Congratulations Pradipta Das on Your New Paper
Congratulations Pradipta on getting your paper accepted for publication! Social distancing celebration with team.
Roger Tipton’s article, How I navigated through my midlife PhD, has been accepted by Nature. The article will appear in the Careers section of Nature and will be published in the January 14 edition. Hopefully my experience can help others in their pursuit of a career in science no matter how old they are.
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Iyer! I have worked in the lab with Abhijeet for years and he is a great guy and we wish him the best in everything he does in the future.
PML Director Dr. Roger Tipton will moderate a live Zoom panel with engineers and a recruiter from Relativity Space, NAVAIR, and PSA Airlines on Wednesday, September 30. What does it take to build a career in aerospace, and what are employers looking for right now? Students in the William States Lee College of Engineering can…
Performance Materials Laboratory undergraduate researcher Sam Phillips traveled to Richmond, Virginia this month to present original research at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), held April 13-15 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University. Sam’s presentation, titled “Modeling the Transport of Forever Chemicals in the Arctic Ocean,” examined … Read more
We would like to congratulate Amaury Betancourt on his successful PhD defense! Amaury has worked full time while he pursued his PhD and it took a while but he never gave up and kept working hard. Amaury is a good example of a dream and hard work making anything come true.
This summer, the Performance Materials Laboratory (PML) had the pleasure of hosting Derek Heidenfelder as a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) student. Derek spent the summer running density functional theory (DFT) calculations on advanced semiconductor materials for energy applications, using the UNC Charlotte supercomputer to carry out his simulations. Computational materials research requires a different … Read more