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.

Three Tuteja projects land $8.8M in combined funding from DOE and ONR

Associate Professor Anish Tuteja's group is a partner in three projects that have recently been awarded a combined $10M in funding from ONR and DOE....

Discovery of 13-atom clusters could mean control in manufacturing materials far-from-equilibrium

In their latest research, the Shahani group upends conventional wisdom by showing that quasicrystals grow dendritically from a solid phase precursor, not just under a liquid-to-solid transition.

GSC Outreach adapts to virtual format

Undeterred in their mission to teach materials science to the next generation of scientists and engineers, GSC outreach teams overcome challenges to conduct lessons virtually.

DOE renews PRISMS Center for third term with $7M

The renewed funding for PRISMS brings the total to $26M through 2023.

Marquis receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award

Professor Emmanuelle Marquis was honored with the prestigious award at a virtual ceremony October 19.

Peterson and Mortensen join MSE External Advisory Board

MSE is pleased to welcome two new External Advisory Board members: Irene Peterson (PHD '95)...

New advanced neuromorphic computing could reduce the energy of machine learning by 1000 times

An interview with Assistant Professor Yiyang Li, MSE's newest faculty member

$2M NSF grant gives personalized medicines project shot in the arm

A cross-disciplinary U-M research team, led by MSE Professor Max Shtein, seeks to make telemedicine better and dramatically less expensive than current in-person medicine.

MSE scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials

The Kioupakis and Poudeu groups collaborated on a recently published paper on the theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of a new class of materials.

MSE Career Fair 2020 slated for September 22

Student organizers of this year's event -- to be held virtually -- anticipate the most diverse, relevant Career Fair to date.

COVID-19 is laying waste to many U.S. recycling programs

In a newly published article, authors Brian Love and Julie Rieland discuss the challenges facing the recycling sector and growing distrust of secondhand goods.

Sun receives D.O.E. Early Career Award

Wenhao Sun’s research group is leveraging high-throughput density functional theory, applied thermodynamics, and materials informatics to develop new predictive theories of inorganic materials synthesis.

COPING WITH COVID: 480 Capstone Design course does a 180

When the Covid crisis hit campus and closed labs, instructors Alan Taub and Max Shtein quickly revamped the course to give student teams the option to design Covid-related products.

COPING WITH COVID: Rachel Goldman on teaching MSE 250 remotely

A Q&A with Professor Rachel S. Goldman reveals the importance of building a robust remote learning community, including mailing hands-on activities to students' homes.