John Heron joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor

John Heron joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Winter 2016.

John studied Physics as an undergraduate at...

The Kim group finds the roles of molecular motions in room temperature phosphorescence

In a development that could hasten the advent of low-cost, high-efficiency LEDs and solid-state lighting, a group of University of Michigan researchers has developed a...

Peter Green named AAAS Fellow

Peter Green, the Vincent T. and Gloria M. Gorguze Professor of Engineering, professor of materials science and engineering, macromolecular science and engineering, and chemical engineering,...

Laine Spinoff Wins 2015 Governor of Michigan’s Green Chemistry Award

The Governor of Michigan’s Green Chemistry Award 2015 goes to Professor Rick Laine’s company (Mayaterials) for developing a process to convert agricultural waste (e.g. rice...

Jay Whitacre receives College of Engineering Arbor Networks Ph.D. Research Impact Award

Jay Whitacre, Masters (1997) and Ph.D. (1999) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, was named the Arbor Networks Ph.D. Research Impact Lecture...

Don Nolan receives 2015 MSE Department Alumni Merit Award

Don Nolan joined Kennametal Inc. in November 2014 as President and Chief Executive Officer.

At the forefront of advanced materials innovation for more than...

MSE Faculty Part of Senate Effort to Reauthorize America COMPETES Act

MSE Faculty members Stephen Forrest and Alan Taub participated in a U.S. Senate roundtable discussion Tuesday on reauthorizing the America COMPETES Act.

"We were...

John Halloran Elected to World Academy of Ceramics

John Halloran has been named as part of the World Academy of Ceramics 2015 class of Academians.

Individuals who have made an internationally renown...

MSE Alumnus Jay Whitacre Receives Lemelson-MIT Prize

University of Michigan Materials Science Engineering alum Jay Whitacre (ME ’97, PhD ’99), has received the 2015 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his work inventing the...

Scanning Thermoelectric Microscopy Locates Extra Electrons Outside Quantum Dots

Semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) can be used to enhance the performance of a variety of devices encompassing optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and alternative energy technologies. Often, a...

Art-inspired solar cells

Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy...

Rick Laine Named American Chemical Society Fellow

Professor Rick Laine has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) as part of the 2015 class.  

The ACS Fellows Program recognize...

Course asks students to imagine the campus of the future

If you want to transform the campus learning experience to suit the needs of today's students, who better to ask what that should look like...

Regenerative medicine: Injectable stem cell incubator

Some tissue damage is too extensive for the body to heal well, such as a bad slipped disc or the muscle death that follows a...

Forrest, Glotzer named Distinguished University Professors

Stephen Forrest and Sharon Glotzer are among nine faculty members have received one of the University of Michigan's top honors as Distinguished University Professors.

The...