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CEMS NEWS
Poerschke named McKnight Land-Grant Professor
Assistant Professor David Poerschke is among ten recipients of the 2022-2024 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. This University-wide program seeks
to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty members who have potential to make significant contributions to their departments and scholarly fields. Recipients were chosen based on merit, professional promise, quality of publication record, and originality and innovation in research achievements.
Poerschke was awarded for his research on accelerated design of new materials to survive
extreme environments. Meeting society’s energy
and environmental challenges requires resilient
new materials that possess the right combination of mechanical and functional properties, and the capability to survive high temperatures and stresses without melting, fracturing, or deteriorating. Poerschke’s group synthesizes new materials, measures their properties, and tests them in extreme environments. By coupling
CEMS Assistant Professor David Poerschke won a prestigious McKnight Land-Grand Professorship. Photo credit: Rebecca Slater, By Rebecca Studios.
these experiments with analytical and computational models to understand why materials fail, Poerschke’s research accelerates the discovery of durable new metal alloys, ceramics, and composites.
Kacey Gregerson elected Chair of NACADA Region 6
Kacey Gregerson
Congratulations to Kacey Gregerson, Senior Academic Advisor in CEMS, for being elected as Chair of NACADA Region 6! NACADA is
the global community for academic advising, and
the North Central Region 6 includes: Minnesota, Iowa, Manitoba, Nebraska, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and South Dakota.
this role after the NACADA Annual Conference at the end of October.
Kacey previously served as communications and awards chair for Region 6, and has also been involved with NACADA with the Advising Communities Division. Kacey created and served as chair of the NACADA Advising Community for Well-Being & Advisor Retention beginning in 2018 and will end her term as chair in October at
the Annual Conference. Because of her work with the Well-Being & Advisor Retention Advising Community, Kacey’s peers nominated and selected her to receive the Advising Communities Division Service Award for 2022 which will also be presented at the Annual Conference in October.
In this role, Kacey will be coordinating regional activities, attending division
meetings, and leading regional meetings. She will start
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