{"id":415,"date":"2017-04-06T21:53:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=415"},"modified":"2017-04-06T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:12:42","slug":"bethany-matthews-wins-u-s-department-energy-office-science-graduate-student-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2017\/04\/06\/bethany-matthews-wins-u-s-department-energy-office-science-graduate-student-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethany Matthews wins U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Matthews, a 4th-year graduate student in Prof. Janet Tate&#8217;s lab, has won a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) <a href=\"https:\/\/science.energy.gov\/wdts\/scgsr\/\">Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award<\/a>.\u00a0 The award is for the proposed research project, \u201cMicroscopy Analysis of Metastable Heterostructural Alloys with Anomalous Piezoelectric Response\u201d, to be conducted at the National Renewable Energy Laborat<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2017\/04\/BethanyMatthews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-416 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2017\/04\/BethanyMatthews.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2017\/04\/BethanyMatthews.jpg 178w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2017\/04\/BethanyMatthews-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a>ory (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/\">NREL<\/a>) in Golden, CO during the summer and fall of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The award citation states that, &#8220;The SCGSR award is in recognition of outstanding academic accomplishments and the merit of the SCGSR research proposal, and reflects Bethany Matthews\u2019s potential to advance the Ph.D. studies and make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science.&#8221; Congratulations, Bethany!<\/p>\n<p>Bethany will work with Dr. Andrew Norman of NREL and also with Prof. Brian Gorman and Dr. Andriy Zakutayev, her collaborators in the DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Center, the Center for Next-Generation Materials by Design. The EFRC members study metastable materials of many types, and Bethany&#8217;s role has been understanding metastable alloys.\u00a0 Her developing interest in transmission electron microscopy, using OSU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/emfacility.science.oregonstate.edu\/\">Electron Microscopy Facility<\/a> under the guidance of Dr. Pete Eschbach, led her to submit a proposal to DOE to study metastable alloys with microscopists at NREL and Colorado School of Mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Matthews, a 4th-year graduate student in Prof. Janet Tate&#8217;s lab, has won a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award.\u00a0 The award is for the proposed research project, \u201cMicroscopy Analysis of Metastable Heterostructural Alloys with Anomalous Piezoelectric Response\u201d, to be conducted at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2017\/04\/06\/bethany-matthews-wins-u-s-department-energy-office-science-graduate-student-research-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2027,3428,523,911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-graduate-students","category-research","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}