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Sep 14, 2024
The Principal Investigator of the TARDISS ERC, Professor Puskas, was given a free exhibition booth at the 2024 International Elastomer Conference, which offered an exquisite opportunity to connect with potential new partners of this ERC. Additionally, Professor Puskas, Professor Shah, Professor McKenna, and Josh Knights introduced TARDISS in a one-hour-long presentation in Theater One of the conference.
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Sep 11, 2024
The TARDISS project was launched on September 1, and the Kickoff meeting of the project has already taken place on the Wooster campus of The Ohio State University. To ensure that everyone can join, the meeting was hybrid and could be joined online and in person. The meeting was attended by the deans of two colleges (College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences - Cathann A. Kress; College of Engineering - Ayanna Howard). Two associate deans and the Chair of FABE, Scott Shearer, attended the meeting in person.
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Sep 8, 2024
Natural rubber is an extremely versatile polymer with applications in many industrial fields. As demonstrated by the photo attached to this news article, it can be used as a raw material for manufacturing footwear, such as shoes or sandals. The TARDISS ERC (see the announcement posted on Aug 21 in this news feed) will help proliferate domestically produced natural rubber in the elastomer industry.
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Sep 7, 2024
Professor Puskas was named a Distinguished University Professor and received her medal during a ceremony attended by Walter E. Carter Jr., President of The Ohio State University. The photo commemorating the meeting of Professor Puskas and President Carter is shown on the left.
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Sep 3, 2024
At the latest Ohio State Buckeyes football event, Professor Puskas met with Richard Michael DeWine, who has been serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio. A photo capturing this event is shown on the left. Congratulations!
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Aug 27, 2024
This semester, Professor Puskas has been named a Distinguished University Professor, which is the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University. Now, she has received the medal and plaque of this prestigious distinction.
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Aug 25, 2024
Professor Puskas has been named a Distinguished University Professor, which is the highest faculty honor at The Ohio State University. The ceremony can be watched by following the link provided below.
https://livestream.com/wosu/botaugust2024/videos/250000079
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Aug 21, 2024
The TARDISS ERC has been awarded $26 million in federal funding to start natural rubber production in the United States and enhance workforce development to fuel the new domestic industry. TARDISS, composed of academic partners and supported by industry stakeholders, will lead fundamental research supporting the creation of a “Silicon Valley of Domestic Natural Rubber Production”.
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Aug 16, 2024
This summer, Professor Miroslawa El Fray is visiting the Puskas Group. Professor El Fray is a long-time collaborator of Professor Puskas and a decorated researcher at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (ZUT). She is also Director of the Nanotechnology Centre for Education and Research, and Head of the Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science. She was a post-doc at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, and scientific researcher at the University Bayreuth, Germany.
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Jul 19, 2024
In the framework of the Green-Map project, two researchers from Europe are visiting the Puskas Group during the summer months of 2024. Magdalena Zdanowicz is seconded to the OSU from the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (ZUT), whereas Luca Ciacci is representing the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (UNIBO). We are delighted to welcome them.
