Welcome Incoming Graduate Students

We are pleased to present the Fall 2009 incoming MSE gradaute students, including 23 Ph.D. and 10 M.S. students.  Our new class comes from institutions...

Anish Tuteja Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor

Anish Tuteja has accepted a faculty appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and will assume the position of assistant professor.

Tuteja earned...

Akram Boukai Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor

Akram Boukai has joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an assistant professor. His plans are to develop a program for Innovative...

Ron Gibala Receives 2010 ASM Albert Sauveur Achievement Award

Ron Gibala has been selected to receive the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award for 2010. The citation reads:

"For seminal research on interstitial solutes in metals;...

Green to Lead $19.5M DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) at Michigan

The University of Michigan will be home to an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) that will explore new materials to better convert solar energy to...

Yu Jin Wins Michigan AVS Student Poster Award

Yu Jin, a graduate student in Professor Rachel Goldman's group, won the Michigan Student Poster Award at the 2009 Michigan AVS Spring Symposium for her...

Congratulations May 2009 Graduating Seniors

At commencement on May 2, 33 undergraduates received degrees from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.  These students are now start their careers with...

Tresa Pollock Elected TMS Fellow

Professor Tresa Pollock has been inducted as a Fellow of TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society).  She was nominated for her "seminal contributions...

Anton Van der Ven Receives NSF CAREER Award

Assistant professor Anton Van der Ven has been awarded the Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for research...

Katsuyo Thornton Receives NSF CAREER Award

Katsuyo Thornton, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the Early Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Award...

Max Shtein Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists

Max Shtein received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Shtein is one of  67 researchers from across the...

2009 Imaging Microstructure Contest Winners

The department is pleased to announce below the winners of the 2009 Imaging Microstructure Contest. The Grand Prize winners are Alejandro Perez-Bergquist (Scientific Merit) and...

John Halloran Appointed Editor-in-Chief of JACerS

Professor John Halloran has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. JACerS is among the top sources for ceramic materials science...

Announcing the 2009 Imaging Microstructure Contest

Remembering Professor Frank Filisko

It is with great sadness that we report that our friend and colleague, Frank Edward Filisko, died on November 11, 2008, after a two-year battle...