MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering has two newsletters. The DMSE Digest has news about DMSE faculty, students, postdocs, and staff; stories about research and media mentions; and department and Institute events. DMSE Digest: Frontiers is a quarterly publication that seeks to reconnect with alumni and forge ties with friends of the department. 

DMSE Digest

June 2025

DMSE’s Commencement Reception celebrates graduating seniors and advanced-degree recipientsand honors students for excellence in research, service, and teaching. Yet-Ming Chiang is named one of The Boston Globe’s 2025 Tech Power Players and recent graduate Maria Aguiar discusses her research into garnet thin films—work with potential applications in data storage technologies.

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DMSE Digest: Frontiers

Spring 2025

This issue highlights DMSE’s extraordinary creativity, featuring research breakthroughs such as magnetic nanoparticles engineered to stimulate brain function, as well as exciting career milestones, including James LeBeau’s promotion to full professor and Cem Tasan’s appointment as the new director of the MIT Materials Research Laboratory.

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