Past Graduate Student Award Winners

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2013 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Sriharsha Aradhya, Columbia University (Y6.05) 
  • Wei Bao, University of California, Berkeley (Y3.05) 
  • Matthew McDowell, Stanford University (G3.01) 
  • Benjamin Chee Keong Tee, Stanford University (TT1.02) 
  • William Woodford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (G1.05) 
  • Ziliang Ye, University of California, Berkeley (II7.09) 
  • Jingqing Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P12.03)

Silver Awards 

  • Ryan Comes, University of Virginia (XX8.14) 
  • Juanjuan Du, University of California, Los Angeles (OO3.09) 
  • Xiaofeng Feng, University of California, Berkeley (P5.62) 
  • Wei Gao, University of California, San Diego (LL4.10) 
  • Le He, University of California, Riverside (L8.07)
  • Kedar Hippalgaonkar, University of California, Berkeley (V3.05)
  • Jongwoo Lim, University of California, Berkeley (H1.05)
  • Lito de la Rama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BBB4.03)
  • Aaron Rathmell, Duke University (T4.01)
  • Runzhe Tao, University of Illinois at Chicago (AAA8.05)
  • Woon Teck Yap, Northwestern University (OO3.02)
  • You Zhou, Harvard University (XX4.02)
  • Guang Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology (W2.06) 

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 2012 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Seung Sae Hong, Stanford University
  • Katharine Jensen, Harvard University
  • Seunghyun Lee, University of Michigan
  • Jiayan Luo, Northwestern University
  • Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Princeton University
  • Xingchen Ye, University of Pennsylvania
  • Yingchao Yu, Cornell University

Silver Awards 

  • Eric Appel, University of Cambridge
  • Jennifer Choy, Harvard University
  • Jian Cui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Karthik Jambunathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jimmy John, Cornell University
  • Kristy Jost, Drexel University
  • Minu Kim, The University of Tokyo
  • Oh Seok Kwon, Seoul National University
  • Yuerui Lu, Cornell University
  • Timothy Miller, Stanford University
  • Changhyun Pang, Seoul National University
  • Riju Singhal, Drexel University
  • John Thomas, University of Michigan
  • Andrew Thron, University of California at Davis
  • Wenzhuo Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Kaylie Young, Northwestern University
  • Xueyi Zhang, University of Minnesota

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2012 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Kara Evanoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Sanghan Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Gaurav Giri, Stanford University
  • Tevis Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jason Kawasaki, University of California, Santa Barbra
  • Nichole Miller, Stanford University
  • Alia Schoen, Stanford University
  • Emily Warren, California Institute of Technology

Silver Awards 

  • Zheng Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Zi Chen, Princeton University
  • Diego Gomez-Gualdron, Texas A&M University
  • Zhenda Lu, University of California, Riverside
  • Rutvik J. Mehta, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Nour Nijem, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Seung Soo Oh, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Andreina Parisi-Amon, Stanford University
  • Junsuk Rho, University of California, Berkeley
  • Afsoon Soudi, Washington State University
  • Magdalena Swierczewska, Stony Brook University
  • Neil Treat, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • David Tsivion, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Nan Yi, Tufts University
  • Qiao Zhang, University of California, Riverside 

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2011 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Jiamian Hu, Tsinghua University/Pennsylvania State University
  • Shu Hu, Stanford University
  • Matthew Jones, Northwestern University
  • Sung Kang, Harvard University
  • Robert Macfarlane, Northwestern University
  • Luisa Whittaker, State University of New York at Buffalo

Silver Awards 

  • Muge Acik, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Mehmet Baykara, Yale University
  • Laura Dickinson, Johns Hopkins University
  • Akhilesh Gaharwar, Purdue University
  • Kian Kerman, Harvard University
  • Illan Kramer, University of Toronto
  • Xiaoyan Li, Brown University
  • Rameshwori Loukrakpam, State University of New York at Binghamton
  • Amy Marconnet, Stanford University
  • Hassan Masoud, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Elad Mentovich, Tel Aviv University
  • Pratap Rao, Stanford University
  • Jian Shi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Charles Sing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jonathan Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jin Suntivich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hailiang Wang, Stanford University
  • Chong Xie, Stanford University
  • Sa Zhou, Boston College

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2011 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Edward Barnard, Stanford University
  • Charina Choi, University of California, Berkeley
  • Vivian Ferry, California Institute of Technology
  • Nathaniel Huebsch, Harvard University
  • June Hyuk Lee, Pennsylvania State University
  • SungWoo Nam, Harvard University
  • Imogen Pryce, California Institute of Technology
  • Jonathan Rivnay, Stanford University
  • Volker Sorger, University of California, Berkeley

Silver Awards


  • Victor Acosta, University of California, Berkeley
  • Joel Grim, Wake Forest University
  • Xi He, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • Teng He, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
  • Hyungsoon Im, University of Minnesota
  • Yijin Kang, University of Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Kempa, Harvard University
  • Dong Rip Kim, Stanford University
  • Jaemyung Kim, Northwestern University
  • Justin Koepsel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Ingrid Koslow, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Sung Keun Lim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Francisco Lopez, Northwestern University
  • Vismadeb Mazumder, Brown University
  • Laura Povlich, University of Michigan
  • Desalegne Teweldebrhan, University of California, Riverside
  • Takeaki Yajima, The University of Tokyo
  • Qiao Zhang, University of California, Riverside
  • Wu Zhou, Lehigh University 

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2010 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Benjamin Almquist, Stanford University
    Symposium QQ  
  • Andrew Bonifas, The Ohio State University
    Symposium G  
  • Xiaoting Jia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Symposium C 
  • Stephen Morin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Symposium W  
  • Daniel Shoemaker, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Symposium AA  
  • Lieven Verslegers, Stanford University
    Symposium M  
  • Nhon Vo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Symposium T  
  • Lei Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Symposium GG 

Silver Awards 

  • Thomas Babinec, Harvard University
    Symposium A  
  • Seung Hyub Baek, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Symposium K  
  • Jingwei Bai, University of California, Los Angeles
    Symposium C  
  • Edward Barry, Brandeis University
    Symposium Z  
  • Noemie Chocat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Symposium HH 
  • Lei Lang, Brown University
    Symposium QQ  
  • James Neilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Symposium EE  
  • Daniel Recht, Harvard University
    Symposium AA 
  • Marco Righettoni, ETH Zurich
    Symposium PP  
  • Michel Risser, INSA Strasbourg
    Symposium FF  
  • Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Symposium P 
  • Guang Sheng, The Pennsylvania State University
    Symposium K  
  • Ravi Shankar Sundarum, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
    Symposium B 
  • John Tumbleston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Symposium Y  
  • Wenzhuo Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Symposium S  
  • Pu Yu, University of California, Berkeley
    Symposium K 

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2010 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards  

  • Vincent Holmberg, University of Texas, Austin,
    Symposium P 
  • Bharat Jalan, University of California, Santa Barbara 
    Symposium N  
  • Dominic Lencer, RWTH Aachen University
    Symposium H  
  • Morgan Putnam, California Institute of Technolopgy
    Symposium P 
  • James Rondinelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Symposium M 
  • Jason Valentine, University of California, Berkeley
    Symposium D 
  • Jia Zhu, Stanford University
    Symposium P 

Silver Awards 

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2009 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Mary M. Caruso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Harvard University
  • Cole A. DeForest, University of Colorado
  • Dae-Hyeong Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Prashant Nagpal, University of Minnesota

Silver Awards 

  • Vivekananda P. Adiga, University of Pennsylvania
  • Carlee E. Ashley, University of New Mexico
  • Pierre-Luc T. Boudreault, Université Laval
  • Linyou Cao, Stanford University
  • Daniel Heller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michael D. Kelzenberg, California Institute of Technology
  • Xin Li, Pennsylvania State University
  • Xiaoying Liu, Harvard University
  • Yang Liu, Purdue University
  • Charbel Madi, Harvard University
  • Dennis Meier, Universität Bonn
  • Alfonso Reina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, Case Western Reserve University
  • Cary A. Supalo, Pennsylvania State University
  • Sheng Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Yue Bing Zheng, Pennsylvania State University

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2009 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Ayse Asatekin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Symposium Q 
  • Matthew J. Bierman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Symposium AA 
  • Erik C. Garnett, University of California, Berkeley
    Symposium AA 
  • Magnus P. Jonsson, Chalmers University of Technology
    Symposium EE 
  • Bishnu P. Khanal, Rice University
    Symposium Y 

Silver Awards 

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2008 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2008 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2007 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2007 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2006 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Xing Chen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Paul H. Erhart, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Daeyeon Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Peter J. Pauzauskie, University of California, Berkeley
  • Fabien Sorin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ming Tang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jie Xiang, Harvard University

Silver Awards 

  • Mikel E. Barry, University of California, Berkeley
  • Arief S. Budiman, Stanford University
  • Ludovico Cademartiri, University of Toronto
  • Jennifer I.-L. Chen, University of Toronto
  • Samrat Choudhury, The Pennsylvania State University
  • David C. Coffey, University of Washington
  • Friederike Fleischhaker, University of Toronto
  • Aaron D. Franklin, Purdue University
  • Aihua Fu, University of California, Berkeley
  • Beth S. Guiton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jinsong Huang, University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Yi Li, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Zixiao Pan, Northwestern University
  • Boaz Pokroy, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Shivaraman Ramachandran, North Carolina State University
  • Jennifer J. Riesz, University of Queensland
  • Kuangshin Tai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Soong Ho Um, Cornell University
  • Hui Wang, Rice University
  • Scott C. Warren, Cornell University
  • Kris C. Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yangang A. Xi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Jing Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

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2006 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2005 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

Silver Awards 

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2005 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Daniel Abou-Ras, ETH Zürich
  • Joseph F. AuBuchon, University of California-San Diego
  • Helen K. Baca, University of New Mexico
  • Daniel S. Gianola, Johns Hopkins University
  • Yongqing Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Juan C. Idrobo, University of California-Davis
  • Raghuveer S. Makala, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Ammar M. Nayfeh, Stanford University
  • Robert P. Sebra, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Benjamin J. Wiley, University of Washington
  • Yue Wu, Harvard University
  • Chanda R. Yonzon, Northwestern University

Silver Awards 

  • Igor M. P. Aarts, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Cinzia Casiraghi, Cambridge University
  • Sung Yeun Choi, University of Toronto
  • Bentao Cui, University of Minnesota
  • Robin S. Friedman, Harvard University
  • Patric Gruber, Universität Stuttgart
  • Michael J. Hetzer, The Ohio State University
  • R. Joseph Kline, Stanford University
  • Qiming Li, University of New Mexico
  • Erik J. Menke, University of California-Irvine
  • Krishanu Saha, University of California-Berkeley
  • Zhiwei (Steven) Shan, University of Pittsburgh
  • Oren Tal, Tel Aviv University
  • Feng Tao, Princeton University
  • Xiaowei Teng, University of Rochester
  • Mayur S. Valipa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Shabnam Virji, University of California-Los Angeles
  • Sehoon Yoo, The Ohio State University
  • Paul Zaslansky, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Jie Zheng, Georgia Institute of Technology  

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2004 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Andrew Armstrong, The Ohio State University
  • Teresa M. Barnes, Colorado School of Mines
  • Delphine Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Julia R. Greer, Stanford University
  • Jifeng Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stefano Piscanec, Cambridge University
  • Ingrid A. Rousseau, University of Connecticut
  • Donghai Wang, Tulane University
  • Tao Xu, Clemson University

Silver Awards 

  • Zuruzi Abu Samah, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Anders Ballestad, University of British Columbia
  • Ion Bita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brian H. Clare, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Matthew R. Dreher, Duke University
  • Trevor Hoskins, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Matthew H. Kane, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Evgenia M. Kim, Moscow State University
  • Svetlana M. Mitrovski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Doinita Neiner, University of New Orleans
  • Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Brown University
  • Jefferson E. Rose, University of California-Los Angeles
  • Daniel J. Solis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yong Xiang, Harvard University
  • David Guangjun Xu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jingsi Yang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Homan Yuen, Stanford University
  • Jian Zhang, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Wenguang Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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2004 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Markus J. Buehler, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research
  • Adamos Dalis, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Manish Deopura, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ali Javey, Stanford University
  • Kenji Nomura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Rajaram A. Pai, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Ragesh Puthenkovilakam, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Laura Vogelaar, University of Twente
  • Sascha Welz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Yuanjia Zhang, Cornell University

Silver Awards 

  • Maria Aboy, University of Valladolid
  • Julie Casperson, California Institute of Technology
  • Hyo Sik Chang, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology
  • Philip Costanzo, University of California, Davis
  • Yusuke Daiko, Nagoya Institute of Technology
  • Harald Jacobsen, Fraunhofer ISIT
  • Hyoungsub Kim, Stanford University
  • Yi Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Byron McCaughey, Tulane University
  • Megan Pattison, Purdue University
  • Ulrich Rant, Technical University Munich
  • Eli Rothenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Hannah Storrie, Northwestern University
  • Ming Su, Northwestern University
  • Mitra Taheri, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Sander F. Wuister, Utrecht University
  • Wensha Yang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Benjamin B. Yellen, Drexel University
  • Rachel Yotter, University of Washington
  • James M. Zahler, California Institute of Technology
  • Nanfeng Zheng, University of California, Riverside
  • Zhaohui Zhong, Harvard University  

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2003 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Ilke Arslan, University of California, Davis
  • Daniel B. Aubertine, Stanford University
  • Sarah M. Estrada, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Olaf Gelhausen, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Gregory M. Gratson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Egon Gross, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Amanda J. Haes, Northwestern University
  • Francesca Iacopi, IMEC, Belgium
  • Rongchao Jin, Northwestern University
  • Garry R. Maskaly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Suniti Moudgil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David M. Pustai, University of Delaware
  • Congjun Wang, University of Chicago
  • Jessica Winter, University of Texas, Austin
  • Haimei Zheng, University of Maryland

Silver Awards 

  • Alexander B. Artyukhin, University of California, Davis
  • Tommaso Baldacchini, Boston College
  • Maria M. F. Cortalezzi, Rice University
  • Manuel Garcia-Leiner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Joshua Goldberger, University of California, Berkeley
  • Olivier Guise, University of Pittsburgh
  • James Zachary Hilt, University of Texas, Austin
  • Ho Won Jang, Pohang University of Science & Technology
  • Miri Kazes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Evgenia Kim, Moscow State University
  • Sungjee Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Weidong Li, University of Delaware
  • Shirley Ying Meng, Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance
  • Cynthia A. Mitchell, University of Houston
  • Aditi S. Risbud, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Brandon L. Seal, Arizona State University
  • Aleksandar Spasic, Boston College
  • Thomas E. Vandervelde, University of Virginia
  • Junling Wang, University of Maryland
  • Ting Xu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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2003 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Jason B. Baxter, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Seth Coe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cindi L. Dennis, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Minjoo L. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Liang-shi Li, University of California-Berkeley
  • Sen Liu, University of Washington
  • Iris Visoly-Fisher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Erich C. Walter, University of California-Irvine

Silver Awards 

  • Ruxandra Costescu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Ana Filipa Nogueira Fixe, INESC-MN, Portugal
  • Chee Lip Gan, Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore
  • Eric P. Guyer, Stanford University
  • Terri L. Haskins, University of Rochester
  • Robin L. Hayes, University of California-Los Angeles
  • Jiaxing Huang, University of California-Los Angeles
  • James F. Hulvat, Northwestern University
  • Matthew Law, University of California-Berkeley
  • Ki-Bum Lee, Northwestern University
  • Tae-Hee Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Olivier Noel, Université Haute Alsace, France
  • Prita Pant, Cornell University
  • Alexandra E. Porter, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Pavle Radovanovic, University of Washington
  • Brandon Seal, Arizona State University
  • Yulong Shen, Cornell University
  • Eli D. Sone, Northwestern University 

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2002 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards 

  • Sarbajit Banerjee, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Jodie E. Bradby, Australian National University
  • Eric N. Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • James P. Buban, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Rainer J. Hebert, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Seung-Wuk Lee, University of Texas, Austin
  • Yu-Ming Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mathew M. Maye, State University of New York, Binghamton
  • Rahul Panat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Gianni Taraschi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Silver Awards 

  • Ariya Akthakul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Marcie R. Black, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Albina Y. Borisevich, University of Pennsylvania
  • Kai-Chieh Chang, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dean M. DeLongchamp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zachary Donhauser, Pennsylvania State University
  • Jennifer L. Gray, University of Virginia
  • Maxim B. Kelman, Stanford University
  • Marko Loncar, California Institute of Technology
  • Yu Lu, University of Washington
  • Anupama Mallikarjunan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Wangyang Ni, Michigan State University
  • Ahmet S. Ozcan, Boston University
  • Yulia S. Petronyuk, Institute of Biochemical Physics-RAS
  • Ricardo Ruiz, Vanderbilt University
  • Erik L. Waldron, Boston University
  • Yinmin Wang, Johns Hopkins University
  • Guangwen Zhou, University of Pittsburgh

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2002 MRS Spring Meeting

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Silver Awards 

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