Greg Crawford, dean of the College of Science, hosted the annual Dean’s Award Luncheon on Friday, May 17, 2013 in the Jordan Hall of Science Galleria. Over 250 students, family members, faculty, and staff were in attendance to celebrate the achievements of the college’s top graduates from the Class of 2013.
The Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) has awarded 29 undergraduate research fellowships for this summer. Each student will work with a faculty-led research team and complete a 10-week project in nanoscience or nanoengineering. This is the fifth year of the program and will include students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, Ivy Tech Community College, and Purdue College of Technology. There are also several students from Ireland who will attend the program as part of the Naughton Fellowship Exchange program and three students from universities in India.
The National Science Foundation has funded an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program that will support 12 Notre Dame Ph.D. students to do research at any of three laboratories in Sweden. Paul Helquist, associate chair for research in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is principal investigator for the project. The award is for nearly $250,000.
Adjunct Professor Don Lincoln is the 2013 recipient of the Outreach Prize from the European Physical Society, High Energy Physics Division.
The University of Notre Dame’s International Studies office has announced that it will offer three new opportunities for study abroad in South Korea, Spain and Switzerland in spring 2014, providing new options for students who want to study science and engineering abroad.
The College of Science Joint Annual Meeting (COS-JAM) attracted over 300 student attendees to the Jordan Hall of Science on Friday, May 3. This year, 146 abstracts were submitted from 188 undergraduate researchers. Students presented their original research in the areas of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Physics. In addition, six guest presenters from the Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair for K–12 students exhibited their research in the Galleria. Participation at this year’s event was the largest in the seven-year history of COS-JAM.
Several College of Science graduate students have recently been recognized for their hard work and research in and out of the laboratory.
Two College of Science students have received Fulbright scholarships to conduct research in Singapore this year. Patrick Kramer, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry this year, and Amy Klegarth, a third year graduate student who has worked in Singapore before, will be involved in different kinds of research.
Applied and computational mathematics and statistics graduate student, Wenzhao Sun, was part of the top team awarded $3,500 for using “big data” sciences to advance media companies. The competition, sponsored by Schurz Communications, encouraged students to develop digital solutions and innovations for media companies.
Jennifer Tank of the Department of Biological Sciences was selected by a faculty committee to receive the 2013 James A. Burns, CSC Award, and Kathie Newman, of the Department of Physics, was selected to receive the 2013 Director of Graduate Studies Award.