Toberer receives NSF CAREER Award

Toberer

GOLDEN, Colo., Feb. 15, 2016 – Physics Assistant Professor Eric Toberer has received an NSF CAREER Award for research that could ultimately yield the next generation of thermoelectric materials.

The project, titled "Control of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Complex Thermoelectric Semiconductors," has been awarded $625,000, and seeks to understand the factors that determine the efficiency of certain materials in converting heat into electricity.

Critical Materials Institute winter meeting held at Colorado School of Mines

GOLDEN, Colo., Feb. 12, 2016 – More than 90 researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) gathered at Colorado School of Mines (Mines) for the CMI Winter Meeting Feb. 3-4. Attendees came from the Ames, Idaho, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national laboratories, as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Iowa State University, Purdue, University of California – Davis, University of Tennessee, Yale and Mines.