August Evrard receives Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize
2019-04-26 August Evrard was honored with the 11th annual Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize for his project, Problem Roulette: A Stress-free Practice Zone for Student Learning.
Recent News
Justin Kasper addresses Senate committee on solar threat to power grid
2019-02-27 Prof. Justin Kasper testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and discussed how best to protect the power grid from space weather.
Brandon Russell receives Rackham International Student Fellowship
2019-02-13 Brandon Russell (ECE) was awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship for his research on magnetic fields in high-energy plasmas, which could help advance the development of clean energy and our understanding of energetic astrophysical phenomena.
Alec Gallimore inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
2019-02-07 Prof. Alec Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, has been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for advanced spacecraft electric propulsion, especially Hall thruster technology.
Plasma 2020 call for white papers
2018-12-03
The US National Academies has recently started the Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science - Plasma 2020. The Plasma 2020 committee invites the US and international plasma science and technology communities to submit white papers addressing past accomplishments, future science challenges, opportunities to provide societal benefit, needed interdisciplinary collaborations and means to enhance careers in the fields of plasma science and technology. Please submit white papers by March 8, 2019.
First Women in MIPSE luncheon
2018-11-14 Women in MIPSE luncheons were recently inaugurated to bring U-M women students and post-doctoral fellows in plasmas fields together, providing a community to share experiences, insights, and resources to support each other. The first lunch, held November 14, 2018, was organized by Janis Lai (NERS). The honorary guest, Dr. Svetlana Starikovskaia of Laboratory of Plasma Physics, CNRS, France, shared her research and teaching experiences with six Women in MIPSE members.
The HERCULES laser receives $1 million
2018-11-07 U-M will receive $1 million through the LaserNetUS initiative for providing time on the HERCULES laser, the reigning world champion for laser intensity at 20 sextillion (2x1022) watts per centimeter squared.
Amanda Lietz wins Towner Prize
2018-10-31 Amanda Lietz (NERS) is a winner of Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research
Congratulations to MAISE team on the first successful propulsion demonstration!
2018-09-21 The Michigan Advanced In-Space propulsion Engineering (MAISE) team conducted their first electric propulsion demostration as part of the Technology Takeover on Ingalls Mall.
Alec Thomas elected Fellow of APS
2018-09-22 Alec Thomas has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society "for contributions to the experimental and theoretical understanding of short pulse high intensity laser plasma interactions and in particular for the development of laser wakefield accelerators and the generation of x-rays from these beams."
From EU Research and Innovation Commission: Frontier research on plasma technologies for societal benefit
2018-07-04 Plasma is the ‘hidden champion’ of industrial innovation – Prof. Christian Oehr
Volker Sick receives president's international education award
2018-04-26 Volker Sick was presented with the 2018 President’s Award for Distinguished Service in International Education. The purpose of this award is to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary efforts of faculty and staff who keep U-M on the leading edge of international education for the students.
MIPSE welcomes a new cohort of Fellows
2018-04-25 Seven graduate students have been named MIPSE Fellows 2018-2019: Austin Brenner and Zachariah Brown (Aerospace Engineering, U-M); Kenneth Chung (Civil Engineering, U-M); Forrest Glines (Astronomy/Computer Science and Engineering, MSU); Amina Hussein (Applied Physics, U-M); Agnit Mukhopadhyay and Yeimy Rivera (Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, U-M).
Stephanie Miller receives DOE NNSA Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship
2018-04-17 Stephanie Miller (NERS) has been selected to receive the Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration. For her LRGF research, Stephanie will spend two 12-week residencies at Sandia National Labs, working with the pulsed-power sciences and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) groups. She will be working to transfer the technology and diagnostic techniques that she is developing here at U-M to the 30-MA Z facility at Sandia.
Yao Kovach wins Eye on Research photo contest
2018-04-13 Yao E. Kovach (NERS) is a winner of Eye on Research, a graduate student photo contest aimed at capturing the excitement, range, color and creativity of research. In her plasma picture, the self-organization pattern shows a perfectly symmetrical spoke structure with center convergence on the anode surface of sodium chloride solution at 80mA. Above the plasma spokes, a golden yellow colored prominent halo that surrounds the white colored main plasma column along with 8 millimeter gap in the air. Below the plasma spokes, the image shows a salt water reflection of the halo with helium plasma emitted from the 500 micrometer center of a hollow shaped cathode. From the spectroscopic analysis, we determined the golden yellow colored of the halo is due to the sodium glow from the vapor of the liquid. These blue colored plasma spokes have a size of around 25 micrometer and 85 micrometer in width and length respectively.
Louise Willingale receives NSF CAREER award
2018-03-06 Louise Willingale received an NSF CAREER award for her research project “Relativistic Electron Driven Magnetic Reconnection." Read more about Louise's research in the EECS News.
Ryan McBride receives the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
2018-02-21 The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced awards of $16 million through its 2018 Young Investigator Program (YIP). The awards were made to young scientists whose research holds strong promise across a wide range of naval-relevant science and technology areas. Ryan McBride's winning project title is "High-Power Microwave Generation by Compact Linear Transformer Driver Technology."