{"id":1158,"date":"2025-10-17T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/?page_id=1158"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:40:00","slug":"archived-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/archived-news\/","title":{"rendered":"News Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Year<\/th>Month<\/th>News Item<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2018<\/td>January<\/td>We welcome undergrad Ellie to the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>January<\/td>In collaboration with McDowell & Vojvodic Labs, our group wins a Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage Team Award to study ion re\u2011coordination at solid\u2011state interfaces. Thank you to the Research Corporation for Science Advancement for the funding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>December<\/td>Veronica, John, and SciBridge members John Paul Eneku, Alex Hsain, and Alexandria Cruz attend the 9th International Conference of the African Materials Research Society in Gaborone, Botswana. Everyone gives talks on research and SciBridge, and Veronica organizes the Materials Education and Networking Symposium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica is a finalist for the 2017 BASF VW Science Award Electrochemistry and attends the Science Dialog in Karlsruhe, Germany. Thank you to the sponsors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica gives an invited seminar in the Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering at Northwestern University and an invited talk at the Materials Science Alliance for an Inclusive Community at Northwestern. Many thanks to Prof. Sossina Haile for hosting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>We welcome undergrad Andie and visiting undergrad Ming to the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Mike wins 1st place at the 2017 Carolina Science Symposium Poster Competition. Congratulations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Shelby wins 1st place at the RTNN & PANalytical Non-ambient XRD Workshop Poster Competition at NC State. Congratulations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica gives an invited talk at the 2017 SERMACS in Charlotte, NC. Thanks to Steve Creager for the invitation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica participates in the first Research Corporation for Science Advancement Scialog on Advanced Energy Storage. Thanks to the RCSA for the Scialog Fellowship.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>October<\/td>Our collaborative Perspective with Yury Gogotsi on 2D materials with nanoconfined fluids for energy storage is published in Joule.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>October<\/td>James and Mike present posters at the Triangle Student Research Competition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>October<\/td>Veronica gives two invited talks and John and Shelby present posters at the 232nd ECS Meeting. Many thanks to the organizers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>September<\/td>Veronica gives invited seminars at Virginia Tech (Dept. of Chemistry) and UNC\u2013Chapel Hill. Thanks to Profs. Feng Lin and Tom Meyer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>September<\/td>James passes the PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>March<\/td>Undergraduate student Kay joins the group. Welcome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>March<\/td>James presents a poster at the NC State Graduate Student Research Symposium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>March<\/td>\u00c9owyn and Shelby are awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Congratulations and thanks to NSF for support.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>March<\/td>John and Anna travel to Oak Ridge National Lab to perform scanning probe microscopy at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Thanks to DOE for funding and Dr. Nina Balke for hosting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>February<\/td>Veronica gives an invited seminar at the Dept. of Physics, Wake Forest University. Thanks to Prof. Natalie Holzwarth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>January<\/td>Undergraduate student Matthew joins the group. Welcome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>January<\/td>Shelby passes the PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>January<\/td>Veronica gives an invited talk at the ACerS Electronic Materials & Applications 2017 Symposium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>November<\/td>The group presents posters at the 2016 NC State MSE Research Poster Competition. James wins 1st place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica receives an NSF CAREER Award from the Division of Materials Research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>November<\/td>Ruocun, Shelby, and James present at the 2016 MRS\/ASM\/AVS Joint Symposium at NC State; Shelby wins Best Poster Presentation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>October<\/td>Veronica gives an invited seminar at Texas State University. Thanks to Prof. Chris Rhodes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>October<\/td>Anna and \u00c9owyn present at SERMACS and receive Undergraduate Travel Grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>October<\/td>Veronica publishes an invited review on tuning the interlayer of transition metal oxides for Journal of Materials Research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>October<\/td>Group members present at the Center for Dielectrics & Piezoelectrics Fall 2016 Meeting and the Triangle Student Research Competition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>September<\/td>The group hosts SciBridge Africa coordinator John Paul Eneku from Makerere University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>September<\/td>Ruocun (John) passes the PhD qualifying exam.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>August<\/td>Veronica gives a talk at the Shaw University Science Colloquium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>August<\/td>Anna and \u00c9owyn receive Undergraduate Research Grants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>August<\/td>Veronica speaks at the 25th International Materials Research Congress in Mexico.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>August<\/td>William defends his M.S. thesis. Congratulations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>August<\/td>Graduate student James joins the group. Welcome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>July<\/td>Veronica gives a talk at the TSRC Workshop on Interfacial Chemistry and Charge Transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>July<\/td>Veronica, John, and Anna visit Oak Ridge National Lab; Veronica gives a seminar there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>July<\/td>Veronica co-organizes a symposium on multivalent electrochemical energy storage for the MRS Spring 2017 meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>June<\/td>Veronica and John present at the CDP Spring Meeting in Kyoto, Japan; Veronica gives a seminar at Tokyo Denki University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>June<\/td>Veronica and collaborators at University of Wollongong receive a UGPN grant on sodium-ion batteries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>May<\/td>Veronica receives an ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>April<\/td>Ocean Optics interviews Veronica in their monthly newsletter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>April<\/td>The group participates in NC State\u2019s NanoDays, guiding high school students through battery research.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>April<\/td>Veronica gives an invited talk at the WITec Confocal Raman Imaging Workshop at Rutgers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>April<\/td>SciBridge wins 2nd place in the \u201cSustainability in My Community\u201d competition; Veronica presents at MRS Spring Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>March<\/td>Ruocun (John) receives a College of Engineering Professional Development Travel Award.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>March<\/td>Undergraduate student Anna joins the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>March<\/td>SciBridge is featured in NC State\u2019s Engineering alumni magazine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>March<\/td>Veronica gives seminars at CSIRO Manufacturing in Sydney and at UNSW, and presents at the UGPN annual meeting in Wollongong.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>February<\/td>SciBridge receives an NC State East Africa Strategic Initiative grant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>January<\/td>SciBridge volunteers present at the 5th Annual Shaw University Student Research Symposium.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>January<\/td>Veronica gives an invited talk on pseudocapacitance at the 40th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>January<\/td>Graduate student Shelby joins the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>December<\/td>AAAS Science & Diplomacy publishes the group\u2019s \u201cLetter from the Field\u201d on SciBridge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>December<\/td>Veronica writes a post for \u201cThis is What Science Looks Like at NC State.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>November<\/td>Mikayla earns an IRES Fellowship to conduct research in Australia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>November<\/td>SciBridge wins an NC State Mini Grant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>November<\/td>Veronica is an invited panelist at NC State\u2019s Global Issues Seminar on \u201cThe Energy We Consume.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>November<\/td>John presents a poster at the MRS\/ASM\/AVS Joint Symposium at NC State.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>October<\/td>John and William present posters at the first NC State MSE Alumni Homecoming.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>October<\/td>John and William present posters and Veronica gives a tutorial at the Center for Dielectrics & Piezoelectrics Fall Meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>October<\/td>Veronica presents research to NC State\u2019s MRS Chapter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>October<\/td>Veronica gives a seminar at NC State\u2019s Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Thanks to Prof. Peter Fedkiw.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>September<\/td>Undergraduate student Mikayla joins the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>August<\/td>Graduate students John and William and undergraduate student \u00c9owyn join the group.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/split-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"backgroundColor\":\"custombg_nine\",\"imageID\":1045,\"imageURL\":\"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/10\/goodnight-innovators-header-image.jpg\",\"imageAlt\":\"Memorial Belltower\",\"pageIntro\":\"Augustyn Research Lab updates from 2015-2018\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1158\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/augustyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}