"Last Thanksgiving, Janice and I invited over a group of our fellow graduate students who were staying in Baltimore for the holiday. It is my experience that the community of graduate students in the Materials Science and Engineering Department are a close knit group who are always willing to lend a helping hand whether it’s in the lab doing research or out of the lab deciding where to hang out in one of Baltimore's many welcoming neighborhoods."

Travis DeJournett is a PhD Candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department working in the lab of Professor Spicer. Travis DeJournett received a NASA GSRP fellowship to study the microstructural, chemical, and optical properties of high temperature nanocomposites that are used in the satellite’s heat shield.