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May 1, 2008: Manish K. Tiwari wins prestigious UIC award for 2008-09. The Dean's Scholar Award is presented by the Dean of the Graduate College in recognition of a student's scholarly achievement. It is intended to provide the most distinguished, advanced-level graduate students with a period of time dedicated solely to the completion of their programs.

Congratulations Manish!

June 2008: Dr. Yarin elected Fellow of the Center of Smart Interfaces of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

June 2008: Dr. Yarin delivers graduate course on "Near-wall Interfacial Transport Phenomena" at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

June 2008: Dr. Yarin is invited speaker at "Optische Messtechniken fuer die Charakterisierung von Transportprozessen an Grenzflachen" in Hirshegg-Kleinwalsertal, Austria.

John Szczech

August 15, 2008: Our paper “Fine-Line Conductor Manufacturing Using Advanced Drop-On-Demand PZT Printing Technology,” J. B. Szczech, C. M. Megaridis, D. R. Gamota and J. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing 25, 26-33 (2002) has been selected by the Illinois Engineering Council as one of its four 2008 Engineering Achievement Award winners. John Szczech and Jie Zhang both received their PhD in the MNFTL and are presently with Motorola Labs.

Jie Zhang

September 2008: Dr. Yarin delivers invited talk at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

November 2008: Our article I.S. Bayer, M.K. Tiwari and C.M. Megaridis, "Biocompatible poly(vinylidene fluoride)/cyanoacrylate composite coatings with tunable hydrophobicity and bonding strength," Applied Physics Letters 93, 173902, 2008 received unsolicited coverage by the November 1, 2008 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research

January 2009: Our article S. Sinha Ray, P. Chando, A.L. Yarin, "Enhanced release of liquid from carbon nanotubes due to entrainment by air layer," Nanotechnology 20, 095711, 2009 received unsolicited coverage on Feb. 11, 2009 by NanoTechWeb - PDF Link

March 2009: Dr. Yarin is invited speaker at the International Workshop "Electrostatic Atomization of Electrically Insulating Liquids: Principles and Applications" in Southampton, UK.

May 2009: Dr. Yarin delivers invited talk at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

May 2009: Dr. Yarin conducts two-day Workshop on "Free Liquid Jets and Threads and Rheology" at Hewlett-Packard-Indigo in Rehovot, Israel.

July 16, 2009: Manish K. Tiwari successfully defends PhD dissertation titled "Functional Nanocomposites and Dispersions: Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Evaluation." This August, Manish will be moving to Switzerland where he will join Prof. Poulikakos' group at
ETH-Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations Manish!

July 27-29, 2009: Dr. Yarin is keynote speaker at the Fourth International Meeting on Nanotechnology 2009 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

July 2009: Dr. Yarin delivers invited talk at the Phillips University of Marburg, Germany.

July 2009: Dr. Megaridis co-organizes Minisymposium titled "Fluid Dynamics at Super-Repellent Surfaces" at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society (APS). For more details, click here

September 2009: Dr. Yarin will give invited talk at Eindhoven University,Holland.

March 2010: Dr. Yarin and Dr. Hardt offer short course titled "Outline of Micro and Nanofluidics" at the Center of Smart Interfaces in the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.