Coe College

RENOVATION OF COE COLLEGE'S PETERSON HALL OF SCIENCE

GRANT FOR INSTITUTIONAL EMERGENCY FUNDING

EMERGENCY FINANCIAL AID GRANTS TO STUDENTS

COE COLLEGE STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES TRIO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM

STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM

STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM

UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM

ADVANCED CALORIMETRY FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS: CHARACTERIZATION AND MATERIAL EXPLORATION FOR ENHANCED RADIATION-HARD TIMING AND RESOLUTION

TRIO - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES - STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM

TRIO - UPWARD BOUND - UPWARD BOUND PROGRAM

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTATION

THE STEMPATH APPROACH: SUCCESS FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS

RUI: STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF NEW, PRACTICAL GLASSES

RUI: RESEARCH ON GLASS AT COE COLLEGE

RUI: GLASS SCIENCE RESEARCH AT COE COLLEGE -NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS GRANT SUPPORTS RESEARCH ON GLASS SCIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES AT COE COLLEGE IN CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. THE RESEARCH PLAN IS FOCUSED ON DISCOVERING NEW GLASS FAMILIES WITH NOVEL PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE. SOME EXAMPLES OF THESE GLASSES ARE OF POTENTIAL USE IN BATTERIES. STUDENTS USE VARIOUS WAYS TO RAPIDLY QUENCH LIQUIDS TO GLASSES DESIGNED AND BUILT IN-HOUSE. STRUCTURE IS FOUND USING VARIOUS FORMS SPECTROSCOPIES. PROPERTIES INCLUDE THERMAL AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS AS WELL AS DENSITY, HARDNESS, AND ELECTRICAL AND IONIC CONDUCTIVITY. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS AND THEORETICAL MODELS ARE FREQUENTLY DONE. BROADER IMPACTS ARE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THIS PROJECT. THE FOREMOST BROADER IMPACT IS THAT THESE UNDERGRADUATES, RAPIDLY INCREASING IN DIVERSITY, GAIN SEVERAL YEARS OF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. THIS SERVES THE NATIONAL INTEREST AND HELPS PROVIDE THE NATION WITH URGENTLY NEEDED HIGHLY TRAINED TECHNICAL STAFF AS WELL AS PROVIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SOURCE OF WELL-EDUCATED STUDENTS FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL. ANOTHER IMPORTANT BROADER IMPACT IS THAT COE COLLEGE IS NOW A HUB OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERTISE IN GLASS SCIENCE. KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM IS BEING SYSTEMATICALLY SHARED WITH FACULTY AT OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING SEVERAL MINORITY SERVING ONES. ALSO, AS PART OF COE?S REU PROGRAM, STUDENTS FROM RESEARCH-POOR COLLEGES AND HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHERS JOIN THIS RESEARCH. HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS ALSO JOIN THIS RESEARCH PROGRAM EACH SUMMER. TECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS GRANT SUPPORTS RESEARCH ON NOVEL OXIDE GLASSES BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT COE COLLEGE. THE RESEARCH PLAN IS TO EXTEND GLASS FORMATION TO NEW COMPOSITIONS IN A VARIETY OF POTENTIAL BINARY AND TERNARY GLASS FORMING SYSTEMS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDERSTUDIED. SOME EXAMPLES OF THESE SYSTEMS INCLUDE ALKALI TELLURITES AND VANADATES WHERE THERE ARE PROMISING RESULTS FROM THIS LAB. FOR EXAMPLE, INVERT TELLURITE GLASSES HAVE BEEN FORMED WITH UP TO 65 MOLAR PERCENT SODIUM OXIDE. FOR THIS PROJECT, TWIN-ROLLER QUENCHING IS USED ON CUSTOM DESIGNED AND BUILT INSTRUMENTS MADE HERE BY STUDENTS AND FACULTY. PROPERTIES AND ATOMIC STRUCTURE ARE MEASURED AND COMPARED. THESE TECHNIQUES INCLUDE THERMAL (TG, TX, TM, AND FRAGILITY), OPTICAL (TOF-MS, LASER LEVITATION STUDIES OF GLASS FORMATION AND VISCOSITY, RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, AND XRD) PROPERTIES AS WELL AS DENSITY, HARDNESS, AND IONIC CONDUCTIVITY. WITH COLLABORATORS NMR, X-RAY, AND NEUTRON SCATTERING STUDIES ARE CARRIED OUT. ALSO, MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS AND TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINT THEORY ARE EMPLOYED TO DETERMINE COMPOSITIONALLY CHANGING PROPERTIES FROM STRUCTURAL MODELS AND KNOWLEDGE OF BOND CONSTRAINTS. BROADER IMPACTS ARE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THIS PROJECT. THE FOREMOST BROADER IMPACT IS THAT MANY UNDERGRADUATES GAIN MULTIPLE YEARS OF PUBLISHABLE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. THIS PROVIDES THE NATION WITH TRAINED TECHNICAL STAFF AS WELL AS PROVIDE A SOURCE OF WELL-EDUCATED GRADUATE STUDENTS. ANOTHER IMPORTANT BROADER IMPACT IS THAT COE COLLEGE CONTINUES TO SERVE AS HUB OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERTISE. THIS KNOWLEDGE IS BEING SYSTEMATICALLY SHARED WITH OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, INCLUDING SEVERAL MINORITY SERVING ONES. WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS AT TECHNICAL CONFERENCES, AND MUTUAL VISITS ALSO OCCUR. OUTREACH TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS HAPPENS OFTEN. HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS JOIN THIS RESEARCH PROGRAM EACH SUMMER. STUDENTS FROM RESEARCH-POOR COLLEGES AND TEACHERS JOIN THIS RESEARCH EACH SUMMER AS PART OF COE?S REU PROGRAM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

EARMARKS

REU/RET SITE: SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE -COE COLLEGE?S RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) SITE PROVIDES TEN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO CARRY OUT SUMMER RESEARCH WITH A FOCUS ON SPECTROSCOPY. THESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ARE INVOLVED IN ALL ASPECT OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY, FROM MAKING SAMPLES TO CARRYING OUT MEASUREMENTS, INTERPRETING THE RESULTS, AND PRESENTING THEIR WORK TO OTHERS. THE GOAL IS TO ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO EXPERIENCE THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE OF A WORKING RESEARCH SCIENTIST, AND TO INSPIRE A LIFELONG PASSION FOR A SCIENTIFIC CAREER. THIS SITE ALSO INCLUDES A RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR TEACHERS (RET), WHERE EACH SUMMER TWO HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS PARTICIPATE IN A RESEARCH PROJECT. THE TEACHERS WILL USE THEIR EXPERIENCE TO DEVELOP ADDITIONS TO THE COURSE CURRICULUM, MOTIVATE THEIR STUDENTS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL WORLD BY SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCE ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AND ULTIMATELY PREPARE THEM TO BECOME THE FUTURE GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS. THE REU STUDENTS WILL CARRY OUT RESEARCH IN GLASS SCIENCE, OPTICS, PARTICLE PHYSICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, APPLIED DATA SCIENCE (AS APPLIED TO NMR ANALYSIS), DETECTOR MODELING, BIOMATERIALS, AND OTHER AREAS. IN ADDITION TO THE RESEARCH WORK, THE REU PARTICIPANTS WILL ALSO PRESENT THEIR WORK AT LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. NEW ACTIVITIES DURING THIS CYCLE INCLUDE (A) A NEW WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF MACHINE LEARNING AND AI TOOLS IN SPECTROSCOPY, WHICH ALSO EXTENDS THE REU SITE TO COE?S DATA SCIENCE PROGRAM; (B) THE INVOLVEMENT OF PURDUE'S CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL LEARNING, MENTORSHIP, ASSESSMENT, AND RESEARCH (CILMAR) FOR THE TRAINING OF FACULTY AND STUDENTS; AND (C) THE ADDITION OF STUDENT JOURNALING. THE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE EXPOSED AND TRAINED IN A VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING FTIR, RAMAN, NMR, SEM, ABSORPTION AND FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPIES, SPM, X-RAY FLUORESCENCE, CALORIMETRY, IMPEDANCE SPECTROMETRY, AND OTHERS. THE LARGE (AND GROWING) VARIETY OF PROJECTS IS DESIGNED TO BE SUITABLE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BUT ALSO CHALLENGING AND LEADING TO RESULTS OF INTEREST TO EXTERNAL RESEARCHERS. IN ONE PROJECT, FOR INSTANCE, THE REU STUDENT WILL MANUFACTURE HIGH-ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVITY GLASSES FOR USE IN PARTICLE DETECTORS. IN ANOTHER PROJECT ON BIOMATERIALS, THE REU STUDENT WILL USE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY TO LOOK AT BIOFILMS, LOOKING AT THE CELL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE FILM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.

RUI: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN GLASS SCIENCE AT COE COLLEGE; A NATIONAL MODEL OF EXCELLENCE

MRI: ACQUISITION OF AN INTEGRATED SPM/RAMAN/SNOM SYSTEM FOR MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION

COE COLLEGE TRIO SSS 2025-30 GRANT APPLICATION

REU SITE: SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE

REU SITE: SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE

REU SITE: SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A CALORIMETRY STA/TMA SYSTEM FOR COE COLLEGE -NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION (MRI) AWARD, JOINTLY FUNDED BY THE DIVISION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (EPSCOR), WILL ACQUIRE A NEW THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM WHICH WILL ALLOW THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT AT COE COLLEGE TO MEASURE VARIOUS PROPERTIES THAT DEPEND ON TEMPERATURE UP TO VERY HIGH VALUES. THE SCIENTISTS WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE BEHAVIOR OF SAMPLES AS THE TEMPERATURE IS INCREASED UP TO 2000 DEGREES CELSIUS. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THEY WILL CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS ON GLASSES THAT ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO MAKE. THEY WILL ALSO MEASURE THERMAL PROPERTIES LIKE MELTING POINTS, CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURES, AND THE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE (WHERE THE GLASS BEGINS TO SOFTEN). THE SYSTEM WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. THESE DETERMINE HOW EASILY A GLASS STRETCHES AS THE TEMPERATURE INCREASES (THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENT), AS WELL AS VOLUME AND DENSITY CHANGES. MORE ADVANCED EXPERIMENTS THAT DETERMINE PROPERTIES LIKE THE SINTERING TEMPERATURE (WHERE GLASS GRAINS COALESCE INTO A SOLID) WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THESE MEASUREMENTS ARE CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING STATE-OF-THE-ART NEW GLASSES AND CERAMIC MATERIALS OF FUTURE IMPORTANCE TO THE US ECONOMY. THE WORK WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THE TRAINING OF MANY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. ON TOP OF CARRYING OUT THE RESEARCH DESCRIBED ABOVE, THEY WILL ALSO BE EXPOSED TO THE INSTRUMENTS IN CERTAIN ADVANCED CLASSES. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS WILL ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO THE EQUIPMENT DURING THEIR VISITS TO COE. TECHNICAL SUMMARY THE NEW THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM AT COE COLLEGE WILL BE COMPOSED OF A SIMULTANEOUS THERMAL ANALYZER (WHICH RUNS DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC), DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS (DTA), AND THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS (TGA)) AND A THERMOMECHANICAL ANALYZER (TMA). THIS SUITE OF TOOLS WILL ENABLE VARIOUS COE RESEARCH GROUPS TO EXPAND THEIR MEASUREMENT CAPABILITIES INTO THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE RANGE, WITH DSC/DTA MEASUREMENTS UP TO 2000 ?C AND 1600 ?C FOR THE MECHANICAL (TMA) EXPERIMENTS. PROJECTS WILL SPAN FROM MEASUREMENTS ON AEROLEVITATED SAMPLES TO COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE RESULTS ON INVERT GLASSES AND TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAIN THEORY (TCT) MODELS. THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF IONICALLY CONDUCTING GLASSES WILL ALSO BE STUDIED. THE STA+TMA SYSTEM WILL ADD SUBSTANTIVE NEW CAPABILITIES TO THE MATERIALS RESEARCH GROUPS AT COE COLLEGE; ALLOW FOR THE TRAINING OF OVER 70 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, AND CONTINUE THE GROWTH OF COE COLLEGE AS A REGIONAL MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION HUB. IN TURN, THE CHARACTERIZATION WORK ON THE SYSTEM WILL IMPACT OTHER LOCAL ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND COMPANIES, DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS; REU STUDENTS; AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS PARTICIPATING IN COE?S RET PROGRAM. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

ADVANCING ASTROPHYSICS RESEARCH PROJECT

SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE: A RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES SITE

EQUIPMENT: MRI: TRACK 1 ACQUISITION OF ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROMETER FOR RESEARCH IN GLASS WITH UNDERGRADUATES -NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY THIS MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION PROJECT, JOINTLY FUNDED BY DIVISION OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (EPSCOR), FUNDS THE ACQUISITION OF A ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROMETER (EIS). THIS ACQUISITION ALLOWS THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT AT COE COLLEGE AND THEIR COLLABORATORS TO DRASTICALLY EXPAND THEIR RESEARCH BY ALLOWING ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOLID AND LIQUID SAMPLES AT TEMPERATURES OF UP TO 2200 OF (OR 1200 OC), UNDER CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE. TO DO SO, THE EQUIPMENT MEASURES THE PHASE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE INPUT VOLTAGE AND THE OUTPUT CURRENT BEING APPLIED AT THE SAMPLE, AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES. THE RESULTS ARE THEN STATISTICALLY COMPARED TO ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS WHO PRESENT A SIMILAR BEHAVIOR, AND THAT DATA IS USED TO CALCULATE THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SAMPLE. THE WORK WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR THE TRAINING OF TWELVE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, AS THEY WILL HAVE REGULAR ACCESS TO IT EVERY SUMMER. ADDITIONALLY, STUDENTS WILL ALSO BE EXPOSED TO THE INSTRUMENTS IN CERTAIN ADVANCED CLASSES, SUCH AS MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ADVANCED LABORATORY. THE EQUIPMENT WILL ALSO BE USED IN COLLABORATION WITH ORGANIZATIONS FROM COE COLLEGE THAT REPRESENT UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN STEM FIELDS TO PROMOTE THIS CAREER PERSPECTIVE AND ATTRACT MORE FUTURE SCIENTISTS TO THE FIELD. TECHNICAL SUMMARY THE NEW ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROMETER SYSTEM AT COE COLLEGE WILL BE COMPOSED OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE MODULAR MEASUREMENT SYSTEM (RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DIELECTRIC, CONDUCTIVITY, ELECTROCHEMICAL, IMPEDANCE AND GAIN PHASE MEASUREMENTS IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN), WITH A FREQUENCY RANGE OF 3 MICRO-HZ TO 20 MEGA-HZ THANKS TO ITS WIDE IMPEDANCE TEST INTERFACE. TWO FURNACES ACCOMPANY THE SYSTEM ? A NOVOTHERM TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SAMPLE CELLS WITH A TEMPERATURE RANGE OF +25?C TO 400?C AND A TURNKEY HIGH-TEMPERATURE SYSTEM, WITH A TEMPERATURE RANGE OF +25?C TO 1200?C BUT DESIGNED TO OPERATE IDEALLY AT TEMPERATURES ABOVE 300 OC. THE TURNKEY FURNACE CAN ALSO OPERATE UNDER A CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE. MORE SPECIFIC TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT, THE EIS EQUIPMENT WILL BE USED TO CHARACTERIZE GLASSES AND GLASS-CERAMICS WITH UNUSUALLY HIGH ALKALI CONTENT, MEASURE THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF GLASSES THAT ARE USUALLY HARD-TO-PREPARE, HELP WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSSIBLE COMMERCIAL COMPOSITIONS WITH THE ADVANCE OF PREDICTIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND USED TO HELP DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR OBTAINING CRYSTAL GROWTH IN GLASS CERAMICS. THE EIS SYSTEM WILL EXPAND DRASTICALLY THE CHARACTERIZATION CAPABILITIES OF THE MATERIALS RESEARCH GROUPS AT COE COLLEGE; AND CONTINUE THE GROWTH OF THE INSTITUTION AS A NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION HUB. ADDITIONALLY, THE CHARACTERIZATION WORK ON THE SYSTEM WILL IMPACT OTHER LOCAL AND NATIONAL ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS, LOCAL COMPANIES, DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS, AS WELL AS REU STUDENTS, AND RET HIGH-SCHOOL TEACHERS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.

SPECTROSCOPY AT COE COLLEGE: A RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU) SITE IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

MRI: ACQUISITION OF A SYSTEM FOR NOVEL SYNTHESIS OF GLASSES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

HIGHER EDUCATION DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM

RUI: COE COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM IN GLASS SCIENCE

2022 CONFERENCE: A WORKSHOP ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FOR FACULTY IN GLASS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA)

TRAVEL SUPPORT TO THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BORATE GLASSES, CRYSTALS, AND MELTS (BORATE 2008), OSAKA, JAPAN, AUGUST 17 - 23, 2008