MSE 2025 - 2026 Awards

Each year, the MSE department selects recipients for our various undergraduate and graduate awards, many based on nominations gathered from MSE students, faculty and staff.

 

Blumenkranz Fellowship

  • Niccolo Lena
  • Makaha Morishita
  • Michael Filgas
  • Malachi Stiers
  • Sela Murphy
  • Jessica Le Nguyen

Corrosion Award

  • Bryant Li
  • Nicolo Lena
  • Richard Kang

Didier De Fontaine Student Award in Theory and Computation

  • Max Gallant
  • Wenqing Wang

Departmental Citation Award

  • Duncan Ritchie

Elaine Shen Award

  • Michelle Jeong
  • Sanchay Gadia
  • Rachel Lee

Gareth Thomas Award

  • Sijia Ke

Jane Lewis Fellowship

  • Hyunshik Choi
  • Esha Goru
  • Kiera Tai

Jing Gui Award

  • Hwidong Jeon
  • Sanchay Gadia
  • Gauri Mutha
  • Ripeng Luo
  • Xu Huang
  • Rachel Lee
  • Yifan Pang
  • Moniruzzaman Jamal
  • Anthony Chen

Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Student Equity and Inclusion Fund
(formerly known as the Birgeneau Award)

  • Daphne Lucana
  • Iva Petrovic

Outstanding GSI Award

  • Matthew Kuner
  • Alexandre Bordas

Ross Tucker Award
This award alternates annually between MSE and EECS, with EECS selecting the recipient for 2025–2026.

 

Vedensky Award

  • Shilong Wang
  • Ripeng Luo