Priyanka Dash, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics under the advising of Professor Michael Lanagan, will travel to Italy in early 2013 to attend the EC1 Conference: Functional Glasses: Properties and Applications. While on travel, Priyanka will give a presentation entitled "Loco alkali glasses for high energy density applications." This EC1 conference will discuss recent advances in glass research as well as identifying the requirements that glass must satisfy for new and energy applications.