UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State researchers are invited to attend “After Café,” a casual, applications-centric series designed to raise awareness about the range of characterization assets available at the Materials Characterization Laboratory (MCL). This series will not focus on theory related to characterization. The MCL is a University-wide core user facility that supports research and the education of the next generation of qualified researchers. The MCL is not limited to materials-related research, though. In fact, in a typical year researchers from more than 45 departments across the Penn State research community leverage MCL resources for a variety of interdisciplinary research projects.

After Cafés will occur on select Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m. beginning Feb.13 through April 16 immediately following the Material Research Institute’s Millennium Café, a weekly exchange of ideas and challenges in the Millennium Science Complex’s Third Floor Commons.

More information can be found on the After Café web page.