by Materials Science and Engineering April 26, 2013 Professor Bragg was honored with a Professional Achievement Award from his alma mater, the Illinois Institute of Technology.  This is in addition to the Trailblazer Award he received last September from the IIT African American Alumni Association.  The Professional Achievement Award honors those alumni whose achievements in…

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OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES OVERVIEW The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California equips its students for successful careers in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. Whether your goal is to join the workforce with a Bachelor’s degree, or to further your education in graduate school, our program is ideal. The…

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The American Physical Society (APS) is a professional society that represents over 55,000 members including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application…

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Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng)The Berkeley Master of Engineering is an accelerated degree designed to develop professional engineering leaders of the future who understand the technical, economic, and social issues of technology. Berkeley Master of Engineering in M.S.E. The Berkeley MEng degree brings together expertise in a technical specialization with leadership, business, marketing, finance, and…

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MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Phillip Messersmith were selected as members of the class of 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellows. MRS, one of the premier professional societies in materials science, bestows the title of MRS Fellow only on those MRS members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide. The…

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The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that UC Berkeley engineer and physicist Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected to the 2022 class of NAI Fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. Ramesh, professor of materials science and engineering and of physics at Berkeley, and currently vice president for research at Rice University, is known…

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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 Alumnus Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran to Chair Hoover Board of Award MSE alumnus Prof. Ponisseril Somasundaran (M.S., Ph.D.), who is currently the Lavon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, will chair the Hoover Board of Award (representing five engineering organizations: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American…

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