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Current University Chapters

MRS University Chapters are a vital part of the Materials Research Society, providing discussion between students and faculty and promoting student interest in materials science. Following is a roster of active Chapters. Representatives of these Chapters are encouraged to use this list to compare notes with each other on recent activities and to brainstorm on new projects and issues of common concern. Anyone interested in starting a new chapter is also welcome to contact these representatives, visit the MRS Web site at www.mrs.org, or contact Lorri A. Smiley, Professional Services and Awards Coordinator, at smiley@mrs.org. 

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  • Alabama A&M University

Malcom Abunaemeh
President
Tel: 256-348-1480
malcom@cim.aamu.edu

Daryush Ila
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 256-372-8703
ila@aamuri.aamu.edu

  • Alfred University

Keith J. DeCarlo
President
Tel: 607-871-2410 
kjd2@alfred.edu

Doreen Edwards
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 607-871-2284
dedwards@alfred.edu  

  • Binghamton University

Megan Roppolo
President
Tel: 607-341-6385
mroppolo@gmail.com

M. Stanley Whittingham
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 607-777-4623
stanwhit@binghamton.edu  

  • Boise State University

Pat Andersen
President
Tel: 208-426-5788 
andersenpj@gmail.com

Megan Frary
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 208-426-1061
meganfrary@boisestate.edu  

Amy Moll
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 208-426-5719
amoll@boisestate.edu  

  • Bowling Green State University/ University of Toledo

Victor Plotnikov
President
Tel: 419-530-4908
vplotni@physics.utoledo.edu  

Robert Boughton
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 419-372-7832
boughton@bgnet.bgsu.edu  

Alvin D. Compaan
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 419-530-4906
adc@physics.utoledo.edu  

  • California Institute of Technology

Nicholas Stadie
President
Tel: 626-395-3572 
nstadie@caltech.edu

Sossina Haile
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 626-395-2958
smhaile@caltech.edu

Harry Atwater
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 626-395-2197
haa@its.caltech.edu     

  • California Polytechnic State University

Thomas Logue
President
tlogue@calpoly.edu

Katherine C. Chen
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 805-756-6634
kcchen@calpoly.edu     

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Alysha Grenko
President
Tel: 412-268-3135
agrenko@andrew.cmu.edu 

Lisa M. Porter
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 412-268-4047
lporter@andrew.cmu.edu  

Katayun Barmak
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 412-268-4380
katayun@andrew.cmu.edu  

  • Clemson University

Laura Burka
President
Tel: 828-553-4143
lburka@clemson.edu  

Marian (Molly) Kennedy
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 864-656-5349 
mskenne@clemson.edu  

O. Thompson Mefford
Faculty Advisor
mefford@exchange.clemson.edu

Terry M. Tritt
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 864-656-5319
ttritt@clemson.edu 

  • Columbia University

Austin Akey
President
Tel: 212-854-6666
aa2563@columbia.edu

Siu-Wai Chan
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 212-854-8519
sc174@columbia.edu 

Irving P. Herman
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 212-854-4950
iph1@columbia.edu  

  • Cornell University

Christopher Sarra
Co-President
cws32@cornell.edu

Yasmin Besonia
Co-President 
yb33@cornell.edu  

Michael Thompson
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 607-255-4714
mot1@cornell.edu  

  • Drexel University

Riju Singhal
President 
Tel: 908-731-1787
rms332@drexel.edu

Yury Gogotsi
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 215-895-6446
gogotsi@drexel.edu

  • Franklin W. Olin College 

               Ananya Kejriwalan
                   President
             ananya.kejriwal@students.olin.edu

                 Johnathan Stolk
             Faculty Advisor
             stolk@olin.edu

                 Debbie Chachra
                 Faculty Advisor
                 debbie.chachra@olin.edu
        

                 Zhong Wang
                 Faculty Advisor
                 zhong.wang@mse.gatech.edu

  • Iowa State University

               Katherine Ament
                   President
             katlawler@gmail.com

                 Alex King
             Faculty Advisor
             alexking@ameslab.gov
  • Johns Hopkins University

Dan Grave
President
dag0207@jhu.edu 

Robert C. Cammarata
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 410-516-5462
rcc@jhu.edu  

Howard Katz
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 410-516-6141
hekatz@jhu.edu    

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Woodford
President
woodford@mit.edu

Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 617-253-6864
millie@mgm.mit.edu  

Linn W. Hobbs
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 617-253-6835
hobbs@mit.edu  

  • North Carolina State University

Aaron Johnston-Peck
President
acjohnst@ncsu.edu

Yara Yingling
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 919-513-2624
yara_yingling@ncsu.edu

Orlin Velev
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 919-513-4318
odvelev@ncsu.edu 

  • North Dakota State University

Rohit Khanna
President
Tel: 701-231-6491
rohit.khanna@ndsu.edu  

Dinesh R. Katti
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 701-231-7245
dinesh.katti@ndsu.edu  

Kalpana Katti
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 701-231-9504
kalpana.katti@ndsu.edu  

  • Northeastern University

Christiaan Richter
President
Tel: 617-820-6729
crichter@coe.neu.edu

Welville Nowak
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 617-373-2977
wnowak@coe.neu.edu  

Donald Heiman
Faculty Advisor 
Tel: 617-373-2912
d.heiman@neu.edu

  • Northwestern University

Andres Becerra-Toledo
President
Tel: 847-491-7809
andres@u.northwestern.edu  

Scott A. Barnett
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 847-491-2447
s-barnett@northwestern.edu  

R.P.H. Chang
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 847-491-3598
r-chang@northwestern.edu  

  • Pennsylvania State University

Chelsey Zacherl
President
Tel: 814-863-9957 
clz125@psu.edu   

Elizabeth C. Dickey
Faculty Advisor 
Tel: 814-863-9067
ecd10@psu.edu    

  • Princeton University

Sharon Goswami
Co-President
sgoswami@princeton.edu

Jason Kawasaki
Co-President
jkawasaki@gmail.com

Winston Soboyejo
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 609-258-5609
soboyejo@princeton.edu  

Craig Arnold
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 609-258-0250
cbarnold@princeton.edu  

  • Purdue University

Caitlin Burger
President
Tel: 765-494-9105 
cbburger@purdue.edu   

Timothy Sands
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 765-494-6105
tsands@purdue.edu  

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

Nitin Karla
President 
nxk9102@rit.edu

K.S.V. Santhanam
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 585-475-2920
ksssch@rit.edu  

Santosh K. Kurinec
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 585-475-2927
skkemc@rit.edu  

  • Rutgers University

Judith D. Sorge
President
Tel: 732-445-5672
jdsorge@eden.rutgers.edu  

Manish Chhowalla
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 732-445-5619
manish1@rci.rutgers.edu  

Adrian B. Mann
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 732-445-8421
abmann@rci.rutgers.edu  

Lisa C. Klein
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 732-445-2096
licklein@rci.rutgers.edu  

  • Stanford University

Chris Earhart
Co-President
cearhart@stanford.edu

Amit Desai
Co-President
aydesai@stanford.edu

Bruce M. Clemens
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 650-725-7455
clemens@soe.stanford.edu  

William Nix
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 650-725-2605
nix@stanford.edu 

  • University of Arkansas—Fayetteville

Emil Fred
President
Tel: 479-575-3008
mrs@uark.edu
  
Omar Manasreh
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 479-575-6053
manasreh@uark.edu  

Douglas Spearot
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 479-575-3040
dspearot@uark.edu  

  • University of California—Berkeley

Jodi Iwata
President
jiwata@berkeley.edu

Eugene Haller
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 510-486-5294
eehaller@lbl.gov

R. Ramesh
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 510-642-2347
rramesh@berkeley.edu  

  • University of California—Los Angeles

Linda Wong
President
Tel: 408-712-2090
lindawong31@ucla.edu

Jenn-Ming Yang
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 310-825-2758
jyang@seas.ucla.edu

  • University of California—Riverside  

Jennifer Reiber Kyle
President
jreib001@student.ucr.edu

Mihrimah Ozkan
Faculty Advisor
mihri@ee.ucr.edu  

Cengiz Sinan Ozkan
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 951-827-5016
cozkan@engr.ucr.edu  

  • University of California—San Diego

Karla Brammer
President 
kbrammer@ucsd.edu  

Vitali Nesterenko
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 858-822-0289
vnesterenko@ucsd.edu  

  • University of Central Florida 

Amit Kumar
President
Tel: 407-437-6007

Sudipta Seal
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 407-882-1466
sseal@mail.ucf.edu    

  • University of Colorado—Boulder

Dennis Gardner
President
Tel: 303-492-6530
dennis.gardner@colorado.edu

Noel Clark
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 303-492-6420
noel.clark@colorado.edu

Ivan Smalyukh
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 303-492-7277
ivan.smalyukh@colorado.edu

  • University of Connecticut

Jacquelynn K.M. Garofano
President
Tel: 860-486-4623
jacquelynn.garofano@gmail.com

Bryan Huey
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 860-486-4623
bhuey@ims.uconn.edu

C. Barry Carter
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 860-486-4020       
cbcarter@engr.uconn.edu

  • University of Delaware

Aysegul Altunbas
President
Tel: 302-831-3454 
aysegul@udel.edu 

Darrin Pochan
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 302-831-3569
pochan@udel.edu  

Kristi L. Kiick
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 302-831-0201
kiick@udel.edu  

  • University of Florida 

Anderson Prewitt
President
adp96@ufl.edu 

Kevin S. Jones
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 352-392-9872
kjones@eng.ufl.edu  

  • University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign

Kevin Arpin
President 
Tel:  203-804-9273
arpin1@illinois.edu

Jennifer A. Lewis
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 217-244-4973
jalewis@uiuc.edu  

Paul V. Braun
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 217-244-7293
pbraun@uiuc.edu    

  • University of Maryland—College Park

Richard Suchoski
President
Tel: 301-405-5301
rsuchosk@umd.edu

Lourdes Salamanca-Riba
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 301-405-5220
riba@umd.edu   

John Cumings
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 301-405-0789
cumings@umd.edu  

  • University of Michigan

Steven M. Yalisove
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 734-764-4346
smy@umich.edu  

Max Shtein 
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 734-764-4312
mshtein@umich.edu  

  • University of Minnesota

Wade Luhman
President
Tel: 612-624-1405
luhman@cems.umn.edu

Russell J. Holmes
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 612-624-9058
rholmes@umn.edu

  • University of Nevada—Reno

Cameron Howard
President
howard32@unr.nevada.edu

Jeffrey C. LaCombe
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 775-784-1797
lacomj@unr.edu  

  • University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

Tim Merkel
President
mtimothy@unc.edu  

Robert K. Pinschmidt, Jr.
Advisor Assistant
Tel: 919-843-6555
rkp@unc.edu

Joseph DeSimone
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 919-962-2166
desimone@unc.edu  

Edward T. Samulski
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 919-962-1561
et@unc.edu  

  • University of North Texas

Ali Shaito
President
Tel: 940-565-2831 
aas0092@unt.edu 

Nandika Anne D'Souza
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 940-565-2979
ndsouza@unt.edu  

  • University of Puerto Rico 

Tunde K. Adelakin
President
Tel: 787-464-7695 
katsly2002@yahoo.co.uk  

Lilia Olaya-Luengas
Chapter Contact
Tel: 787-232-8376
lilia_o1@hotmail.com  

Nayomi Plaza
Chapter Contact
Tel: 787-232-8376
nayomi.plaza@gmail.com

Oscar Marcelo Suarez
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 787-832-4040, x 2350
msuarez@ece.uprm.edu

Oswald N.C. Uwakweh
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 787-420-6522
uwakweh@ece.uprm.edu 

  • University of Rochester

Josh Winans
President
joshdwins@gmail.com

Philippe Fauchet
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 585-275-1487
fauchet@ece.rochester.edu  

Yongli Gao
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 585-275-8574
ygao@pas.rochester.edu  

  • University of Southern California

Ehsan Barjasteh
President
barjaste@usc.edu  

Edward Goo
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 213-740-4426
ekgoo@usc.edu  

Terence G. Langdon
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 213-740-0491
langdon@usc.edu  

  • University of Texas—Austin

B. Reeja Jayan
President
Tel: 512-484-5246
breeja@yahoo.com

Desiderio Kovar
Faculty Advisor
Tel:  (512) 471-6271
dkovar@mail.utexas.edu

University of Texas—El Paso

Jose Luis Cruz-Campa
President
Tel: 915-875-0444
joecampa@yahoo.com

Russell R. Chianelli
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 915-747-7555
chianell@utep.edu

Ramana Chintalapalle
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 915-747-8690
rvchintalapalle@utep.edu

  • University of Toledo/Bowling Green State University

Michelle Sestak
President
michelle.sestak@utoledo.edu

Robert Boughton
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 419-372-7832
boughton@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Alvin D. Compaan
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 419-530-4906
adc@physics.utoledo.edu  

  • University of Virginia

Tabitha Apple
President
Tel: 434-243-8171
tma4z@virginia.edu  

Jerrold Floro
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 434-243-1730
jaf9r@virginia.edu  

Dana M. Elzey
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 434-982-5796
dme2j@virginia.edu  

  • Vanderbilt/Fisk Universities

Jonathan Gosnell
President
Tel: 615-936-8514
jon.gosnell@vanderbilt.edu

Sharon Weiss
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 615-343-8311
sharon.weiss@vanderbilt.edu  

James Wittig
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 615-343-6028
j.wittig@vanderbilt.edu  

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Deepam Maurya
President
mauryad@vt.edu

Diana Farkas
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 540-231-4742
diana@vt.edu

Diane Folz 
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 540-231-3897
dfolz@mse.vt.edu 

  • Washington State University

Kumud Raj Poudel
President
Tel: 509-335-8675
kumud_poudel@wsu.edu

David Field
Faculty Advisor
Tel: 509-335-3524
field@mme.wsu.edu