Congratulations to Mahdi Jamali and co-workers! Their joint work “Evaluation of spin waves and ferromagnetic resonance contribution to the spin pumping in a Ta/CoFeB structure” published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics was selected by the Editorial Board to feature in Highlights of 2016.

Patrick Quarterman is awarded the 2016-17 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School. The fellowship supports his Ph.D. study for one academic year and provides a travel grant for him to present his work at a conference. Congratulations, Patrick!

Kai Wu won the Best Poster Award at the 2016 Annual Conference and Retreat for the Institute for Engineering in Medicine. Presented under the Cellular and Molecular Biosensing theme.

Kai Wu won the Bronze Poster Award at 2016 IEEE Magnetics Summer School, Sendai, Japan.

Prof. Jian-Ping Wang has been appointed to the newly established Hartmann Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The Hartmann chair was established by a generous gift from Robert F. Hartmannn who received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1965 and went on to found Altera Corporation in 1983, one of only two major FPGA companies in the world. Altera was recently purchased by Intel.  Previously, Prof.

Graduation of Dr. Klemm from Wang's group. Dr. Klemm is heading to Intel.

Graduation of Dr. Schhlip from Wang's group and congrats to his NRC fellowship and joining NIST.

Kai Wu is awarded the highly coveted Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) for the 2016-2017 academic year, by the University of Minnesota.

Graduation of Dr. Xiaowei Zhang from Wang's group. His dissertation topic is Giant Saturation Magnetization Fe16N2 Thin Film. Dr. Zhang is heading to Niron Magnetics Inc., a startup company co-founded by Prof. Jian-Ping Wang. 

Congratulations to Dr. Zhang