IMI-NFG awards Student Int'l Conference Travel Scholarships to Five US Students

The International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass, (IMI-NFG) awarded the International Student Conference Travel Scholarships to five students from various US universities. The recipients are Deassy Novita and Jin Mingji of University if Cincinnati , Amanda Simens and Jamie Neilson of Lehigh University and Bradley Bowden of Rutgers University. All of them attended the 15 th International Symposium on Non-Oxide and Optical Glasses (ISNOG) in Bangalore , India on April 10-14, 2006. Each of them presented a poster of their research work. The titles are as follows: D. Novita, “Intermediate Phase of AgPO3/AgI Glasses”; J. Mingji, “Giant photocontraction & self-organization effects in amorphous chalcogenide thin films”; J. Neilson, “ Fabrication of nano-gratings in arsenic sulphide films”; A. Simens , “Origin of Optical Losses in Ge-Se Containing Chalcogenide waveguides: EXAFS & SEM Study”; and B. Bowden , “Optical Properties of Ag-As-Sb-Se Glasses”.

IMI-NFG's International Student Conference Travel Scholarship is a new grant opportunity open to undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers at US universities. Its goal is to help young scientists develop into future leaders of research on glass and other materials. The key criterion for scholarship award is how well the paper contributes to a new functionality in glass which the student will present in an international conference. For more information and application, please go to Opportunities tab in this page.