10:14 a.m., Dec. 9, 2010----Amanda Kate Gurnon, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won third place in the graduate student poster competition at the Society of Rheology's 82nd annual meeting.

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Co-advised by Norman Wagner, the Alvin B. and Julia O. Stiles Professor of Chemical Engineering and chairperson of the department, and John W. Gillespie, Jr., Donald C. Phillips Professor of Materials Science and director of the Center for Composite Materials at UD, her research focuses on shear thickening fluids and their use as an interlayer in armored vehicles.

Gurnon's poster, entitled Rheo-Physics of Shear Thickening Fluids during Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS), was selected from among 100 submissions. Posters were judged on research originality, work execution, scientific impact and presentation quality.

“We are very pleased to see another nationally recognized award being won by our graduate students -- showing just how competitive graduate programs are at UD,” said Wagner.

Rheology is a branch of mechanics that studies the deformation and flow of matter.

The Society of Rheology was officially formed on Dec. 9, 1929. It is one of the five founding members of the American Institute of Physics. The society sponsors a number of senior awards, including the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award, named in honor of a prominent UD faculty member.

Metzner, who died in 2006, was internationally recognized as a pioneer in the field of rheology and as a distinguished educator and researcher.

Article by Karen B. Roberts