Dr. Neeraj Nepal has received a best poster award from the Material Research Society’s (MRS) Fall Meeting in December.  Dr. Nepal was accompanied by Dr. John Zavada and Dr. Salah Bedair of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Dr. Nada El-Masry, Dr. M. Oliver Luen, and Pavel Frajtag of Material Science Engineering.

The poster, titled "Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in GaMnN Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor Devices," was just one of the winners out of total of 686 at the meeting.  Other winners came from universities such as National Taiwan University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University.

The 2009 MRS Fall Meeting was November 30 – December 4 in Boston, Massachusetts. The increasingly cross-disciplinary worldwide activity on materials research culminates every year in the MRS Fall Meetings. Symposium organizers from around the world created a program that addresses leading-edge research and captures the extraordinary progress in materials science and technology, featuring an exciting mix of well-established and popular topics.