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The Bakar Fellows program selects Professor Phillip Messersmith’s project, “Gel Protection During Tumor Ablation” for Spark Awards. You can find the full story here: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/31/Bakar-Fellows-program-selects-seven-projects-for-Spark-Awards?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=877452a58e-berkeleyan_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-877452a58e-388726349

Gerd Ceder (left), Faculty Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Division (MSD), shows Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies, Singapore, the capabilities of A-Lab, An automated, accelerated Lab controlled by AI software, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in Berkeley, California, 05/15/2023. by Elements News You can read the…

Congratulations, David Cook and Zehao He, on this well-deserved recognition! Your unwavering commitment and genuine passion for teaching have not only positively impacted the lives of your students but have also enriched our community as a whole. We are truly proud to have you as integral members of the department. David is a PhD student…

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…

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…

Berkeley Lab researcher Yan Zeng looks over the starting point at A-Lab. The new lab combines automation and artificial intelligence to speed up materials science discovery. (Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) MSE’s Prof. Ceder’s automated lab, A-Lab, is featured at LBNL news: Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the…

MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Phillip Messersmith were selected as members of the class of 2023 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellows. MRS, one of the premier professional societies in materials science, bestows the title of MRS Fellow only on those MRS members who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide. The…

Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE), is currently pursuing an MEng in Materials Science & Engineering. He is a student leader for the Sustainable Energy Affinity group. Prior to UC Berkeley, Johnny earned a BS in Chemistry from UC Davis and worked professionally in battery engineering for 4 years at Quantumscape. Here, he shares insight into his…

Photo by Dom Fou on Unsplash What if your learnings from school perfectly aligned with the skills you needed in your career? Have you ever taken classes outside your major to get experience and exposure for your next career transition? As it stands, academia and industry are not well integrated with each other. That is, not all…

The designation “MSA Fellow” is intended to recognize senior distinguished members of the Society who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the field of microscopy and microanalysis through a combination of scientific achievement and service to the scientific community and the Society itself. Election to MSA Fellow is limited to a small fraction…

The Bakar Fellows program selects Professor Phillip Messersmith’s project for Sparks Award

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Visits Lab

2022-2023 Outstanding GSI Recipients

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

PPG Distinguished Lecturer Professor Sossina Haile

Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future By Lauren Biron April 17, 2023

Professors Kristin Persson and Phillip Messersmith Named 2023 MRS Fellows

Q&A with Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE) On joining the MEng program after working in industry and his interests in sustainable energy

Op-ed: Reimagining higher education — Academia versus industry By Johnny Ma, MEng ’23 (MSE)

Congratulations Professor Haimei Zheng for being elected Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), Class of 2023