September 2005

Agency Briefs

POTSDAM — S.V. Babu, director of the NYSTAR-funded Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) and Distinguished University Professor at Clarkson University, recently co-authored his 20th career patent. His latest patent details a method for polishing compositions comprising polymeric cores having inorganic surfaces. The process was invented by Babu and Dennis E. Smith of the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., and has potential applications in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of metal and dielectric films of importance in the fabrication of semiconductor devices.
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Higher Education

WATERTOWN — Jefferson Community College announced a new Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree program in Computer Information Technology. See Press Release TOP

Scientists In The News

POTSDAM — Clarkson University graduate students Todd M. DeShane and Patricia A. Jablonski recently won a contest that allowed them to show that Clarkson is on top of their game when it comes to Linux, and that the University is on the forefront of Linux development technology. See Press Release TOP

National Science Foundation Awards

Ruth E. Baltus (Courtesy of Clarkson University)

POTSDAM — Ruth E. Baltus of Clarkson University is the recipient of a $269,997 NSF grant to carry out a fundamental study of the transport characteristics of a variety of gases and organic solutes in room temperature ionic liquids. Detail TOP

Ratneshwar Jha (Courtesy of Clarkson University)

POTSDAM — Ratneshwar Jha, Jubum Kim, Pier Marzocca, Edward Sazonov, and Goodarz Ahmadi of Clarkson University are the recipients of a $199,000 NSF grant for the acquisition of a high performance scanning laser vibrometer. Detail TOP

POTSDAM — Suresh Dhaniyala and Philip K. Hopke of Clarkson University are the recipients of a $100,000 NSF grant to design and develop instrumentation that can enable in-situ, real-time, and high-resolution measurements of nanoparticle size distributions and provide compositional characterization. Detail TOP

POTSDAM — Sergiy Minko of Clarkson University is the recipient of a $60,000 NSF grant for a new approach to the fabrication of smart colloidal systems based on a combination of nanoparticles and spherical mixed polymer brushes. Detail TOP

Other Awards

CANTON — The George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Massachusetts, has awarded a grant of $150,000 to St. Lawrence University, to be used toward construction of its new 115,000-square-foot Sarah Johnson Redlich '82 Hall of Science. The building, scheduled to be completed for use in the fall of 2007, is the largest construction project in the history of St. Lawrence. Detail TOP