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Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering

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Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering

Boise State Materials Science and Engineering Programs. We offer undergraduate and graduate degrees and fabulous research opportunities for students.

10/10/2022

Hope you’re having a great Monday!

08/19/2022

Just a little bingo to start off the year! Have questions? This crew is here to help!!

05/19/2022

What a great day to welcome the 2022 Materials for Sustainability cohort! 📸:

05/06/2022

We love our graduates!!

05/04/2022

Special Congratulations to all of our 2022 Student Award Winners!

MSE Undergraduate Service Award Winner - Will Johanson
MSE Graduate Service Award Winner - Cadre Francis

MSE Undergraduate Teaching Award Winner - Katie Bleffert
MSE Graduate Teaching Award Winner - Josh Russell

MSE Undergraduate Research Award Winner - Ashton Enrriques
MSE Graduate Research Award Winner - Samuel Pedersen

MSE Undergraduate Student of the Year - Audrey Parker
MSE Graduate Student of the Year - Kiyo Fujimoto!

We're so proud of all of you!

04/29/2022

seniors! Presenting capstone projects and headed off to change the world!

04/09/2022

Excited to welcome everyone for today!

04/07/2022

Join in person for via zoom for seminar! Raman spectroscopy for characterization of crystalline phases and phase transitions in multifunctional oxide nanostructures

Speaker: Dr. Dmitri A. Tenne, Professor, Department of Physics, Boise State University

Modern science and technology of electronic materials have moved rapidly towards artificially engineered structures at nanometer (one billionth of a meter) scales. Physical behavior of materials at nanoscale is principally different from that of macroscopic materials in many aspects,providing new ways to manipulate and enhance their properties. Complex metal oxides are a vast class of materials that have a wide variety of functional properties attractive for novel device applications. They can be dielectrics,semiconductors, superconductors; possess piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity,ferromagnetism, nonlinear-optical and electro-optical properties, colossal magnetoresistance, etc. Among these functionalities, ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism have been intensively studied over the past few decades. Of major importance for understanding the behavior of ferroelectrics is the dynamics of crystal lattice vibrations, which is related to their fundamental properties. Raman spectroscopy is one of the most powerful analytical techniques for studying the lattice vibrations in solids. It is also a technique capable of distinguishing crystalline polymorphs and detecting phase transformations between different crystal structures in bulk and nanoscale solids. In this talk, applications of ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy for studies of lattice dynamics, crystalline phases, and phase transformations in a variety of nanoscale oxide materials will be presented, such as strained thin films and heterostructures based on barium strontium titanate, multiferroic rare earth ferrites, photocatalytic BiVO4. The effects of strain, film thickness, composition and non-stoichiometry on ferroelectricity and phase diagrams in these nanostructures will be discussed.

04/01/2022

A Snowball's Chance: Resurrecting the Yeti Genome from Glacially Preserved Genomic Specimens

Join us on Friday, 4/1 at 1:30 pm in MCMR 205 to hear from Dr. Eric Hayden, Associate Professor, Biology, Boise State University

Abstract: Yetis have been described in folklore for centuries as ape-like, bipedal creatures that leave behind huge footprints in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. Recently, receding glaciers have allowed researchers to collect samples of fur, bone, teeth, skin, and f***s from a wild area of Nepal known as the Barun Valley. The samples contained well-preserved intact DNA, but mitochondrial DNA sequencing could not unequivocally assign a species to the sample because it had markers of both hominids and bears. Here I report the sequencing and reconstruction of the first draft genome of the Yeti. A combination of short reads (Illumina), chromatin conformation capture (Hi-C) and long-reads (PacBio) were used to reconstruct the genome. The reconstructed genome contained 23 diploid chromosomes, like humans, but was an estimated ~2.6 Gigabases in size, making it intermediate between the size of polar bears and humans. We have obtained adult polar bear stem cell samples from Point Defiance Zoo (Tacoma, WA), and are using CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the genomes of the cells to include the single-nucleotide polymorphisms, chromosomal rearrangements and gene deletions needed to produce viable Yeti chromosomal DNA. In the near future, this DNA can be transplanted into polar bear egg cells and used to artificially inseminate captive polar bears which will give birth to live Yetis, potentially bringing back to life creatures that currently only exist in our imaginations.

Seminar is open to the public and will be held in MCMR 205 or via zoom.

03/21/2022

Missing Pi Day? Relive this year’s excitement with this fun video! Thank you to everyone who participated and donated!

03/18/2022

Join us today (3/18) at 1:30 pm to hear Dr. Mamivand’s seminar on “Materials Informatics: Applications & How to Break into It”

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1375 W University Drive
Boise, ID
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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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http://coen.boisestate.edu/mse/

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