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Mishael Quraishi named 2025 Churchill Scholar

MIT senior Mishael Quraishi has been selected as a 2025-26 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in archaeological research at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.Quraishi,…

Coffee fix: MIT students decode the science behind the perfect cup

Elaine Jutamulia took a sip of coffee with a few drops of anise extract. It was her second try.  “What do you think?” asked Omar Orozco, standing at a…

DMSE Career Fair spurs students to explore job opportunities

Recruiters from multiple industries—from aerospace and electronics to pharmaceuticals and consulting—set up booths at the DMSE Career Fair on October 10, offering students in MIT’s Department of Materials…

Romancing the stone: DMSE researchers crack magnetic garnet mystery

Scientists love a good mystery—it keeps them querying, testing, changing variables, and trying again. Sometimes a mystery lingers for decades, outlasting technological limitations—and setting the stage for a…

Researchers discuss queer visibility in academia

“My identity as a scientist and my identity as a gay man are not contradictory, but complimentary,” says Jack Forman, PhD candidate in media arts and sciences and…

Quick action keeps DMSE commencement celebration on dry ground

A nearly constant downpour threatened to drench the Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s commencement reception at MIT on May 30, but quick thinking and swift action by…

Creating hands-on experiences for students in MIT’s forge

DesignPlus is a learning community open to MIT first-year undergraduates. It’s a space for hands-on experimentation and exploration, acquiring technical skills, finding mentors and mutual support, and…

EMERGE returns, enabling high schoolers to explore biological materials

The grad-student-run science discovery program EMERGE that trained middle-school kids on electron microscopes in November returned this spring, this time in the recently opened DMSE Breakerspace. Twenty-two high schoolers learned…

From steel engineering to ovarian tumor research

Ashutosh Kumar is a classically trained materials engineer. Having grown up with a passion for making things, he has explored steel design and studied stress fractures in alloys.

Fostering research, careers, and community in materials science

Gabrielle Wood, a junior at Howard University majoring in chemical engineering, is on a mission to improve the sustainability and life cycles of natural resources and materials. Her…