Posts pre-2020

These are the news items from before 2020, added here for posterity 🙂

  • Qiyang’s recent work on tuning thermal conductivity in SrCoOx was featured in MIT News[link] Read the paper here [link]
  • Jing Yang successfully defended her PhD thesis – congratulations Dr. Yang! [link]
  • Congratulations to Yan for winning the Young Investigator Award, to Dongha for winning the best poster award, and to Prof. Yildiz for being elected as the vice president/president elect of the International Solid State Ionics Society!
  • Congratulations to Jiayue for winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at NSE!
  • Congratulations to Jing for winning the Gold Student Awards at MRS fall 2018 Meeting! [link] [link]
  • Research highlight at Nature Nanotechnology: Beyond Traditional Reactivity Models[link]
  • Congratulations to Dr. Lixin Sun for successfully defending her thesis![link] [link]
  • Prof. Yildiz is in Today’s MIT spotlight on its diverse and globally engaged community. [link] [link]
  • Congratulations to Yen-Ting for being selected as the recipient of the Best Paper Award for Second or First Year Student at DMSE![link]
  • Congratulations to Qiyang for being selected as the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award at DMSE![link]
  • Congratulations to Qiyang, Nikolai, Lixin, Ethan and Bilge for winning the Ross Coffin Purdy Award [link] of the American Ceramic Society for their paper on perovskite surface chemistry! [link] [link]
  • Congratulations to Vrindaa, Yenting and Dongha for passing their PhD qualifying exam!
  • Congratulations to Prof. Yildiz on becoming a full professor!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Qiyang Lu for successfully defending his thesis!
  • Mostafa’s work is highlighted on MIT home page today![link]
  • Congratulations to Lixin for winning the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from NSE!
  • Congratulations to Lixin and Qiyang for winning the Silver and Gold Student Awards at MRS spring 2017 Meeting![link]
  • Our work is highlighted on the Advanced Science News website![link]
  • Nikolai, Qiyang, Lixin and Ethan’s work is highlighted on the ALS website![link]
  • Nikolai, Qiyang, Lixin and Ethan’s work is highlighted on MIT home page today![link]
  • Our work got awarded MITEI seed fund to improve oxide catalyst surfaces together with our collaborator Professor Ghoniem.[link]
  • Congratulations to Aravind Krishnamoorthy for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
  • Mostafa’s work is on MIT news![link]
  • Qiyang’s work is on MIT news![link]
  • International team, including Yildiz and Adepalli, decode new processes in ReRAMs.[link]
  • Congratulations to Wen Ma for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
  • Congratulations to Sean for winning the Young Scientist Award, to Dario for being a finalist at the YAS competition, to Kiran and Tobi for best poster awards, to Lixin and Qiyang for excellent oral and poster presentations, at the Solid State Ionics Conference!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Yan Chen for winning a continuing Faculty of the Future Fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation!
  • Congratulations to Lixin and Minh for winning Nuclear Science and Engineering Annual Awards! [link]
  • Lixin’s research work is profiled in an article on the MIT News website. [link]
  • Congratulations to William Herbert for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!
  • Prof. Bilge Yildiz’s work is profiled in an article on the MIT website! [link]
  • MIT’s Material Processing Center has a spotlight on the research being done in the Yildiz Group! [link]
  • Our group’s research related to SOFCs and corrosion is highlighted by MIT MPC ! [Links 1 and 2]
  • MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program has a spotlight on the surface science research done in the Yildiz Group! [link]
  • The Yildiz Group will be working on an Oxygen-creating instrument that will fly on the Mars 2020 NASA mission! [link]
  • Congratulations to Yan Chen for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis! Welcome to the group Dr. Chen!
  • Congratulations to Prof. Yildiz on becoming a tenured faculty member at MIT!! [link]
  • Yan’s research work is profiled in an article on the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering website. [link]
  • Prof. Yildiz’s article on strain engineering is featured on the MIT News page! [link]
  • Congratulations to Yan Chen for winning the “Faculty for the Future” fellowship from Schlumberger! [link]
  • Congratulations to Yan Chen for winning the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad!
  • Recent article by Professor Yildiz on Elastic Strain Engineering of catalytic oxides.
  • Congratulations to Lixin Sun and Qiyang Lu for passing their qualifying exams in NSE and DMSE!
  • Congratulations to Qiyang, Nikolay, Yan, Wonyoung, Jeong Woo and Professor Yildiz for winning two best poster awards, on two posters presented by Qiyang and by Professor Yildiz, at the Solid State Ionics Conference in Kyoto, Japan!
  • Professor Yildiz is elected to the board of the International Solid State Ionics Society, as a councilor from America.
  • Congratulations to Qiyang for passing his PhD qualifying exam!
  • Congratulations to Yue Fan for successfully defending his PhD thesis and winning the Manson Benedict Award of NSE.
  • Congratulations to Minh Dinh for winning the Outstanding UROP award of NSE
  • Congratulations to Prof. Yildiz for winning the Charles Tobias Young Investigator award at the 2012 fall joint international meeting of the Electrochemical Society and the Electrochemical Society of Japan [link]
  • Congratulations to Yue Fan for winning both the 2013 Aneesur Rahman Postdoctoral Fellowship of Argonne National Laboratory and the 2013 Wigner Postdoctoral Fellowship of Oak Ridge National Laboratory! He will start his postdoc at ORNL in July 2013. [link]
  • Our novel surface science studies on stress corrosion highlighted on the cover page of the MITEI Energy Futures Magazine! [PDF]
  • Congratulations to Yue for his research featured on MIT home page! [link]
  • Congratulations to Jeong Woo and Wonyoung for getting faculty positions in Korea!
  • Professor Yildiz is the 2012 winner of the Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society. Congratulations to the entire LEI group! [link]
  • Professor Yildiz is part of the research team who won the Somiya Award of IUMRS for international collaboration. [link]
  • Research Spotlight: New insights into surfaces advance energy conversion technologies [link]
  • Professor Yildiz wins CAREER award from NSF. [link]
  • Congratulations to Yue Fan for winning the Young Scientist Best Presentation award at Nuclear Materials (NuMat) 2010 Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7, 2010. Research spotlight: Small-scale understanding, large-scale enhancement [link]
  • Professor Bilge Yildiz appointed to the Rasmussen Chair in Nuclear Science and Engineering. [link]
  • Professor Yildiz’ group will participate in the DOE-Nuclear Energy Innovation Hub: “MIT partners in DOE-funded Nuclear Energy Innovation Hub
  • Professor Yildiz’ group will participate in the BP-MIT-Manchester center for corrosion research: “MIT and the University of Manchester link up to research engineering materials and corrosion
  • Joe Fricano recieved the NRC Nuclear Education Fellowship for the Spring 2009 term.
  • Professor Yildiz receives grant from DOE’s Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance to advance solid oxide fuel cell technology. [link]
  • Professor Bilge Yildiz won the ANS Faculty PAI Outstanding Teaching Award.
  • Anna Nikiforova won the DOE-NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship for four years.
  • Dr. Burc Misirlioglu won the UConn, School of Engineering Outstanding Thesis Award.
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