Professor Martin Wins the ACers Coble Award for Young Scholars by Daisy Hernandez April 8, 2016 Professor Lane Martin is the recipient of the 2016 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (ACers).  The award recognizes young scholars, below 35 years of age, for outstanding contributions in ceramics research.  The…

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Professor Persson and Alumnus Alex Luce in Forbes by Daisy Hernandez March 22, 2016 Professor Kristin Persson and Dr. Alex Luce (PhD from MSE, and currently Program Manager at CalCharge) are quoted in a recent article in Forbes magazine, entitled “With Super-Computing, The Process of Disruptive Innovation in Energy is Likely to Accelerate.”  The article…

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MSE PhD student, Nathan Velez, is being honored as a Distinguished Fellow by Daisy Hernandez March 7, 2016 Graduate Division and the Office of Equity & Inclusion have announced that MSE student, Nathan Velez will be amongst the students honored at the upcoming “Celebration of Distinguished Fellows.” This celebration is honoring Berkeley’s outstanding graduate students…

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Professor Jie Yao Receives the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award by Daisy Hernandez March 7, 2016 Professor Jie Yao has been named the 2016 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).  Professor Yao has received this award in recognition “of his contributions to the investigation of…

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Mingxi Zheng is a finalist in the Berkeley Grand Slam Championship! by Daisy Hernandez March 4, 2016 Congratulations to MSE student, Mingxi Zheng for advancing to the finals of Berkeley’s Grad Slam Championship! Mingxi’s video entry is one of the ten that have been selected by our first-round judges to enable you to move on to…

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Megan McClarty: Hyperloop Design Weekend Inspires New Innovation by Daisy Hernandez February 26, 2016 A few hundred years ago, if you wanted to get from San Francisco to Los Angeles, your best bet would be to take a horse-drawn wagon. The journey would take you days of arduous jostling over uneven terrain in the hot…

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Paul Alivisatos awarded Dan David Prize for nanoscience research by Daisy Hernandez February 17, 2016 Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley’s newly appointed vice chancellor for research and the outgoing director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been awarded the international Dan David Prize for his contributions in the field of nanoscience. Read more here. Contact Us…

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Dean Fiona Doyle Elected to the National Academy of Engineering by Daisy Hernandez February 8, 2016 Dr. Fiona Doyle, Donald H. McLaughlin Professor of Mineral Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley, has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering.  Dean Doyle joins…

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Density Functional Theory: The State of the Art by Daisy Hernandez January 22, 2016 Professor Persson’s group recently published a paper detailing case studies in which density functional theory (DFT) has led to a paradigm change in computational materials science, whereby theorists are not only able to help explain and interpret the properties of materials…

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