July 30, 2025
O-REU 2025 outstanding presentation award winner announced.
Congratulations to Annetta Davoli for her presentation titled “The Effect of Free Surfaces on Dislocation Mobility in Magnesium“
August 17, 2024
Gaby Polakovic made a video about a day in her life as an O-REU research intern.
July 31, 2024
O-REU 2024 outstanding presentations award winners announced. This year we have a tie and they are:
Congratulations to Jesse Samuel Contreras for his presentation titled “Investigating Mechanical Properties of Li-Alloys for Application in Solid-State Batteries.”
And to Mikayla Alexa Obrist for her presentation titled “Identifying Suitable Subgraphs for Design of Compositionally Graded Alloys (CGAs).”
August 1, 2023
O-REU 2023 outstanding presentation award announced
Congratulations to the winner, Raina Tung, for her presentation titled “Dislocation properties and mobilities in Ti via molecular dynamics simulations.”
August 2, 2022
O-REU 2022 outstanding presentation award announced
Congratulations to the winner, Victor Villanueva, for his presentation titled “Quantitative Metallographic Analysis using Machine Learning.”
August 3, 2021
O-REU 2021 outstanding presentation awards announced
Congratulations to the winners!
- Atiana Bruce, “An Analysis of the Corrosion Preventative Capabilities of 2D Nanomaterials”
- Robert Kaman, “Quantification of Thermo-Hydrogen Refined Microstructural (THRM) features in Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V”
- Lauren Ward, “Modeling the evolution of interpolating microstructures in nano-layered metal composites”
- Kevin Zhang, “Creating a Welding and Joining Database Homepage”
Sept. 29 2020
August 7, 2020
O-REU 2020 outstanding presentation awards announced
Congratulations to the winners!
- Krista Schoonover, “Competition between deprotonation and nucleophilic addition: computational insight into silyl ketenes as molecular building blocks”
- Advika Chesetti, “Effect of collision cascade on nano-scale cracks in metals”
- Durward Cator, “Application of optimal estimation methods to disease modeling”
- Taylor Rosen, “Effects of temperature dependent coefficient of thermal expansion on thermal stress weathering in small asteroids”
- Britney Fang, “Machine learning optimization for multifunctional material design”
- Nadia Zaragoza, ”Simulating Fe-Cr surface interactions to inform Fe-Cr thin film growth parameters”
July 8, 2020
June 28, 2020
June 17, 2020