Drexel Materials Students Receive Awards at ASM International Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter Poster Contest and Meeting

ASM 2016 Spring Poster Winners
Poster winners (l to r): Mallory Clites, Bryan Byles, Katie Van Aken

Drexel Materials students made a clean sweep of poster and scholarship awards at the ASM International Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter’s 15th annual C.F. "Chuck" Burns Graduate Student Poster Contest on April 21, 2016.

The PhD student poster contest winners, who also gave oral presentations on their work, are:

1st Place ($500):  Mallory Clites (advisor:  Ekaterina Pomerantseva)

2nd Place ($300):  Bryan Byles (advisor:  Ekaterina Pomerantseva)

3rd Place ($200):  Katie Van Aken (advisor:  Yury Gogotsi)

ASM 2016 Spring Scholarship Winners
L to R: Pelin Lemons of ASM's Liberty Bell Chapter with scholarship winners Christine Palmer, Nicholas Pescatore, and Ziyin Huang

Additionally, three Drexel Materials undergraduate students, out of a pool of 11 applicants, were awarded $1,500 scholarships at the event:

A.W. (Doc) Grosvenor Scholarship:  BS student Christine Palmer

Anthony Gallacio Scholarship:  BS/MS student Ziyin Huang (advisor:  Christopher Li)

John J. De Luccia Scholarship:  BS/MS student Nicholas Pescatore (advisor:  Yury Gogotsi)


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