Alumni/ae

Thermeleon, a team of current graduate students and recent alums, took first place in last night's MADMEC finals. The team has developed a color-changing roof tile that is white to reflect sunlight when the outside temperature is warm, and dark to absorb hear when the weather is cold. The MIT News Office has published a story on their work.

Jeremy K. Mason, Ph.D. 2009, was one of the three ACTA winners this year. He was recognized for his paper, ‘‘Hyperspherical harmonics for the representation of crystallographic texture”, Acta Materialia 56, 2008:6141–6155.
The award was decided by a team of judges consisting of Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia editors.

Nonglak Meethong, Ph.D. 2009, won this year’s Student Research Award of the Battery Division of The Electrochemical Society, which will be presented at the Fall ECS Meeting in Vienna, Austria in October 2009.

Ayr Muir, class of 2000 and proprietor of the Clover Food Lab truck, is profiled in the Sept. 15 issue of The Tech.

Cody Friesen, who received the Ph.D. in 2004, was named to Technology Review's TR 35, the top innovators under 35 years of age. He was recognized for his work on making cheaper, higher-energy batteries to store renewable energy. To see the full story and an interview with Prof. Friesen, visit Technology Review.