MSE graduate student, Yin Liu wins MRS gold award! UC Berkeley MSE graduate student Yin Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Jie Yao’s research group, won the Gold Award for Graduate Student Award at the 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting. The MRS Graduate Student Awards consisting of gold and silver medals, are highly competitive…

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Rob Ritchie Awarded 2014 Acta Materialia Gold Medal by Materials Science and Engineering May 13, 2013 Rob Ritchie has been awarded the 2014 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award.  This international award is given in recognition of research contributions and leadership in materials science.  Rob is the 40th winner of the Acta Materialia Gold Medal.  He…

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Gerbrand Ceder and Kristin Persson join MSE Faculty by Materials Science and Engineering July 1, 2015 Professor Gerbrand Ceder joins the faculty of Berkeley MSE as a Professor on July 1, 2015. He received an engineering degree from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley…

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Professor Kevin Healy Named AAAS Fellow by Materials Science and Engineering January 2, 2014 Kevin Healy, UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon the association’s members by their peers. Healy was cited for his distinguished contributions to the fields…

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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Jack Washburn by Materials Science and Engineering November 4, 2013 Professor Emeritus of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of UC Berkeley and former Principal Investigator of the Materials Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Washburn (1921-2013) passed away on the 26th of October 2013 in his…

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