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IMS grad student Jake Benzing takes home physical sciences award from conference

Sep. 9, 2015—A Vanderbilt PhD student in interdisciplinary materials science took home a first-place poster award at August’s Microscopy & Microanalysis conference, held last month in Portland, Oregon. Jake Benzing, whose adviser is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering James Wittig, presented a research poster and abstract titled “Fe-25Mn-3Al-3Si TWIP-TRIP Steel Deformed at High Strain Rates” and...

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Carter, Hachtel and Slack win for best Oral & Poster Presentation at Annual Conference

Jun. 23, 2015—Three VINSE graduate students received awards at the annual TN-SCORE conference held in Nashville, TN on June 18-19, 2015. Rachel Carter and Jordan Hachtel tied for first place for best oral presentation. Rachel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate student working under the direction of Professor Cary Pint, her talk was “Core/Shell Ni/Ni(OH)2 Foam for a...

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