News Archive - Michigan Materials Science and Engineering

Recently promoted faculty Geeta Mehta, Yiyang Li, Wenhao Sun and Kai Sun

MSE Announces Promotions for Three Faculty Members and One Research Scientist

September 2, 2026

Recently promoted faculty Geeta Mehta, Yiyang Li, Wenhao Sun and Kai Sun

Pioneering ‘Quantum Metallurgy’

May 18, 2026

Findings from the Hovden lab--which made the cover of Matter--suggest scientists may eventually be able to engineer quantum materials the way metallurgists tailor metals.

Record Number of MSE Students Receive NSF Fellowships

May 18, 2026

Twelve MSE-affiliated students earned NSF GRFPs, sailing past the previous record set two years ago.

Undergrad Boom: Expansive Growth and National Honors

May 18, 2026

The number of undergraduates declaring an MSE major surged by over 50% this academic year, while one third of our 2026-27 NSF GRFP winners were undergrads working in MSE labs.

TaeEun Jun Awarded Selective CoE Summer Research Award

May 14, 2026

The Wang Chu Chien-Wen Research Award will allow Jun, a rising senior, to study ternary nitride materials in the Sun Research Group this summer.

Clockwise from top left: Arkajit Ghosh, Avinava Roy, Chuqi Huang, and Wonjoon Suk.

Four Students Earn Rackham Scholarships for 2026-27

April 16, 2026

The prestigious fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious, and impactful.

Gabi Grey Receives 2026 Towner Prize

February 26, 2026

Gabi Grey, a member of the Taub lab and current GSC president, is the 2026 recipient of the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement.

Student Places First in ASME IMECE Poster Contest

February 26, 2026

A member of the Goldman group, Jakob Hammond-Renfro finished atop the UG division for his research, "Probing the Electronic States of Antimony Telluride Homologous Superlattices.”

Powering the Next Generation of Nuclear Energy

February 14, 2026

MSE alumna Rita Baranwal (MS MSE '96, PHD '98) is chief nuclear officer at Radiant, a start-up developing what could be the world's first mass-produced microreactor.

Tim Chambers receives 2026 MSE Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award

January 29, 2026

The annual award honors an MSE faculty member for his/her stellar performance in materials research, teaching, and service to the department.