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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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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Prof. Ting Xu was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Engineering’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program as part of the End-of-Life Plastics (E3P) call for proposals (see details here). The proposal, entitled “Plastic Lifecycle by Rationally Designed Enzyme-containing Plastics” is part of a growing effort to consider the…

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Prof. Zak Al Balushi was awarded a grant from the Society of Hellman Fellows Fund. His Hellman project aims to develop a new kind of superconducting material known as “topological superconductors” that will address challenges with processing of quantum information. This fund, created by a generous gift from the late Mr. F. Warren Hellman, a…

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On Wednesday Aug. 25, 2021, Prof. Ramesh participated in a roundtable discussion with Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk on the future of scientific and technological research and breakthroughs in microelectronics. The roundtable, which can be found on the Department of Energies website here, offers a glimpse into the critical and developing work in this space…

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On Wednesday Aug. 25, 2021, Prof. Ramesh participated in a roundtable discussion with Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk on the future of scientific and technological research and breakthroughs in microelectronics. The roundtable, which can be found on the Department of Energies website here, offers a glimpse into the critical and developing work in this space…

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Congratulations to Professor Robert O. Ritchie on publishing his first book! After 40 years in the Materials Science & Engineering department, Professor Robert O. Ritchie has published his first book, “Introduction to Fracture Mechanics” published by Elsevier.  Read the book details here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in…

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Why did you choose to study MSE? I chose to study MSE because I competed in the Science Olympiad Materials Science event during high school and really liked the real-world application of chemistry and physics. This was after I had applied to colleges, so I switched my major to MSE shortly after coming to Berkeley.…

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