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Record number of MSE students receive NSF fellowships
Twelve MSE-affiliated students earned NSF GRFPs, sailing past the previous record set two years ago.
TaeeUn Jun awarded selective CoE summer research award
The Wang Chu Chien-Wen Research Award will allow Jun, a rising senior, to study ternary nitride materials in the Sun Research Group this summer.
Four students earn Rackham scholarships for 2026-27
The prestigious fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.
Gabi Grey receives 2026 Towner Prize
Gabi Grey, a member of the Taub lab and current GSC president, is the 2026 recipient of the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement.
Student places first in ASME IMECE poster contest
A member of the Goldman group, Jakob Hammond-Renfro finished atop the UG division for his research, "Probing the Electronic States of Antimony Telluride Homologous Superlattices.”
Powering the next generation of nuclear energy
MSE alumna Rita Baranwal (MS MSE '96, PHD '98) is chief nuclear officer at Radiant, a start-up developing what could be the world's first mass-produced microreactor.
Tim Chambers receives 2026 MSE Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award
The annual award honors an MSE faculty member for his/her stellar performance in materials research, teaching, and service to the department.
MMS Travels to Minnesota for first-ever retreat
Eighteen students ventured to the Twin Cities over MLK Jr. Weekend to tour 3M and General Mills R&D centers, connect with MSE alums, and even watch U-M hockey defeat UMN.
Ashwin Shahani receives TMS-AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award
The award is presented annually to a young person in the broad fields of metallurgy and materials science for "exceptional promise of a successful career."
U-M, ASICS to launch $25M groundbreaking sport innovation initiative
The Japan-based sportswear company is launching its first-ever research hub in the U.S. MSE Professor Max Shtein will be a part of the center's interdisciplinary team working to advance human performance and sport science.
Model predicts best cooling and aging regimen to form strong alloys
A new multiscale materials modeling framework developed by the Qi group predicts microstructures to control the final strength of lightweight aluminum alloys for fuel-efficient vehicles.
Pena-Francesch named a 2025 Materials Today Rising Star
The Materials Today Rising Star Awards recognize researchers in MSE who have demonstrated exceptional talent and promise, and who have shown significant potential to become future leaders in their field.
$2.5M aluminum recycling research partnership aims to expand use in auto industry and beyond
U-M teams led by Alan Taub, Ashwin Shahani and John Allison to collaborate with Hydro, one of the world's largest aluminum companies.
MSE alum-founded start-up receives $1.5M NSF grant
Dr. Brian Iezzi (PHD '22) founded Fibarcode, a technology that embeds machine-readable barcodes into fabrics, from research he conducted as a member of the Shtein Lab.
Mich Governor reappoints Taub to state council
Taub's term on the Council on Future Mobility and Electrification has been extended to 2029.
Grace Pan to join MSE faculty
A graduate of Yale and Harvard, Dr. Pan’s research addresses novel material synthesis methods for optoelectronic functional materials, with an emphasis on materials for quantum computing.
Suk wins Outstanding Student Researcher Award
A member of the Li group, Suk's research experimentally measures how the current is distributed among individual particles during the charge and discharge of Li-ion batteries.
Quantum chemistry: Making key simulation approach more accurate
Density functional theory is limited by a mystery at its heart: the universal exchange-correlation functional. U-M researchers are trying to uncover it.
Mich Governor reappoints Taub to state council
Gretchen Whitmer recently announced that Taub's term on the Council on Future Mobility and Electrification has been extended to 2029.
'Undercooled' highlighted as top materials podcast
'Undercooled: A Materials Education' podcast, hosted by Steve Yalisove and Tim Chambers, was featured in a "podcasts to try" cover story in the September issue of TMS' JOM magazine.