UtahMRSEC

04/17/2017

It was another great competition season helping out with the Utah Science Olympiad. Congratulations to all the dedicated coaches, competitors and parents. We could not run this event without the Utah Science Olympiad team of volunteer event coordinators, U of U students and staff.

10/09/2016

Thank you to the School of Medicine for letting us drop eggs over the balcony all morning!
These kids had a blast engineering contraptions to protect their raw eggs in Operation Egg Drop. Power Science and Science Navigators will solve a lot of the world's problems!

10/05/2016

Forget perfection, take the risk!

We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program -- two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot...

08/10/2016

Nice work Utah MRSEC team! Read the publication: http://goo.gl/7csGNc

University of Utah electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez has discovered that interfacing two particular oxide-based materials makes them highly conductive, a boon for future electronics.

07/07/2016

Shedding light on semiconductors.

Utah engineer discovers light can stamp out defects in semiconductors for better solar panels and LED bulbs

05/13/2016

Where chemistry, engineering and physics intersect: materials science. We're hosting a free Materials Science Summer Camp for Teachers. Recommended for physical science educators teaching 5th grade through community college. Informal science outreach educators welcome too! More info here.https://goo.gl/TRVrCu

03/08/2016

The selection committee for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings chose our own Graduate Research Associate, Ryan McLaughlin, to attend this summer in Germany! He's one of 55 delegates selected from hundreds of applicants. http://www.lindau-nobel.org/meeting/

02/03/2016

They used a single silver atom as the toggle for an in-line digital switch for optical signals.

A slot waveguide, consisting of a silver electrode (gray), tapered to a point, separated from a platinum electrode (green) by a 20-nm gap, allows 1.55-μm light in the waveguide to be converted into subwavelength surface plasmons that can pass through the gap. Applying a voltage differential between…

11/20/2015

We're so excited to sponsor the Chain Reaction teacher training program, where understanding the fundamentals of materials science begins!

Empowering Teachers and Students to Explore Science Education Make Your Reservation Contact us at 801-456-5437 x137 or sign up here! Program Description SIGN UP NOW! Chain Reaction was developed to support teachers through informative, hands-on science training, as well as through supplemental mater…

10/26/2015

Water added to calcium carbide produces flammable gas, and Halloween entertainment for our all-girls science club!

09/04/2015

Good reminder to keep it safe out there in the labs!