Professor Ting Xu joins the ranks of the Bakar Fellows by Daisy Hernandez July 27, 2018 MSE Professor Ting Xu, was recognized as one of the five UC Berkeley faculty innovators that have been selected for the 2018-19 Bakar Fellows Program. Read full news story here. Read the full interview here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210…

Read More

DMR Summer 2018 Newsletter (feat. Professor Kristin Persson) by Daisy Hernandez July 10, 2018 Advanced spectroscopy opens up many pathways to study the local electronic environment of materials, probing the electronic structure directly, the atomic environments and the bonding; all of which are key to the development of next-generation simulations for materials discovery. Despite this…

Read More

Eugene Haller, leading expert in semiconductor materials, dies at 75 by Daisy Hernandez June 24, 2018 Eugene E. Haller, UC Berkeley professor emeritus in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and founder of the Electronic Materials Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), died on Friday, June 22. He was 75. Haller, who…

Read More

eCO2EP Project Leaders Publish a Perspective on the Electrochemical Synthesis of Bulk Intermediates from Carbon Dioxide by Daisy Hernandez May 18 , 2018 In the 18th of May issue of Science, the Professors Joel Ager (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley) and Alexei Lapkin (Department of…

Read More

Record-breaking Energy Conversion of Waste Heat by Daisy Hernandez April 10, 2018 A team of students lead by Prof. Lane Martin in Materials Science and Engineering and Prof. Chris Dames in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley have made an important demonstration of novel waste heat to electrical energy conversion based on a process called pyroelectric…

Read More

Berkeley MSE Graduate Ranking Moves up to #3 in 2018 USN&WR Rankings: by Daisy Hernandez April 05, 2019 The 2018 US News and World Reports graduate rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has moved up a slot to number 3 in the nationally.  The complete rankings and links to more details…

Read More

Donate to MSE! by Daisy Hernandez March 30, 2018 Make Big Give a Big Berkeley Moment for you! Donate to MSE here: give.berkeley.edu/mse Share these hashtags on social media or with your students! #BerkeleyMSE  #CALBigGive  #BerkeleyEngineering Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department…

Read More

BIG GIVE is TODAY! 3/8/18 by Daisy Hernandez March 08, 2018 Today is THE day! BIG GIVE is now LIVE and needs your love & support! 💙 Donate to the MSE dept. here: give.berkeley.edu/mse What’s your favorite Berkeley Moment? Please keep up with our social medias to stay updated with our department throughout the day. #BerkeleyMSE #CalBigGive #BerkeleyEngineering Contact Us…

Read More

BEARS (University of California, Berkeley) and CARES (University of Cambridge) team up in a new intra-CREATE programme by Daisy Hernandez March 07, 2018 A three-year programme will bring together researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, the, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to develop ways of…

Read More