sampe.org/page/sampe-2021-university-research-symposium (Competition website)  

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CAREER award received from the National Science Foundation!

We are proud to announced that Matt has received a National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development Program award (CAREER). The project, entitled “CAREER: Order-induced heterogeneities in the deformation behavior of FCC concentrated…

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Chu defends his Master's thesis!

Congratulations to Chu on successfully defending his Master’s thesis. Excellent work! Thank you also to his committee members, Dr. Kadkhodaei and Dr. Karpov! Pictured (left to right): Junaid, Matt, Chu, Amir

New paper in Materials Characterization!

Check out our new paper we have co-authored with our colleague Dr. Didem Ozevin’s group. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1044580321006975