Congratulations to the WSU student team for being selected for the NASA Big Idea contest.

The team from WSU’s HYPER hydrogen research lab will be working with NOME and others to study the effect of leidenfrost to clean space suits. They will be using ash collected in Pullman from the Mt. St. Helens eruption as a lunar regolith simulant.

Congratulations team!  This story was picked up by WSU today also.

An article including video was also recently published in the Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Video: Another way to grieve—Oregon artist creates unique glass pieces from ash

Wow.. at least you can tell if you’re 6′ away from the next person.

Video: Glass-walled restrooms open to the public in Japan

Our productive collaboration with the UK University of Sheffield was featured recently by the Department of Energy – Nuclear Energy, on their website.

Deep learning provides deep help—researchers develop publicly available software for rational design of oxide glasses

A new book, definitely on my reading list.

Author Q&A: The Alchemy of Us explores our transformative relationship with materials

https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-the-perfect-mirror-physicists-confront-the-mystery-of-glass-20200402/