by Hillary Smith | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Wuqian Zhang ’26 won the Alfred R. Cooper Scholars Award from the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society. The award recognizes undergraduate students who have demonstrated excellence in research, engineering, and/or study in glass...
by Hillary Smith | Aug 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dr. Smith spent the first part of 2025 as a US Fulbright Scholar at the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales. She worked with collaborators to develop alternatives to lithium-ion batteries for energy storage...
by Hillary Smith | Oct 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Professor Smith and her colleagues in Physics and Chemistry have received a Major Research Infrastructure grant from the National Science Foundation to bring a new X-ray Diffractometer to campus. Both research students and students in lab courses will have the...
by Hillary Smith | Sep 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Professor Smith has a received a new four-year grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research to study conductivity in low-cost sodium-based materials for use in rechargeable batteries.
by Hillary Smith | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Professor Smith was elected vice-chair of the SNS/HFIR User Group Executive Committee and will serve a 3-year term that began in Jan 2024. The SHUG-EC plays an important role in advocating for users who perform neutron experiments at Oak Ridge National Lab. Stay tuned...
by Hillary Smith | Aug 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Prof. Smith was awarded a 2023 DOE Early Career Award grant to support our work on glasses over the next five years. Read more here: https://science.osti.gov/early-career or...
by Hillary Smith | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Professor Smith, Colby Stoddard, and two collaborators spent a week at the SNS at Oak Ridge National Lab performing inelastic neutron scattering experiments. We were pleased with the whopping 1.45 MW power of the accelerator!
by Hillary Smith | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Elizabeth Brown, Simon Ji, Solomon Murdock, and Colby Stoddard each gave posters on Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Materials Research Society 2023 Fall Meeting in Boston, MA. Congratulations on a job well done!
by Hillary Smith | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dr. Smith presented our work on heat capacity measurements at the MS&T 2022 meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. It was great to see old and new friends in the glass community!
by Hillary Smith | Jun 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our first in-person experiment took place June 2022 on BASIS, the Backscattering Spectrometer at the SNS. Stay tuned for new results using quasielastic neutron scattering!
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