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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,…

Kristin Persson, Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley and a senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its 2024 Class for Chemistry! The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded 1739, was created…

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…

Our undergraduate program of MSE is ranked No.2 nationally by the most recent (2024) US News and World Reports! With the most recent (2023) national ranking of our graduate program, MSE is now ranked No. 2 in both undergraduate and graduate programs!

In this paper he and the co-authors develop CHargeNet, which is a universal machine-learned potential to model materials much faster than with typical first-principles methods. The need to quickly discover new materials and to understand their underlying physics in the presence of complex electron interactions calls for advanced simulation tools. Deng et al. propose…

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…

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…

In a collaboration between the groups of MSE’s own Professors Robert Ritchie, Andrew Minor, and Mark Asta, together with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers have produced the toughest material in the world. The work, published in Science, is focused on an alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel and shows a pathway to producing a material that is…

We are happy to announce that MSE graduate students: KyuJung Jun and Tina Chen from the Ceder group, and Jimin Kim from the Yang group have been selected to receive Materials Research Society (MRS) Silver award. Congratulations! Official announcement available at: https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/awards/spring-awards/graduate-student-awards/past-recipients Tweet from MRS: https://twitter.com/Materials_MRS/status/1598328645692579842?s=20&t=Ii2abwdwDdqgYYZZRk0MVw KyuJung Jun (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering) Tina Chen…

Professor Junqiao Wu shares thoughts on Big Give

Kristin Persson, UC Berkeley MSE Professor, Inducted into Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Ramesh Receives Honorary Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences

MSE Now Ranks No.2 Nationally in Both Undergraduate and Graduate Programs!

Berkeley MSE student Bowen Deng’s (from Professor Ceder’s group) paper just made the cover of Nature Machine Intelligence!

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Visits Lab

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

What does it take to make the toughest material in the world?

MSE Graduate Students Selected as Recipients of Silver Awards from Materials Research Society (MRS)