Category Archives: Notables
Awards, service, recognition, widely-circulated news
Impact Factor for SI
Surface Innovations journal received its first Impact Factor: 1.438. Although this number is not great yet, it will increase next year to about 2, as per our early estimate, and hopefully will continue to increase to much higher number in … Continue reading
Making News
We made news in Tech Today and in the local newspaper on: How does our zinc stent invention turn into commercially available—and potentially lifesaving—product? Read more at Tech Today, by Jenn Donovan. Since reading the Daily Mining Gazette requires a … Continue reading
M-TRAC Grant
Our team received a grant from the M-TRAC (Michigan Translational and Commercialization) program on Prototyping Biodegradable Zn-Based Stents of Enhanced Mechanical Properties. The goal of this project is to manufacture Zn-based stents with improved mechanical properties as compared to what … Continue reading
Top Citations in SI
Our paper entitled “Guidelines to measurements of reproducible contact angles using a sessile-drop technique” remains the top cited paper among all contributions published in the Surface Innovations journal. Most likely, it will remain at this lead for quite some time. … Continue reading
MSGC Undergraduate Research Award
Congratulations to Catherine for winning the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Fellowship. She will conduct a research on Recrystallization and Coarsening of Hot-Extruded Bioabsorbable Binary Zn Alloys in the 2016/2017 academic year.
Teaching Abroad
Prof. Drelich’s proposal on teaching a short course in India has been accepted by the Indian Government. Together with Prof. N.V. Ravikumar, he will teach a one-week course on Contact Angles: Measurements, Interpretation and Modern Applications at the Indian Institute … Continue reading
2016 TMS Meeting
The TMS annual meeting in Nashville this year was very productive. First, Dr. Bowen and Prof. Drelich served as co-organizers to a mini-symposium entitled Magnesium-based Bioabsorbable Implants that was part of 2016 Magnesium Technology conference. Both of them represented the … Continue reading
New Duties at TMS
Prof. Drelich was nominated and invited to the TMS Content Development and Dissemination Committee that is part of the TMS Administrative Board committees. The purpose of the Content Development and Dissemination Committee is to collaboratively guide and support TMS initiatives … Continue reading
High-School Follower Awarded
Nina Ferenc is a freshman student attending Westfield High School in Virginia. At the beginning of 2016, she came up with a science fair project that was designed based on our research on biodegradable zinc stents. She was intrigued by … Continue reading
Editorial Board Member
Prof. Drelich has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board of the Eureka: Physics & Engineering journal. This is a new open-access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to science and engineering.
