Dr. Liu Receives the Endowed Dorothy Pate Enright Professorship

Dr. Zi-Kui Liu has been selected to receive the Dorothy Pate Enright Professorship. This is an endowed professorship that was gifted to the department by our late alumna Dorothy Pate Enright. Dorothy received her M.S. in Ceramic Science in 1948 and went on to have a productive career in the oil and gas industry at a time when there were few women working in this field. Dorothy was featured in the Alumni Spotlights for a MatSE newsletter on the Department website.

The full story on the award can be found in the article Zi-Kui Liu named inaugural Dorothy Pate Enright Professor on the Penn State News website.

Our Alumnus Yong-Jie Becomes a Professor at Drexel

Congratulations to our alumnus Yong-Jie Hu (PhD, 2016) for starting as an assistant professor at Drexel University on January 1, 2021. We wish him all the best in his new career.

Former Visitor Becomes Professor

Congratulations to Fang Cheng (Visitor 2014) for obtaining his PhD degree and becoming Assistant Professor at China Jiliang University, Hangzhou.

Arkapol Saengdeejing (Ph.D. '11) Becomes a Professor

Congratulations to Arkapol Saengdeejing (PhD 2011) for becoming Assistant Professor at Department of finemechanics, Graduate school of engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.