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New Basic Needs Center in the MLK Jr. Student Union March 7, 2019 Six years in the making, UC Berkeley’s new Basic Needs Center, a one-stop shop for students with food, housing and financial insecurity, opens Monday, Feb. 25, on the lower level of the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union. The novel, nearly 3,000-square-foot…

Successful Demonstration of Fastest Electron Microscopy Detector Ever Made by Daisy Hernandez March 7, 2019 Professors Minor and Scott participated in the team that completed the successful installation and testing of the new 4D Camera at the National Center for Electron Microscopy in the Molecular Foundry at LBNL. This camera can produce continuous electron images every 11…

Congratulations to Professor Oscar Dubon on his appointment as the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion! by Eugene Pang January 15, 2019 Materials Science & Engineering Professor Oscar Dubón has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion at UC Berkeley. He previously served as Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs…

Greener Days Ahead for Carbon Fuels by Theresa Duque December 17, 2018 MSE graduate student Yanwei Lum and adjunct professor Joel Ager have discovered that a simple copper-based catalyst can be used to electrochemically convert carbon dioxide selectively to commodity chemicals such as ethylene and ethanol. Selective production of the desired product reduces the need…

Professor Al Balushi, welcome to Cal MSE! by Daisy Hernandez January 15, 2019 The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is very proud and pleased to announce that Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor effective January 1, 2019. Prof. Zakaria obtained his B.S., M. S. and Ph. D. from…

Memorial for Professor Eugene Haller by Daisy Hernandez October 14, 2018 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 Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1760 Phone: (510) 642-3801 Fax: (510) 643-5792 Privacy| Nondiscrimination| Accessibility

You are here: Home / News / APS Names 5 New Fellows at Berkeley Lab – Professor Junqiao Wu is one of them! APS Names 5 New Fellows at Berkeley Lab – Professor Junqiao Wu is one of them! by Berkeley Lab September 26, 2018 The 2018 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows have named five…

Dean Doyle to retire in Summer 2019 by Berkeley News August 27, 2018 Fiona Doyle, vice provost of graduate studies, longtime leader in the College of Engineering and campus, champion of student services and an influential pioneer in mineral engineering, will retire in June 2019 after a remarkable 36-year career at Berkeley. Read more here. Contact…

UC Berkeley Makes it to the Top 5 Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018! by Academic Ranking of World Universities August 26, 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018 have been released and UC Berkeley makes it to the top 5 universities in the world. The complete rankings and links to more details can be…

New Materials for 5G Microwave Communications and Beyond by Daisy Hernandez August 20, 2018 A joint team from the University of California, Berkeley, Drexel University, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, the Carnegie Institution of Science, and the University of California, Santa Barbara have made an important observation in the search for next-generation microwave communication materials. The…