Congratulations to our undergraduate student Charlie Teeter on completing his senior design project! Charlie spent his time in the DCG focusing on refractory alloys with Noah Phillips at ATI. Thanks to David Beaudry for his mentorship and the ONR MURI program for support of Charlie’s work! We are excited to... Read More

The DCG is innovating for a brighter future in women’s reproductive health. PhD candidates Vivian Su and Nick Gigliotti used the bioprinter at the MCP to understand the mechanical properties underlying the structure of the cervix during pregnancy. They presented their findings at the 71st Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI)... Read More

The DCG attended TMS 2024 earlier this month in Orlando, FL. Pictured is Dr. Elaf Anber giving her talk: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor: Tracking Chemical Short-Range Order and Its Impacts on Corrosion Resistance in a Medium Entropy Alloy”. Listed are our attending group member talks!... Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Dan Foley on successfully defending his thesis on October 30th, 2023! Congratulations, Dan! We can’t wait to see what you do next.... Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Caleb Andrews on successfully defending his thesis on August 10th, 2023! His doctoral project, entitled “Microstructure Optimization and Melt Pool Control in Powder Bed Fusion for the Development of Architected Lattice Materials”, demonstrates the ability to use advanced technology to control microstructures dynamically through process control. Check... Read More

Collaborators Jean-Phillipe Couzinie, Loic Perriere, and Hugo Jean visited JHU from the Institute of Chemistry and Materials at the University of Paris-Est and CNRS through the ONR Global program. It was great to see our friends again this summer!... Read More

PNNL researchers edited and contributed to special issue focused on materials in extreme environments   Developing materials that can withstand extreme environments, like space or nuclear reactors, remains a challenge for materials science. Work from researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was featured in a new special issue of MRS Bulletin. The issue... Read More

In its commitment to nurturing the already burgeoning growth of student-led data-intensive research at Johns Hopkins, The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) has the privilege of providing financial support for exemplary students to complete 10-weeks of summer research through our Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) initiative. Undergraduate students have the... Read More

Graduate student Emily Hopkins was awarded the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Research Program (SCGSR) Award for the 2022 Solicitation 1 cycle. Emily will conduct her SCGSR research at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM under the guidance of Dr. Khalid Hattar. Emily is a third-year doctoral... Read More

As in previous years, JHU/HEMI is a host site for the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) high school apprenticeships (formally called REAP).  This apprenticeship is focused on providing Maryland high school students from underserved/underrepresented minorities in STEM an opportunity to participate in a research project at a university.  DCG participated... Read More

Exciting new microscopy collaboration/development: our group, Institut de Biologie Structural (https://www.ibs.fr/ ), and nanoMEGAS SPRL (https://nanomegas.com ) at intersection of biology/physics/materials science! Last Friday Dr. Stavros Nicolopoulos (CEO, NanoMEGAS) together with Dr. Winnie Ling (IBS Grenoble, France) and Dan Foley (Johns Hopkins Univ, USA) working on the next discovery for protein crystallography... Read More

DCG students traveled to the Institute of Chemistry and Materials at the University of Paris-Est through the ONR Global program for training on refractory alloy growth and development through induction and arc melting. (Pictured from left to right, David Beaudry, PI Mitra Taheri, and Annie Barnett.)... Read More

Using cutting edge techniques for materials discovery and machine learning, Mitra Taheri is leading a multi-institution team in an effort to expedite the development of materials for the U.S. Navy. Read the article on Johns Hopkins HUB: https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/03/24/mitra-taheri-materials-characterization-processing-facility/... Read More

Graduate student David Beaudry is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and will receive annual stipends as well as opportunities for international research and professional development. David is a first-year doctoral student from Fort Walton Beach, Florida studying under Professor Mitra Taheri. He graduated from the University of Florida with... Read More

Engineer Mitra Taheri and team publish roadmap to harness data science and artificial intelligence for electron microscopy, unlocking tool’s full power Read the article on Johns Hopkins HUB: https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/03/02/electron-microscopy-artificial-intelligence-data-science/ Check out the journal article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-00833-z... Read More

Mitra Taheri, the newest professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Director of the MCP has been recognized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. With the MURI Award, Mitra will lead a team from JHU, Northwestern, UVA, and Arizona State... Read More