Prof. Izabela Szlufarska receives 2008 NSF CAREER award

      Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering Izabela Szlufarska received the 2008 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She was awarded $400,000 over five year period for a project "Molecular Basis for Viscoelastic Response of Nano-Mechanical Biosensors". This project will provide relationships between molecular structures at the solid/liquid interface and the mechanical response of MEMS/NEMS resonators. The ability to predict relative resonance shifts will enable design of structures capable of real-time biosensing and will lead to basic understanding of wear and related issues.