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Accelerating the ceramic synthesis of a classic superconductor
The Sun group is leading an international team in developing a new computational model to design ceramic reactions, which can be broadly applied to accelerate the manufacturing and development of functional materials.
Harnessing the hum of fluorescent lights for more efficient computing
A team led by MSE Assistant Professor John Heron has developed a material that, in addition to computing, could also lead to better magnetic sensors for medical and security devices.
Yalisove, Chambers earn national teaching awards
Prof. Steve Yalisove received the American Society of Engineering Education's 2021 Michael Ashby Outstanding Materials Educator Award and Dr. Tim Chambers earned the 2021 New Materials Educator Award.
Two MSE PhD students receive 2021 NSF Fellowships
John Kim and Ahmad Matar Abed received the prestigious award for their outstanding research in the areas of conjugated polymers and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, respectively.
Remembering MSE faculty Jyoti Mazumder and Ed Hucke
Mazumder was a world leader in laser-based manufacturing while Hucke had a world-recognized reputation in research on carbon-based materials.
Hovden and Heron mark special career milestones
Both assistant professors recently had their first Ph.D. students graduate.
Two PhD students receive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Sieun Chae (Heron) and Brian Iezzi (Shtein) won the prestigious award for their exceptionally creative, ambitious and impactful dissertations.
Four MSE faculty/alumni earn 2021 TMS awards
All were officially recognized at the virtual TMS Annual Meeting last week.
Shahani recipient of 2021 Outstanding Accomplishment Award
The annual faculty award recognizes stellar performance in materials research, teaching and service to MSE.
Paul Krajewski authors second children's book
Dr. Paul Krajewski's "What's in Your Body?" explains how the elements of the periodic table are incorporated into the body.
U-M Battery Lab to join Michigan Materials Research Institute
The move will help drive production-level research into next-gen solid-state battery technologies.
MSE hosting exclusive screening of "Picture a Scientist" March 12
An official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, "Picture a Scientist" explores gender inequality across the sciences.
Andani and Dhyani win 2021 Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
Mohsen Taheri Andani (Misra) and Abhishek Dhyani (Tuteja) were two of six MSE-affiliated students recognized recently at CoE's Engineering Research Symposium.
2020 Van Vlack Lecturer: M. Stanley Whittingham, recipient of 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The official celebration of the lectureship has been rescheduled for October 8, 2021.
Shahani guest co-editor of MRS Bulletin and featured speaker of related webinar
The webinar, "Processing Metallic Materials Far From Equilibrium" will be held this Wednesday, November 25.
Three Heron group projects receive combined $900k+ in funding
The new funding gives a boost to the Heron group's goals of designing otherwise unstable complexes in correlated oxides, advancing transformative performance in memory and logic devices, and realizing chemically identical yet electronically distinct nanoscale thin film superlattices of materials.