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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) granted CHiMaD, a multi-institutional, Chicago-based center an additional $25 million over the next five years.

Paul Nealey elected to National Academy of Engineering

Feb 13, 2018

Paul Nealey was elected to National Academy of Engineering!

David Seidman elected to National Academy of Engineering

Feb 13, 2018

David Seidman was elected to National Academy of Engineering

Tobin Marks wins prestigious Harvey Prize

Feb 6, 2018

Mark Hersam named 2018 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Dec 18, 2017

Mark Hersam named 2018 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his significant inventive contributions to the field of nanoelectronic materials, including a series of printable graphene inks and a novel technique that purifies and separates carbon nanotubes, graphene, and other nanomaterials.

ASM Materials Genome Toolkit Winners Announced

Dec 1, 2017

The ASM Materials Education Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 ASM Materials Genome Toolkit competition. As determined by an independent review committee, the undergraduate engineering departments at the University of Florida, the University of Pittsburgh, and Wright State University will receive a three-year site license for a suite of Thermo-Calc software tools intended to aid in the instruction of computational materials design, an emerging engineering practice deemed essential to the success of the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) and global leadership in manufacturing.

CHiMaD at Dow Lab Safety Academy

Nov 30, 2017

In October, NIST-CHiMaD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Jeffrey Ting (University of Chicago) and CHiMaD Graduate Student Kazi Sadman (Northwestern University) attended the The Dow Chemical Company Lab Safety Academy. This two-day event in Midland, MI focused on immersing attendees in an integrated culture of safety at the industry level by highlighting best practices and sharing ideas towards improving laboratory safety standards in academia.

Agrawal Gives Keynote Lecture at MGI Symposium at CMC

Aug 1, 2017

Prof. Ankit Agrawal was recently invited to give a keynote lecture about his research on materials informatics and data mining at the Materials Genome Symposium of Chinese Materials Conference (CMC) 2017, held July 6-12 in Yinchuan, Nigxia, China. His talk was titled, "Materials Informatics and Big Data: Realization of 'Fourth Paradigm' of Science in Materials Science." Chinese Materials Conference is the most important meeting series of Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS).

Joint NIST-CHiMaD Publication

Oct 17, 2017

ACS Macro Letters cover for October features a NIST-CHiMaD joint publication by Debra Audus and Juan De Pablo on Polymer Informatics.

Benchmarking Phase Field Methods

Oct 10, 2022

CHiMaD scientists lead by Heionen publish benchmark questions for phase field methods

ASM International Announces Winners of Materials Genome Toolkit Competition

Jun 1, 2015

Six winning engineering schools, University of Maryland, Michigan Tech, Cal-Poly Pomona, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech, and Alfred University, to be recognized at MS&T2015.