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Four MSE faculty/alumni earn 2021 TMS awards

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

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

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.
Maisel receives NSF CAREER Award

Maisel receives NSF CAREER Award

Katharina Maisel (BSE '10), now an assistant professor in the Bioengineering Department at Johns Hopkins University, recently received a 2021 NSF CAREER Award, the National...

U-M Battery Lab to join Michigan Materials Research Institute

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

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.
Weissman named Best in State Wealth Advisor by Forbes

Weissman named Best in State Wealth Advisor by Forbes

Proof that MSE degrees prepare people for a wide variety of successful careers, Neil Weissman (BSE '95) was recently named one of the Best in...

Andani and Dhyani win 2021 Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research

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.
Bowman recognized by The American Ceramic Society for service

Bowman recognized by The American Ceramic Society for service

In December, Keith Bowman (PHD '87) was selected for Volunteer Spotlight, a program through which The American Ceramic Society recognizes a member who demonstrates outstanding...

2020 Van Vlack Lecturer: M. Stanley Whittingham, recipient of 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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

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

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

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

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

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.