Ms. Nevin Naguib started her graduate studies at Drexel University three and a half years ago after obtaining her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois with the Highest Distinction and College Honors. She will be graduating soon with her Ph.D. degree. Ms. Naguib was the first graduate student to work in nanotechnology under Professor Yury Gogotsi’s supervision in Drexel University. The research group has now evolved to become the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, which cooperates with other scientists in the United States as well as in Germany and Japan. Nevin is working on modification and filling of carbon nanotubes as a first step to their usage in potential applications such as nanofluidic devices and nanocomposite reinforcements. Ms. Naguib’s research work is unique in that it is multidisciplinary in nature, combining materials science and chemistry in the nanoscale field. This field is an area of a great scientific interest and important potential industrial and medical applications.

For her outstanding achievements at Drexel University, Ms. Naguib was recognized by receiving many awards including best poster awards at Drexel University research day and American Society of Materials (ASM) Philadelphia Chapter. She also has received the NSF-IGERT Fellowship for two consecutive years, 2002 and 2003, the Koerner Fellowship in September 2001 as well as several travel grants to attend national and international conferences such as in Japan and in Turkey for which she received an NSF travel grant. In addition, Ms. Naguib won a $10,000 award for a business proposal she submitted applying nanotechnology/polymer chemistry in biomedical applications.

In the short period she has been at Drexel, Nevin coauthored a lot of papers publications, including papers in such high-profile journals as Advanced Materials, Chem. Phys. Lett. and Nanotechnology. She was also featured in October 2003 issue of Nature as well as the American Ceramics Society Bulletin.

In addition to Nevin’s outstanding academic achievements, her service to the university is impressive. She has served on a several departmental committees, including the Department Head search committee, several faculty search committees, just to name a few. Nevin has also largely contributed both the Materials Department’s and the College of Engineering’s recruitment of new students by going to public schools, running laboratory demonstrations and participating in open discussion sessions with high school students from the community and freshman here at the University. Nevin also organized the department seminars for a whole term. Nevin had been also a superuser for Drexel Raman facilities, which are one of the biggest Raman Facilities in the east coast with its wide range of wavelength and capabilities. Early this year, Nevin was able to establish the Materials Research Society (MRS) Chapter at Drexel University. This was very competitive since 8 major universities nation wide applied and only 2 got accepted, one of them is Drexel University. Nevin is the current president of the Chapter. Nevin was elected as the social organizer of the Materials Engineering Graduate Student Network where she has worked to improve the overall life at the graduate student and facilitate the interaction between the faculty members and the graduate students in her department.
 

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