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DMSE News—May
2001
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GRADUATE
ADMISSIONS
Department
Head Subra Suresh reports another exciting incoming graduate class
for Fall 2001. Without replies from all admitted applicants, over
40 students, nine of them recipients of NSF/DoD or other Fellowships,
have accepted their offers of admission and will be beginning
their studies this September.
Classes for DMSE's new MEng degree program will begin in June
of this year. Plans are underway to identify internal and external
resources to support this program at a steady-state ate of approximately
20-25 students each year. A
new "smart classroom" with state-of-the-art electronic
and communications capabilities is being constructed on the fourth
floor of Building 8. This room will be used by the MEng program,
as well as for distance learning and other department activities,
and will be a great addition to our facilities.
Prof.
Suresh thanks Professors Ken Russell, Harry Tuller, and Gene Fitzgerald,
and the Academic Office, the Graduate Committee, and the Graduate
Admissions Committee for all their efforts with the admissions
process for this year. This process would not have been successful
without the enormous efforts of Kathy Farrell and Angelita Mireles
who devoted so much time and energy to the admissions and hosting
activities.
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FACULTY
HONORS
Suresh
to deliver the Kelly Lecture at Cambridge University on NanoMechanical
Technology
Subra Suresh,
R.P. Simmons Professor and Department Head, will deliver the third
annual Kelly Lecture at Cambridge University on June 14, 2001.
This lecture is sponsored and hosted by the Gordon Laboratory
and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cambridge.
The title of Suresh's lecture is: "Nano- and Micro-Scale Mechanical
Properties for Miniature Technologies".
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FACULTY
PROMOTIONS
Anne
M. Mayes, Associate
Professor of Polymer Science, has been promoted to full professor,
effective July 1, 2001. Prof. Mayes was a Course 3 undergraduate,
received the PhD from Northwestern, and joined the MIT faculty
in 1993. In recognition of her dedication to teaching and educational
innovation, she was named a MacVicar Fellow this spring. Prof.
Mayes conducts research in the field of self-organizing polymer
systems, with special emphasis on block copolymers and polymer
surface modification. She has authored or co-authored over fifty
publicatons and has thirteen patents pending. She received the
NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, th Materials Research Society
Outstanding Young Investigator Award in 1998, and the American
Physical Society Dillon Medal for Polymer Physics in 1999.
This
spring, fifteen MIT faculty were promoted to full professor and
twenty-three to associate professor (see Tech
Talk for the complete list).
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QUARTER
CENTURY CLUB
Recent
inductees to MIT's Quarter
Century Club included DMSE's Joel Clark, Harry Tuller, and
Leslie Lawrence. We join the institute in applauding the dedication
these friends have shown to MIT and to the Department.
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ALUMNI
NEWS
Deborah Chung,
Ph.D,in Materials Science, 1977, was recently profiled in Progressive
Engineer, an on-line magazine dedicated to the field and practitioners
of engineering.
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Kemper with news and announcements for this page. The DMSE
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opportunities and job postings in relevant fields.
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