MSE Alumnus Ilan Gur Leading UK Science Innovation Agency As of August 2022, MSE alumnus (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) Dr. Ilan Gur has become the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the newly established UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). With nearly a billion dollars in initial funding, ARIA is designed to play a similar role…

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      U.S. News and World Reports released its 2023 ranking of Engineering Colleges and Graduate Programs. The strong efforts of our students, staff, faculty, and alumni were widely recognized as the graduate program in MSE @ Berkeley was ranked the #2 program in “Materials Engineering” and the College of Engineering was ranked #3 overall.…

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The American Physical Society (APS) is a professional society that represents over 55,000 members including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application…

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Welcome to the Fall 2020 Semester! Welcome new and returning students! We look forward to having you on campus when it is safe to do so. In the meantime, we wish you the best of luck in your studies! MSE Staff and Faculty are here for you. GO BEARS! Contact Us Department offices are located…

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Why did you choose to study MSE? I first learned about materials science during high school while working on solar cell research that happened to fall under the university’s MSE department. I still wasn’t entirely sure what MSE was, but really liked the lab I was part of, and started to learn more about the exciting…

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  Why did you choose to study MSE? I settled on majoring in Materials Science & Engineering in college because chemistry was my favorite subject in high school and I liked learning about science at the small scale. But I wanted to go into a field that would connect science to ‘real world’ applications so…

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In Memory of Colonel Paul Newman Spencer We are sorry to note that the department has lost a long-time employee and friend. Colonel Paul Newman Spencer passed away at the end of 2019 after joining the department some 42 years earlier. Paul retired from the Air Force in 1973 after 34 years of distinguished service…

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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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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! 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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