2018 – Page 3 – Materials Science & Engineering

BEARS (University of California, Berkeley) and CARES (University of Cambridge) team up in a new intra-CREATE programme by Daisy Hernandez March 07, 2018 A three-year programme will bring together researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, the, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to develop ways of…

MSE Leads the Way in Safety at UC Berkeley by Daisy Hernandez February 27, 2018 The laboratory compound run by Professors Martin and Ramesh was named the winner of the UC Berkeley Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award in the Large Physical Sciences category. Professor Martin will represent the laboratory at the award ceremony in Feb.…

Hand in Hand: Using the handedness of X-rays to probe the handedness of electronic vortices by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences January 15, 2018 Chirality – or handedness – is an intriguing symmetry property in nature and it simply means that a chiral system is non-superposable on its mirror image. An example of a…

Professors Asta and Chrzan in New Leadership Roles by Daisy Hernandez January 1, 2018 Professor Asta ended his term as Department Chair of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) on January 1, and has assumed the role of Materials Sciences Division Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Asta’s leadership has been invaluable to MSE,…