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Author: Erico Fraga Freitas

2025 Conferences for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics

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ACMAL is pleased to support the 2025 Conferences for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) held at Michigan Tech January 24-26.  Dr. Erico Freitas and Isabella Jaszczak led the Transmission Electron Microscopy Workshop during the event. Seventy attendees joined the TEM Workshop at the STEM Lab on January 25 and 26. Participants were able to see in real time the acquisition of atomic resolution images, electron diffraction patterns, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) analysis during the event. The hands-on workshop allowed great discussions about the physics behind the TEM with the students.

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Erico demonstrating to students in the lab.
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Fall 2024 Electron Microscopy Workshop at ACMAL, MTU

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I am delighted to share we had a wonderful Electron Microscopy Workshop at Michigan Technological University, in ACMAL shared core facility. Graduate students, postdocs and staff attended the event this Fall 2024.

Dr. Erico Freitas conducted one-on-one hands-on SEM and STEM sessions utilizing the ThermoFisher Apreo2 Field-Emission SEM and the FEI Titan Themis STEM to help ACMAL user community to get the most of these cutting-edge research instruments.

“Thank you for the opportunities ACMAL is providing. The workshop gave me more expertise in Apreo 2 SEM” (Shebeer A Rahim, Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering).

“While I didn’t necessarily get the data I was looking for, I learned quite a bit about the process and know how I should move forward if I want to utilize this instrument in the future” (Ben Jewell, PhD candidate – Mechanical Engineering).

“It was interactive and very informative” (Raksha Dubey D., PhD candidate; Physics).

“This is a very useful and inspiring workshop that allows us to explore the interesting features in microscopy and x-ray diffraction from many aspects” (Dr. Peijia Lin, Research Associate, Chemical Engineering)

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