MSE’s own Ph.D. student Emma Vargo was named the UC Berkeley winner of the 2022 Gareth Thomas Materials Excellence Award. This award, named for former faculty member Prof. Gareth Thomas, a pioneer in electron microscopy and materials education, recognizes excellence in graduating Ph.D. students based on their research accomplishments, academic achievement, and integrity, spirit of cooperation, and…

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  The podcast “A Day in the Half-Life” is a podcast about the surprising and often unexpected ways that science evolves. Host Aliyah Kovner at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory featured MSE’s own, Prof. R. Ramesh in the Feb. 9, 2022 episode entitled “More Microchips, Moore Problems”. The episode focuses on efforts to make the next generation…

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Kristin Persson was a panelist in a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) session at a national investigators meeting speaking about the ever more important role that data science has to play in basic-science research. Professor Persson, who leads the Materials Project, is a world-leading expert on how open…

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MSE’s Prof. Ramesh has been elected to the Indian Science Academy as a Foreign Fellow of the Academy effective January 1, 2022. The Indian National Science Academy has just 941 Fellows and only 95 Foreign Fellows. Congratulations to Prof. Ramesh for this honor!

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The 2022 US News and World Report rankings came out today. The College of Engineering at Berkeley was ranked 3rd overall in terms of Engineering Schools and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was ranked 3rd for both undergraduate and graduate programs. This is testament to the hard work and excellence of students, faculty, and staff!

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Professor R. Ramesh has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Selection Committee noted that Prof. Ramesh has “demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.”  He will be officially…

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Research from Prof. Minor’s and Prof. Ritchie’s groups led to the creation of pure titanium with a nanotwinned structure that demonstrated both ultrahigh strength and ductility. By using a processing method called cryo-forging, they demonstrated for the first time a nanotwinned structure in a bulk metal. This method is potentially cost-effective, scalable for commercial production…

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