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A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles
Creating better-performing materials comes down to having more control over their structure at the smallest possible scale. One particularly effective way to accomplish that is using nanoparticles, which…
DMSE to welcome new faculty member Manasa Kaniselvan
MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) will welcome Manasa Kaniselvan as a new faculty member in July 2027. Kaniselvan develops and uses computational tools to understand…
MIT’s Kavanaugh Fellowship: From invention to impact
Entrepreneurship and MIT have become a classic pairing, with a storyline that seems to write itself: A researcher develops a brilliant innovation in the lab, spins out a…
DMSE Career Fair expands students’ career horizons
The eighth floor of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing brought together recruiters, students, and postdocs from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) on October 16 for…
MIT student team CERBERUZ wins NASA LunaRecycle Centennial Challenge, turning lunar trash into tools
Establishing a human presence on the moon will require state-of-the-art spacecraft, spacesuits, life-support systems, and some of the most sophisticated technology humans have ever built. It will also…
Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want,…
MIT remembers Thomas Rose, a brilliant researcher and generous colleague
More than 100 people filled the MIT Chapel on Sept. 24 to pay tribute to Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, the MIT archaeometallurgist who died last month following a…
Exploring electron microscopes as engineering tools
Research scientist Julian Klein and Professor Frances Ross spoke with Physics about an electron microscopy technique they developed to move atoms within a material, creating new possibilities for…
Iwnetim Abate to receive MRS award for renewable energy
The Materials Research Society has named MIT Assistant Professor Iwnetim Abate the recipient of the MRS Nelson “Buck” Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy, recognizing his…
MIT named the nation’s top university by U.S. News for 2026-27
U.S. News and World Report has designated MIT as the top school in its annual rankings of the nation’s best universities, announced today. Among the academic specialties that U.S. News evaluates,…