Category: Research

Associate Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) and his graduate student, Swarup China, published an article in the journal Nature Communications on the structure and properties of soot produced by biomass burning.

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Morphology and mixing state of individual freshly emitted wildfire carbonaceous particles

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3122

The March/April edition of the magazine Rocks & Minerals would be considerably slimmer if physics professor John Jaszczak’s contributions were extracted.

With John Rakovan (Miami University), he coordinated a series of articles on mining in the Arusha region of Tanzania. He coauthored “Miracle at Merelani,” an article on minerals found at the Karo Mine, providing electron microscope images and photos of many showy specimens from the Seaman Mineral Museum. He also edited a pictorial of Merelani, a village near the mine.

In addition, he coauthored “Fluorapatite from a Remarkable Occurrence of Graphite and Associated Minerals,” providing three photos for the article.

Lastly, Jaszczak wrote the Word to the Wise column entitled “Raman Spectroscopy in the Identification and Study of Minerals,” which introduced readers to this powerful tool for identifying and characterizing minerals.

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Yoke Khin Yap (Physics) has received a $140,000 research grant for “Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Boron Nitride Nanostructures” from the National Science Foundation. It is for the first year of a three-year project totaling $420,000.

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Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics) has received $39,937 grant from the US Department of Energy, for a three-year, $132,465 research project, ” Atmospheric Transport: Understanding Results from the DOE’s 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLo Campaigns.”

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Assistant Professor Claudio Mazzoleni (Physics/EPSSI), “Collaborative Research: Aging of Black Carbon during Atmospheric Transport: Understanding Results from the DOE’s 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLo Campaigns,” DOE.

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Research Excellence Fund Awards Announced

The vice president for research is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Research Excellence Fund Award. Associate Professor of Physics Will Cantrell received an Infrastructure Enhancement Grant.

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Michigan Tech faculty, staff members, and students received awards tallying $ 96,635 in funding through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Physics graduate student Colin Gurganus received a $5,000 fellowship for his project entitled “Examining the Role of Surface Roughness on Atmospheric Nucleation Processes.”

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PI Raymond Shaw and Co-PI Jiang Lu (Physics) have received $124,554 for the first year of a three-year $380,011 research grant, “Investigating the Effect of Solar Activity During a Grand Minimum on Clouds” from NASA.

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Adj. Assistant Professor Siegfried Hoefinger (Physics) and Professor and Chair of Department Ravindra Pandev (Physics), “An Innovative Model for Large-Scale Simulation of Membrane Proteins,” NIH.

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