News & Events Archive

Former ATAMI Student Worker, now Ph. D. Physicist, Returns for Visit
This year ATAMI received an early Christmas present when former student worker, Raymond Ehlers, returned for a visit.  Raymond first worked at ATAMI in 2008 as part of the Saturday Academy program while he was still at Crescent Valley High School.  He then returned in 2011 while on summer break from Columbia University and changed out the diffusion pump on our vacuum hot press for the automated turbo pump system that is still in use today.  Raymond is now Dr. Ehlers after successfully defending his Ph. D. in high energy nuclear physics at Yale in 2019 (announcement: https://physics.yale.edu/news/raymond-ehlers-successfully-defends-thesis-jet-hadron-correlations-measured-pb-pb-collisions, dissertation: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2721341).  Dr. Ehlers is now starting his second postdoc continuing his work in Geneva using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.  His research is part of ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, which aims to understand the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma.  Dr. Ehlers' research was a little hard for us to grasp, but he gave an excellent description of his work and the instrumentation used for data collection during his visit.  We are all very impressed, but not at all surprised, with how far he has come.  Well done, Raymond!  We look forward to hearing of your continued success.

October 11, 2021 PR Newswire
"Crown Electrokinetics Acquires 10 Patents from IBM"
Crown Electrokinetics Corp., a leading smart glass technology company, has acquired 10 patents from IBM Corporation that complement its patent portfolio. Crown now has a patent portfolio of broad applicability in the smart glass technology area consisting of 34 patents and applications that offer coverage in key global markets.

September 17, 2021 The Oregonian
"Small Corvallis tech firm sells for a whopping sum: $514 million"
Inpria, an ATAMI tenant whose resist technology helps manufacture some of the most advanced computer chips, sold Friday for $514 million to JSR Corporation.  Inpria, which spun out of Oregon State University’s chemistry department in 2007, says it will retain its Corvallis operation at OSU's Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute facility, in addition to expanded manufacturing at JSR Facilities in Hillsboro and Beaverton.

August 25, 2020, OSU Newsroom
ATAMI is pleased to announce that the Northwest Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NNI), of which ATAMI is a participant, has received funding for another five years. The NNI is a partnership between OSU and University of Washington, and is a site within the larger NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

June 11, 2020, Business Insider
Crown Electrokinetics secures investment from Hudson Pacific Properties
Corvallis startup Crown Electrokinetics, with a novel approach to the growing smart glass industry, today announced Hudson Pacific Properties has invested in the company. Crown has been an ATAMI industry tenant since 2016. 

March 16, 2020, OSU School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Congratulations to ATAMI faculty member Dr. Brian Fronk, 2020 NSF Career Award recipient
Brian Fronk, assistant professor of mechanical engineering received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to support his work on methods for managing thermal energy in power cycles.

February 20, 2020, The Oregonian
Corvallis startup Inpria lands $31 million for next generation of computer chip
A Corvallis company helping to enable the next generation of semiconductor manufacturing technology has raised Oregon’s first big round of startup funding this year.

February 17, 2020, Gazette-Times
Corvallis company earns safety, health recognition
Valliscor LLC, a chemical manufacturing firm in Corvallis, has stepped up its commitment to on-the-job safety and health by completing its first year in Oregon OSHA’s Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program.

December 2017 Issue, RAPID Manufacturing Institute
RAPID Manufacturing Institute celebrates first anniversary! 
Just one year ago, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the formation of Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as the tenth member of the nation’s network of Manufacturing USA Institute

October 2017 Issue, Terra Magazine 
ATAMI space facilitates collision between startups and established companies 
At the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute, they (collisions) happen naturally, they’re going to happen more often, and their impacts are positive—for faculty and students, industry and Oregon’s economy.

October 2017 Podcast, Engineering Out Loud
Chemical bonds—Forging partnerships with Thailand's PTT 
Goran Jovanovic, professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State, was interested in finding ways to convert carbon dioxide into useful products using renewable energy. When the U.S. Department of Energy rejected a proposal in 2005, Jovanovic sent out an email to former Ph.D. students around the world, looking for potential collaborators.

February 2017 Issue, Terra Magazine 
Oregon State University professor of manufacuring engineering, Karl Haapala, talks about sustainable manufacturing
A growing swath of consumers who value economic, environmental and social responsibility are generating demand for sustainable products and practices. Manufacturers that don’t adapt risk losing market share.