Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Student Wins ARL Research Award (cont.)
MSE graduate student, Claire Weiss received the gold medal at the Army Research Laboratory Summer Student Research Symposium. Claire spent the summer carrying out experimental research for her PhD thesis at the ARL in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Her research was funded through her advisor’s (Pamir Alpay) U.S. Army Research Office grant on the development of tunable materials for On-The-Move (OTM) Communications.
Claire competed with about 110 undergraduate and graduate students for this award. Each student wrote papers describing their work and research results, which were reviewed by their directorate review panel. The top students from each directorate presented their papers to the ARL workforce, judged by the ARL Director and ARL Fellows panel.
Her gold medal was received at the symposium along with a $500 check for her work on “Novel Thin Film Materials for Tunable Device Applications” on August 7, 2008, at the Adelphi Laboratory Center in Maryland. The winners will also have their reports  published in a technical memorandum.
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