Gareth Thomas Award 2019 Celebration

Gareth Thomas Award 2019 Join us as we present the Gareth Thomas Award 2019 winner on Friday, 12/13/19 at the MSE Holiday Celebration! More information 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   210 Hearst Memorial…

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Going Cold: The Future of Electron Microscopy

Going Cold: The Future of Electron Microscopy Taking the technology to low temperatures could enable advances in materials science and other fields. Read the full interview 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   210 Hearst Memorial Mining…

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World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’

World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’ Scientists use powerful 4D-STEM electron microscopy technique to map out the best atomic ‘hangouts’ in high-performance materials. 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…

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Successful MSE Career Fair!

Successful MSE Career Fair! Our very first MSE Department Career Fair was a total success!! A big THANK YOU to Apple, DuPont, Lockheed Martin, Zymergen, Citrine Capital and Carbon for participating, UC Berkeley MSEA for all of your hard work and to the students that showed up and took advantage of this informative event! Stay tuned for the next MSE Career Fair! Contact Us…

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Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material

Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material Prof. Jie Yao’s team have created new inorganic crystals made of stacks of atomically thin sheets that unexpectedly spiral like a nanoscale card deck. Their surprising structures, reported in a new study appearing in the Wednesday, June 20 issue of the journal Nature, may yield unique optical, electronic and…

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Congratulation to Clarissa Towle for receiving the Teaching Effectiveness Award!

Congratulation to Clarissa Towle for receiving the Teaching Effectiveness Award! Photographer: Peg Skorpinski   The Teaching Effectiveness Award honors a small number of outstanding graduate student instructors each year who have made a significant contribution to teaching and learning in their departments through identifying and responding to a problem they have encountered in a class,…

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Message from Dean Doyle

Message from Dean Doyle This is my last message as Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate Division to you. I head off to retirement at the end of the month, and pass the baton to Lisa García Bedolla, who will be a wonderful advocate for graduate education. It has been a…

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Dr. Matthew Sherburne wins the Fung Capstone Mentorship Award!

Dr. Matthew Sherburne wins the Fung Capstone Mentorship Award! Capstone advisors play an integral role in the success of the Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) Capstone experience program. Dr. Matthew Sherburne from the Materials Science and Engineering department won the MEng Faculty Capstone Mentorship Award. This recognition was awarded to the faculty Capstone advisor who…

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