mrs – Materials Science & Engineering

Prof. Omar Yaghi Receives MRS’ Prestigious 2025 Von Hippel Award

This recognition honors Professor Yaghi’s founding of Reticular Chemistry and his groundbreaking development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs)—crystalline materials with ultra-high porosity and tunable structures. His work has transformed how scientists design materials and has opened up entirely new fields of research and application. The Von Hippel Award recognizes “those qualities most prized by materials…

Prof. Mark Asta won the David Turnbull Lectureship from MRS!

Professor Mark Asta has won this year’s MRS David Turnbull Lectureship! According to MRS, The prestigious David Turnbull Lectureship “recognizes the career contribution of a scientist to fundamental understanding of the science of materials through experimental and/or theoretical research”. Mark joins a long list of Berkeley MSE winners of the award including Ritchie…

MSE graduate student, Yin Liu wins MRS gold award!

MSE graduate student, Yin Liu wins MRS gold award! UC Berkeley MSE graduate student Yin Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Jie Yao’s research group, won the Gold Award for Graduate Student Award at the 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting. The MRS Graduate Student Awards consisting of gold and silver medals, are highly competitive…