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Tresa Pollock Receives Lee Hsun Award
AFOSR-MURI Program on Hyperspectral and Extreme Light Diagnostics for Defense-Critical Advanced Materials and Processes
Jonathan Madison Receives MLK Spirit Award
David Martin elected as AIMBE Fellow
Green, Pollock 2006 Society Presidents
Jinsang Kim receives 2006 Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Award
Materials for the Six Million Dollar Man
New Course for Winter 2007 - MSE 493: Energy, Light, Visualization
Nature Materials reports: Two Steps to Densify …
Jinsang Kim received 2007 NSF CAREER Award
Wayne Jones to help ADVANCE efforts
Joerg Lahann wins Nano Young Investigator Award from AIChE
MSE Professors Spin New Ventures
Two MSE Faculty Receive Solar America Initiative Funding
Jones and Thornton receive 2008 TMS Awards
Jonathan Madison named 2008 Graduate Student of the Year by NSBE
Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation
Fluorescent organic nanoparticles help illuminate cellular proteins
Versatile coating for biomedical devices lets them interact with live cells
2008 Imaging Microstructure Contest Winners
Sharon Glotzer to Receive Stine Award from AIChE
Researchers Identify a New Mechanism for Grain Boundary Diffusion
Remembering Professor Frank Filisko
Announcing the 2009 Imaging Microstructure Contest
2009 Imaging Microstructure Contest Winners
Tresa Pollock Elected TMS Fellow
Green to Lead $19.5M DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) at Michigan
Yu Jin Wins Michigan AVS Student Poster Award
Katsuyo Thornton Receives NSF CAREER Award
Anton Van der Ven Receives NSF CAREER Award
Max Shtein Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
John Halloran Appointed Editor-in-Chief of JACerS
Ron Gibala Receives 2010 ASM Albert Sauveur Achievement Award
Congratulations May 2009 Graduating Seniors
Akram Boukai Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Anish Tuteja Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Welcome Incoming Graduate Students
Entropy Alone Creates Complex Crystals From Simple Shapes
John Smith Joins UM MSE faculty
Joanna Millunchick receives College of Engineering John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award
Remembering Donald N. Frey - Designer of the Mustang
Wayne Jones Receives 2010 ASM Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award
John Allison Joins MSE Faculty
Forcing mismatched elements together could yield better solar cells
Anish Tuteja Awarded Young Investigator Program from AFOSR
Emmanuelle Marquis Joins MSE Faculty
Petascale Faculty Position
Van der Ven Receives College of Engineering 1938E Award
Goldman Receives College of Engineering Service Award
Allison Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Organic phosphorescent crystals: A new light-emitting material
Kotov Named One of Top 100 Chemists in Last 10 Years
Fundamental discovery could lead to better memory chips
Heart of the Solution - Energy Frontiers
New fluorescent OLEDs display greater efficiencies than believed possible
Sharon Glotzer named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pierre Ferdinand Poudeu Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Manos Kioupakis Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Materials Research Society Names Peter F. Green as Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of MRS Communications
Xiaoqing Pan named ACerS Fellow
Researchers watch a next-gen memory bit switch in real time
Rick Laine named ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Fellow
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Nerve gas litmus test could sense airborne chemical weapons
Green Group develops new smart fluid
Rachel Goldman named Fellow of the AVS
Tuteja Group develops smart filter that strains oil out of water
John Allison Leads DoE Software Innovation Center
Alan Taub Joins UM MSE as Professor
Kim group develops practical way to predict and modulate conjugated polymer's energy levels
U-Michigan part of $120M DoE battery research hub
Tuteja Group Develops Superomniphobic Surfaces
Eight MSE Faculty Have Projects Funded by MCubed
Kim group published Nature Materials about high performance paint-on plastic electronics
Rachel S. Goldman Named 2012 APS Fellow
Katherine Sebeck Named J. Robert Beyster Computational Innovation Graduate Fellows
Rick Laine Receives SPJS International Award
Poudeu group uses nano-engineering to boost efficiency of materials that convert waste heat to electrical energy
Manos Kioupakis receives NSF CAREER Award
Geeta Mehta joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
High-tech manufacturing hub could create 10,000 jobs
Anish Tuteja receives NSF CAREER Award
Nanowires for greener LEDs
Professor Steve Yalisove awarded Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize
Amit Misra Named MSE Department Chair
Sharon Glotzer elected to National Academy of Sciences
John Allison Named TMS Fellow
Toward ultimate light efficiency on the cheap
Dylan Bayerl awarded Beyster Graduate Fellowship
Glotzer and Kotov co-recipients of MRS Medal
ArborLight wins Emerging Luminary award from DoE
Jinsang Kim group developed heat-conducting plastics
Liang Qi joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Beyond Silicon: New Semiconductor Moves "Spintronics" Toward Reality
Ultra-small block M’s lead to big ideas in drug delivery
Katsuyo Thornton Receives TMS Distinguished Service Award
Olga Shalev receives Best Poster Award at Fall 2014 MRS Meeting
The Kim Lab Made Light Up Supercooled Liquid
Forrest, Glotzer named Distinguished University Professors
Regenerative medicine: Injectable stem cell incubator
Course asks students to imagine the campus of the future
Rick Laine Named American Chemical Society Fellow
Art-inspired solar cells
Scanning Thermoelectric Microscopy Locates Extra Electrons Outside Quantum Dots
John Halloran Elected to World Academy of Ceramics
MSE Faculty Part of Senate Effort to Reauthorize America COMPETES Act
Laine Spinoff Wins 2015 Governor of Michigan’s Green Chemistry Award
Peter Green named AAAS Fellow
The Kim group finds the roles of molecular motions in room temperature phosphorescence
John Heron joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Morphological Disorder Affects Charge Carrier Movement in Conjugated Polymer Films
Joanna Millunchick Named Bicentennial Professor
Five Faculty Receive College of Engineering Awards
MRS, TMS recognize Amit Misra
Joanna Millunchick Named Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Spray-on Coating Could Ice-proof Airplanes, Power Lines, Windshields
Alan Taub elected Councillor of National Academy of Engineering
The Kim group developed stimuli-sensitive polymers for Efficient Capture and Release of Circulating Tumor Cells
Liz Holm gives inaugural MSE Distinguish Alumni Lecture
Ashwin Shahani joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
"Atomic Sandwiches" Could Make Computers 100X Greener
MSE Faculty Position Opening
Aaron Crumm (MSE '97, Ph.D. '00) Receives 2016 MSE Alumni Merit Award
Rachel Goldman Honored with University Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award
Graduate Student Symposium Winners
Apoorv Shanker Receives MRS Graduate Student Silver Award at Fall 2016 Meeting
Robert Hovden Joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
MSE Faculty Receive College Awards
Sharon Glotzer Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society
Three MSE Professors Honored with 2017 TMS Awards & Honors
Aeriel Murphy Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
Quantum Limits to Heat Flow Observed at Room Temperature
Geeta Mehta Named Dow Corning Assistant Professor
Open-source Software Unlocks 3-D View of Nanomaterials
A Self-healing, Water-repellent Coating That’s Ultra Durable
Professor Wayne Jones’ exceptional 39-year career honored at retirement celebration
Azia Harris-Martin wins prestigious Rumler Prize
Azia Harris-Martin speech
Joanna Millunchick named associate dean for undergrad education
Goldman Lab: ‘Magic’ alloy could spur the next generation of solar cells
‘Xplore’ activities show fun (and delicious) side of MSE
MSE a part of local - and nation’s largest - elementary Science Olympiad
Summer school provides ‘incredible experience’ for educators learning computational MSE
Kim group developed a new way to make heat-conducting plastics
Goldman Lab develops nanoparticles that could spur better LEDs, invisibility cloaks
Bionic heart tissue: U-Michigan part of $20M center
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Printed meds could reinvent pharmacies, drug research
MSE Assistant Professor Ashwin Shahani wins the AFOSR Young Investigator Research Award
Advanced manufacturing lab opens in Detroit
Turning waste heat into emissions-free electricity
Discover Engineering 2017: Breaking in students to careers in MSE
Nine earn graduate symposium awards
Profs. Thornton, Mazumder, named TMS award winners
Fighting Cancer with Cancer: 3D cultured cells could drive precision therapy
Congratulations to our Engineering Graduate Symposium winners!
Atomistic calculations predict that boron incorporation increases the efficiency of LEDs
U-M grad student wins gold medal from Materials Research Society
Article: Controlling dislocation near material surfaces with atomic segregation
Electricity, eel-style: Soft power cells could run tomorrow’s implantables
Metals that court chaos could be the future of computing (video)
MSE's Katsuyo Thornton part of team whose Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries
Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
Holography and LIDAR on the cheap with nanoparticle gel
Now Showing in 3D: Quasicrystal Growth and Dissolution
Materials Science of Chocolate: Tasting the Difference
MSE graduate Kevin Golovin receives coveted Distinguished Dissertation Award
Katsuyo Thornton named the L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Grad students take MSE lessons to middle school classroom
Aeriel Murphy wins Rackham's Lipschutz Award
Shahani receives 2nd Young Investigator Program Award
Keara Saud wins coveted NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
“Everything-repellent” coating could kid-proof phones, homes
Postdoc Nancy Senabulya receives prestigious AAUW Fellowship
Forrest elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Katsuyo Thornton named ASM Fellow
President of Nanyang Technology University & former NSF director Subra Suresh to be 2018 Van Vlack Lecturer
Thornton inducted as L.H. and F.E. Van Vlack Professor of MSE (Photos/video)
Allison receives CoE's inaugural Staff-Faculty Partnership Award
The material that could power tomorrow's solar cells
Kim tapped as new director of MACRO program
Bigelow elected Fellow of Microanalysis Society
Twenty-four MSE students earn scholarships for 2018-19
MSE UNDERGRAD PROGRAM RANKED #2 IN U.S.
2018 Van Vlack Lecture draws one of world's top MSE scholars and researchers
Nik Chawla (PHD '97) receives Distinguished Alumnus Award
Max Madden receives 2018 Alumni Merit Award for MSE
MSE and ME faculty partner in a new $12.5M DOE Center for Research Excellence in Additively Manufactured Metallic Alloys for National Security
Taub named TMS Fellow
Materials Research Symposium 2018 - Award Winners
Misra named AAAS fellow
Inaugural Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship in Materials Processing features speaker Ron Radzilowski
GSC's Food Drive Competition nets $1,000+ for Food Gatherers
Remembering Professor Emeritus William F. Hosford
Three faculty selected for 2018-19 College of Engineering Awards
Hosford Memories
An upgrade for open-source, 3-D nanoscale imaging software
Poudeu earns Faculty Outstanding Accomplishment Award
Shahani receives NSF CAREER Award
Goldman elected Vice Chair of Division of Materials Physics
Glotzer elected to the National Academy of Engineering
MMS wins 2019 Elaine Harden Award
Three Faculty RECEIVE NSF CAREER AWARDS
PhD students organized successful symposium at TMS Annual Meeting
Misra reappointed MSE Chair
Bigelow elected Fellow of Microscopy Society of America
Kioupakis first recipient of the Karl F. and Patricia J. Betz Family Faculty Scholar Award
Bushick awarded DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Three PhD students receive prestigious Rackham Fellowship
Ice-proofing big structures with a “beautiful demonstration of mechanics”
Two PhD students awarded NSF Fellowships
Mehta receives major grant from American Cancer Society for ovarian cancer research
New discovery by Poudeu team could pave way to improved thermoelectric materials
Mehta lab seeks to improve bioengineering models for precision medicine
Poudeu group's findings could shed light on new ways to create high-Tc ferromagnetism in semiconductors
Taub named SME Fellow
Cancer is smarter than you think: Q&A with Geeta Mehta
MSE alum Rita Baranwal new Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy
Immortal switches, quantum computers could stem from new semiconductor
U-M launches Michigan Materials Research Institute
2019 Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship to feature Diran Apelian
MSE Faculty Position
grad SWE, led by MSE students, receives global recognition
Yalisove wins award for outstanding contributions to materials education
The "Magic Ratio" that could power tomorrow's solar cells
MIT's Frances M. Ross to headline this year's Van Vlack Lectureship
Newly discovered connection could help design of nextgen alloys
Wenhao Sun joins MSE Faculty
Kirigami sensor patch for shoulders could improve injury recovery, athletic training
Cracking the mystery of nature’s toughest material
Pehlke leaves lasting legacy
Frances Ross, electron microscopy celebrated at 2019 Van Vlack Lecture
Diran Apelian featured as second Robert D. Pehlke Lecturer
Materials Research Symposium winners announced
Post-silicon computing gets one step closer
Mengle wins CoE's Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD research
U-M part of team developing new, high-performance eutectic materials with 'abundant' applications
Lydia Mensah wins MLK Spirit Award
How an age-old process could lead to new materials and even invisibility
Ben Derby earns Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement
Alan Taub wins TMS Research to Industrial Practice Award
Kathleen Chou named AIME Henry deWitt Smith Scholar
Research Team with Kioupakis and Hovden receives $1 million grant
Stronger, stiffer, greener: Carbon-negative natural-fiber composites
Covid-19 update: all MSE spring events canceled
Searching Lightweight and High-Stiffness Glasses by Machine Learning
Misra bestowed with named collegiate professorship
Shahani's first defense marks career milestone
MSE steps up to take on the medical ppe shortage
Three MSE students win Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
Phd defense marks 'once-in-a-lifetime' event for Yang and Qi
Team from (MC)2 wins 2020 excellence in staff service award
Journal features Wenhao Sun in "Emerging Investigator" series
COPING WITH COVID: Rachel Goldman on teaching MSE 250 remotely
Bladesmithing Team Attends TMS 2020
COPING WITH COVID: 480 Capstone Design course does a 180
Sun receives D.O.E. Early Career Award
COVID-19 is laying waste to many U.S. recycling programs
MSE Career Fair 2020 slated for September 22
MSE scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials
$2M NSF grant gives personalized medicines project shot in the arm
New advanced neuromorphic computing could reduce the energy of machine learning by 1000 times
Marquis receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award
DOE renews PRISMS Center for third term with $7M
GSC Outreach adapts to virtual format
Three Tuteja projects land $8.8M in combined funding from DOE and ONR
“Probing Phase Transformations and Twinning Across Length Scales Using 3D X-Ray Microscopy”
Discovery of 13-atom clusters could mean control in manufacturing materials far-from-equilibrium
Three Heron group projects receive combined $900k+ in funding
Shahani guest co-editor of MRS Bulletin and featured speaker of related webinar
2020 Van Vlack Lecturer: M. Stanley Whittingham, recipient of 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Andani and Dhyani win 2021 Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
Four MSE faculty/alumni earn 2021 TMS awards
MSE hosting exclusive screening of "Picture a Scientist" March 12
U-M Battery Lab to join Michigan Materials Research Institute
Shahani recipient of 2021 Outstanding Accomplishment Award
Two PhD students receive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Hovden and Heron mark special career milestones
Remembering MSE faculty Jyoti Mazumder and Ed Hucke
Two MSE PhD students receive 2021 NSF Fellowships
Harnessing the hum of fluorescent lights for more efficient computing
Accelerating the ceramic synthesis of a classic superconductor
PhD Student's hybrid transistor earns Best Poster Award
Spreading AI the excitement of science to the next generation
2019 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Stan Whittingham lecture Oct. 8
Chao selected for D.O.E.'s Graduate Student Research Program
John Allison part of national team helping to democratize access to data
Resurrecting quasicrystals: findings may make an exotic material commercially viable
How Pearls Achieve Nanoscale Precision
Materials tour created by MSE students now running at UMMA
Successful MMRI Symposium takes on 21st century challenges
Seven earn best poster honors at inaugural MMRI Symposium
Spray-on coating could make solar panels snow-resistant
Five earn 2021 Staff Service Awards
Misra recognized as Edward DeMille Campbell Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
McIntyre and Vogel receive 2021 CoE Staff Incentive Awards
Richardson receives 2022 MLK Spirit Award
Quantum tech: Semiconductor "flipped" to insulator above room temperature
Goldman named 2021 AAAS Fellow
Heron recipient of 2022 MSE Faculty Outstanding Accomplishment Award
Hilgendorf, Worth celebrate 25 years with MSE
Chambers receives CoE's Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award
Taub named Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering
Four MSE students win Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships
Nobel laureate Stanley Whittingham to present lecture May 23 in Hill Auditorium
Four MSE-affiliated students win NSF Fellowships
Kotov elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Whittingham delivers historic Van Vlack Lecture
Shahani earns two professional society awards
Taub installed as Robert H. Lurie Professor of Engineering
Elizabeth Holm named next MSE chair
Chao receives computational innovation graduate fellowship
Sun receives prestigious Dreyfus Foundation Award
MSE Contingent attends international solid-state conference
Durable coating kills the COVID virus and other germs in minutes
Heat-resistant nanophotonic material could help turn heat into electricity
Yiyang Li receives Intel's Rising Star Faculty Award
Wei Lu Named Distinguished University Innovator of the Year
Faculty Opening: Inorganic Functional Materials
Avinava Roy and Yu-Chen Yang receive Rackham International Student Fellowships
Yiyang Li's research highlighted in IEEE Spectrum
Liz Holm takes over as department chair
Joerg Lahann honored as AAAS Fellow
Photonic fibers borrow from butterfly wings to enable invisible, indelible sorting labels
Wenhao Sun named Dow Corning Assistant Professor
Lim and Moy receive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships
Kyle Bushick honored with two Towner Prizes
Tuteja's anti-frost coatings project receives CNAP funding
Four faculty earn 2023 TMS Awards
Virgil Watkins: Unparalleled Performance
Falon Fletcher attends NSBE Conference
Goldman selected to receive $7.5M MURI Award
11 students win poster awards at MMRI Symposium
MSE celebrates several NSF GRFP award winners
Amanda Wang receives NDSEG Award
Alan Taub tapped to lead new $130M U-M EV Center
$7.5M to harness atomic-scale defects for next-generation information processing
Amit Misra to lead Michigan Materials Research Institute
Goldman lands $18M grant for new Center for Materials Innovation
Cracking in lithium-ion batteries speeds up electric vehicle charging
Robert Hovden receives DOE Early Career Award
Guiding the design of silicon devices with improved efficiency
Holm heading up search committee for new Dean
U-M to lead $30 million complex-particle center
Rachel S. Goldman named Maria Goeppert Mayer Collegiate Professor
Hailey McKenna receives DOE SCGSR Award
$2M to fast track stronger alloys
Claudia Loebel receives Packard Fellowship to study cellular memory
Rick Laine recognized with EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Award
Bushick receives NERSC Early-Career Achievement Award
Material simulation with quantum accuracy wins Gordon Bell Prize
Professorship Installation Ceremony
Sun group resolves 200-year-old geology mystery
Jingxian Li and Jinhong Min honored with 2023 MRS Graduate Student Awards
Sustainable synthesis route of hyaluronic acid polymers for biomedical applications
Combining atomistic simulations and machine learning to predict grain boundary segregation in magnesium alloys
Abdon Pena-Francesch receives AFOSR YIP Award
Squishy, metal-free magnets to power robots and guide medical implants
Beating the freeze: Up to $11.5M for eco-friendly control over ice and snow
Claudia Loebel receives 2023 Crosby Award
Avinava Roy first in MSE to receive AHA fellowship
Robert D. Pehlke Lectureship: "Translational biomedical engineering"
New class of 2D material displays stable charge density wave at room temperature
MSE in Oscar-winning blockbuster "Oppenheimer"
Three MSE PhD students receive Rackham Predoctoral Awards
Anish Tuteja honored by College with faculty research award
Better battery manufacturing: Robotic lab vets new reaction design strategy
First high-resolution 3D nanoscale chemical imaging achieved with multi-modal tomography
Jonathan Goettsch receives DOE SCGSR award
Kyle Bushick named 2024 Howes Scholar in Computational Science
Research at Scale: Funding for materials centers tops $200M
AI chips could get a sense of time
Seven students receive 2024 NSF GRFP awards
Joonsoo Kim wins MRS Graduate Student Gold Award
Amanda Wang earns best paper award at IWGO
First 3D visualization of an aluminum nanocomposite for the auto industry
19 participate in MRSEC CMI summer research projects
Unraveling the fundamental principles of eutectic solidification with real-time, nanoscale imaging
Solving a memristor mystery to develop efficient, long-lasting memory devices
Yiyang Li receives Young Faculty Award from DARPA
This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
Liz Holm receives endowed professorship title
MSE undergrad program ranked #4 in U.S.
"Loose Ions on Disordered Landscape: An Enabling Paradigm for New All Solid State Batteries"
Po-Yu Kung receives international students fellowship
Annual food drive for Food Gatherers runs through Dec. 9
Burned rice hulls could help batteries store more charge
Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F
Faster organic phosphorescence for better display tech
Ashwin Shahani honored by White House with PECASE
Dongjae Shin receives scholarship from SVCF
MI gov names Alan Taub to future Mobility & Electrification council
Senior Trevor Balduck's "A Material World" on display in Pierpont
Liz Holm elected to National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Tim Chambers receives Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award
Three MSE PhD students receive Rackham Predoctoral Awards
Jinsang Kim named Raoul Kopelman Collegiate Professor of Science & Engineering
Amit Misra named editor-in-chief of MRS Bulletin
Two MSE-affiliated students receive NSF Fellowships
Pena-Francesch receives PMSE YIP Award
Marcel Chlupsa and Amanda Wang receive DOE SCGSR awards
PhD defense: “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analysis of Crystal Growth in Unconventional Supersaturated Solutions”
A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity
First quantum-mechanical model of quasicrystals reveals why they exist
New blue fluorophore breaks efficiency records in both solids and solutions
Jinhong Min receives ECS Summer Fellowship
First 3D look at ductility-boosting ‘twinning’ behavior in lightweight magnesium alloy
Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
Conquering Disorder: Modeling a solid with liquid-like ion movement
Quantum chemistry: Making key simulation approach more accurate
Suk wins Outstanding Student Researcher Award
MSE awards nearly $250k in scholarships to undergrads
'Undercooled' highlighted as top materials podcast
Grace Pan to join MSE faculty
Mich Governor reappoints Taub to state council
Mich Governor reappoints Taub to state council
MSE alum-founded start-up receives $1.5M NSF grant
$2.5M aluminum recycling research partnership aims to expand use in auto industry and beyond
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