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Yap and Lee in Michigan Tech Research Magazine 2012

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Yap and Lee in Michigan Tech Research 2012Yap, Lee Honored for Nanotube Discoveries

For groundbreaking work in nanotechnology, Yoke Khin Yap and Chee Huei Lee have received Michigan Tech’s Bhakta Rath Research Award.

The award, endowed by 1958 alumnus Bhakta Rath and his wife, Shushama Rath, recognizes a Michigan Tech doctoral student and advisor for “exceptional research of particular value that anticipates the future needs of the nation while supporting advances in emerging technology.”

Read more at Michigan Tech Magazine, by Marcia Goodrich.

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Nemiroff and Students Receive Best Paper Award

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imapCS Faculty/Students Win Best Paper Award

Computer Science Assistant Professor Chaoli Wang, former CS undergraduate student John Reese, former CS MS student Huan Zhang, CS PhD student Jun Tao, and Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff will receive a Best Paper Award for their paper, “iMap: A stable layout for navigating large image collections with embedded search”, at the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, Feb. 4-6, 2013, in Burlingame, Calif. Jun Tao will present the award paper at the conference.

For their next steps, the authors will further develop techniques for animated transition and graph-based image layout, deploy the visualization results on the display wall at the Immersive Visualization Studio (IVS) at the Center for Computer Systems Research (CCSR) for outreach, and eventually release a web-based online program to benefit a wider user base.

From Tech Today.

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Yap Research and Intellectual Property Citation Index

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According to the Intellectual Property Citation Index (IPCI), a product of the National Applied Research Laboratories in Taiwan, Michigan Tech particularly excels in research related to instruments and instrumentation, materials science, electrical engineering and physics.

As an example, physics Professor Yoke Khin Yap’s investigation of boron nitride nanotubes “has yielded important results and has been a recipient of funding from the prestigious National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program,” said Baker. Yap’s research points towards a number of commercial applications in a range of industries from aerospace to alternative energy to medicine.

Read more at Tech Today, by Kevin Hodur.

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Yap Research Receives Funding for Boron Nitride Nanotubes

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Yoke Khin Yap (Physics), Co-PI Dustin Winslow (Physics) and Co-PI
John Diebel (IIE) have received $50,000 from the National Science Foundation for a six-month project, “I-Corps: High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes.”

From Tech Today.

I-Corps: High Quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes

There are few research groups in the world capable of producing high-quality BNNTs. Based on their unique capability in growing high-quality BNNTs researchers will investigate a scanning chemical vapor deposition (SCVD) technique.

Read more at NSF.

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