Professor Alivisatos is selected as the recipient of the 2021 Priestley Medal American Chemical Society names Professor Paul Alivisatos 2021 Priestley medalist, the society’s highest honor. Read news story here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering…

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MSE’s own Professor Ting Xu was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. As part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Prof. Xu was recognized at PostdocFest – an event organized by the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association (BPA) in collaboration with the campus’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) program and the Vice Chancellor for Research – for her efforts in fostering…

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MSE’s own Professor R. Ramesh, together with his colleagues Profs. Agnes Barthelemy (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), Manuel Bibes (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), and Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich), has been named the Europhysics Prize 2022 winner for “seminal contributions to the physics and applications of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials.” The Europhysics Prize is awarded by…

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Congratulations, David Cook and Zehao He, on this well-deserved recognition! Your unwavering commitment and genuine passion for teaching have not only positively impacted the lives of your students but have also enriched our community as a whole. We are truly proud to have you as integral members of the department. David is a PhD student…

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The faculty in MSE are leaders in their fields and the 2022 edition of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list reflects this. To be named to the list, a researcher must have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their publications and be among the top 1% by citations in the fields in a publication year. For 2022, MSE faculty…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Program ranks #2 Best in 2021 U.S News Rankings! The 2021 US News and World Reports rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has been ranked number 2 in the nation! The complete rankings and link to more details can be found here. Contact Us Department offices are located…

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MSE 2022-2023 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.   Corrosion Award Mackinzie Farnell Bella Crouch Benjamin Lam   Departmental Citation Award Ayush Gupta   Elaine Shen Award Aishwarya Jayadeep Ayush Gupta Daniel Hawthorne  …

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