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Michael Toriyama selected to attend NCRC Conference

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Congratulations to Michael Toriyama for being selected by the Harvard College Undergraduate Research Association (HCURA) to present RSSEL’s work on Multi-Scale Computational Irradiation Surface Science at the 2017 National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) at Harvard University.

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Hanna Schamis’ internship at ITER strengthens collaboration in PMI

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Hanna Schamis will be the first RSSEL graduate student to conduct research at ITER during her five month internship opportunity at the world’s largest fusion experiment in Spring 2017. Under the supervision of  Gregory de Temmerman, Coordinating Scientist Plasma Edge & PWI Science and Operations Department (SCOD)/Science Division (SD)/Tungsten Divertor & Plasma-Wall Interactions Section (TDPW),  Hanna will be working on […]

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Brandon Holybee receives the Lam Research Corporation Scholarship

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Congratulations to Brandon Holybee, who has been selected to receive the prestigious Lam Research Corporation Scholarship. Lam Research Corporation is an American corporation that engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.

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Felipe Bedoya and Hanna Schamis’ work highlighted by PPPL Weekly

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NPRE’s graduate students Felipe Bedoya and Hanna Schamis have been highlighted for their work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) this year. Felipe Bedoya was a visiting graduate student at PPPL during the last NSTX-U run period, during which he took thesis data with the Materials Analysis and Particle Probe (MAPP) developed at RSSEL.  Bedoya used the […]

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Prof. Allain named 2016-17 Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow

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Prof. Allain has been chosen as an Engineering at Illinois’  Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellow for the 2016-17 year. He joins the second class of Faculty Entrepreneurial Fellows, a program first of its kind in a U.S. College of Engineering supported by a group of passionate alumni. Fellows focus on bringing their work to the world by developing a technology and […]

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Prof. Allain IEEE – NPSS Distinguished Lecturer

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Professor Allain has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society for his lectures “Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors” and “Directed Irradiation Synthesis: manipulating matter in nanoscale self-organized systems“. NPSS Distinguished Lecturers are volunteers who are nominated by the NPSS […]

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Sandra Arias presents contributed talk at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress

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Sandra Arias will give the contributed talk Magnetic bacterial nanocellulose for neurovascular reconstruction in cerebral aneurysm treatment applications at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC) to be held in Montreal, Canada from May 17 -22, 2016. With over 3500 abstracts submitted by the September 30, 2015 deadline, WBC2016 is on track to be the largest scientific gathering of biomaterials scientists […]

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First Plasma in Hybrid Illinois Device for Research and Applications (HIDRA)

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HIDRA, the former WEGA stellarator/tokamak, arrived at Illinois in Nov. 2014 from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik and has been under assembly for the last 18 months (watch assembly). On Friday April 22, 2016 HIDRA had its first confined plasma at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, event attended by over 100 people including the Dean of Engineering, the Nuclear, […]

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