14 The HBCU Advocate Presidential Search FROM PAGE 1


Ms. Esthelda Parker-Selby, DSU alumna;


representative);Mr. M. Fried, Beebe


representative) Mr. James W. Stewart III,


Healthcare president


DSU alumnus, retired healthcare administrator,


Mr. Joel Coppadge, Aetna (community and


(community


Jeffrey CEO,


CEO, Epic Research (community representative);


Tamara Stoner, University Board of


actively working to retain a search firm to assist the University. More updates will be forthcoming from the University regarding the presidential appropriate.


The committee is currently search work when


Delaware State University Awarded $450,000 Air Force Research Grant


Carroll, as a Roman Catholic, was barred from public office, but his First Citizen


long career of public service. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence,


Senate. The First Citizen Award features a commemorative medal and is regarded as the highest honor bestowed on a Maryland citizen by the Maryland Senate.


Previous First Citizen Award Congress and U.S. letters launched a


Maryland’s first Constitution and served in the State Senate, Continental


helped shape


recipients include Maryland State Del. Howard “Pete” Rawlings; Maryland Gov. William Schaefer; Maryland General


Donald Maryland


J. Joseph Curran Del.


Rawlings-Blake


Attorney Jr.;


Dixon; former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie


Richard N. and


former Morgan President Earl S. Richardson.


Congratulations to Dr. David


Wilson for receiving this award and for his continued leadership of our university.


secretary, will serve as the committee’s administrative support.


Trustees


Volume 1 Number 9 Citizen Award FROM PAGE 1


Spring 2018


(L-r) Dr. Mukti Rana, chair of the Dept. of Physics and Engineering and the grant’s principal investigator, with Danzel Hill and Andrew Voshell, undergraduate and graduate students, respectively. Both students are working with Dr. Rana on the research project.


State


DOVER, Del. – A Delaware University


physics properties and


engineering faculty member recently received a three-year $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research that will contribute to the development of new two-dimensional materials for the detection of infra-red light and other applications.


Dr. Mukti Rana, chair of


the DSU Department of Physics and Engineering, is the principal investigator of the grant.


team will investigate the electronic properties


Dr. Rana and his research of


various which has


layers of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2),


combined unique


properties that make it a promising candidate for use in memory chips. In addition to MoS2, the research team will do similar investigative work on tungsten disulphide (WS2) as well as an alloyed mixture of the two materials – molybdenum tungsten disulphide.


“Layered MoS2 is atomically


thin and displays a wide range of remarkable electronic and optical


that has potential to


replace silicon in modern computer chips,” Dr. Rana said. “Te materials we are investigating could also be used to fabricate new low power devices that will improve battery life in laptops and other handheld devices.”


He added that these materials


could potentially be used in higher-capacity cache memories, which are important in multi-core microprocessors and solid-state hard drives where the atomic-scale thickness could result in order- of-magnitude increase in storage capacity with smaller device size.


Te research into the electrical


and optical properties could also help lead to the development more sensitive night-vision cameras, gas sensors as well as faster metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor devices for various electronic detection and sensing applications.


Dr. Rana’s DSU team, the lead


researchers of this grant, will also collaborate with researchers from Pennsylvania State University on the project.


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