Prof. Kristin Persson of MSE is elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)!

  Prof. Persson is recognized for pioneering data-driven materials design through the creation and stewardship of open materials databases and associated data-mining algorithms. She serves as director of the Materials Project — a multi-institution, multinational effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials and provide the data and associated analysis algorithms to researchers free of charge. …

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Professor Junqiao Wu shares thoughts on Big Give

 Subject: Big Give is coming on March 14 – Join me!   Dear alumni, colleagues, and friends of UC Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Berkeley’s annual day of giving — Big Give — is happening next week, starting at 9 pm on Wednesday, March 13th and ending at 9 pm on Thursday,…

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Prof. Ramesh Receives Honorary Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences

  Congratulations to Prof. Ramesh on being inducted to the Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science and long-standing connection with the scientific community in India! Indian Academy of Sciences (www.ias.ac.in) elects up to three distinguished scientists to the Honorary Fellowship each year and the total number is limited…

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US News ranks Berkeley Engineering grad programs No.3 in the nation

    Latest national engineering rankings place all Berkeley programs in top 4 April 24, 2023 by Caitlin Kelley Berkeley Engineering holds onto the No. 3 spot of the top graduate engineering schools nationwide, and remains the top public engineering program, according to U.S. News & World Report’s newly published graduate program rankings.   You can read…

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PPG Distinguished Lecturer Professor Sossina Haile

Prof. Sossina M. Haile of Northwestern University – Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the inaugural PPG Foundation Distinguished Lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in recognition of her work in developing the relationships between structure, chemistry, and properties in electrochemically functional solids used in sustainable…

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World-Leading Microscopes Take Candid Snapshots of Atoms in Their ‘Neighborhoods’

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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