News: Grad students

Building better batteries, faster

August 24, 2022

PhD student Pablo Leon uses machine learning to expedite research on novel battery materials, while helping newer students navigate graduate school.  

Awards and Honors 2021

June 2, 2021

Please congratulate the DMSE Faculty, Students, and Staff who have been honored with MIT, School of Engineering, and DMSE Awards!!   

Kitchen Matters

November 23, 2020

A group of DMSE grad students are creating short cooking videos that demonstrate a principle of materials science (i.e. chocolate tempering, boiling water).    

Artificial muscles made from contracting fibers

August 16, 2019

MIT researchers, including professors Polina Anikeeva, Yoel Fink, and Cem Tasan, have developed a new fiber-based system that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and biomedical applications.  

2018 Materials Day Winners

October 23, 2018

MIT Materials Day Poster Session winners are [left to right] graduate students Vera Schroeder, Rachel C. Kurchin, Gerald J. Wang and Philipp Simons, and Postdoctoral Associate Mikhail Y. Shalaginov. Sixty students and postdocs presented their posters in La Sala de Puerto on Wednesday, Oct. 10,…  

2018 MADMEC Results

October 11, 2018

Technology that uses light to clean water filtration systems in real time won the 2018 MADMEC competition on Oct. 9. The team that developed the system, Fiat Flux, received the…  

Takian Fakhrul, Grad Student with the Ross Group, researching photonics

October 2, 2018

When Takian Fakhrul was a young girl, her father, then a graduate student in materials science at the University of Manchester, would bring her along to his lab. During these visits, she would peek at structures under the microscopes or watch him polish newly synthesized materials. And she just…  

Student wins Broshy Graduate Fellowship

June 20, 2018

Philipp Simons received this IMES Graduate Fellowship and will be joining Professor Rupp's group.  "The Broshy Graduate Fellowship program aims to support the research and education of an exceptional graduate student whose work…  

Commencement Awards 2018

June 6, 2018

Undergraduate Award Recipients Outstanding Sophomore - Pooja Reddy Julian Szekely Award - Alexander Denmark Outstanding Senior - Emma Vargo Undergraduate Teaching Award - Ximena Hasbach and Emma Vargo Joseph M. Dhosi Outstanding Internship…  

2018 MIT Awards Convocation

May 11, 2018

The MIT Awards Convocation honors MIT students, faculty, staff, and community members who have made outstanding contributions to the shared life of the Institute. The awards recognize many of the qualities we hold dear at MIT: excellence in academics and teaching, public service, community…  

Getting to the heart of carbon nanotube clusters

February 14, 2018

Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft wings to heat sinks for mobile computing, requires them to be produced in large scale and at low cost. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a promising approach to manufacture CNTs…  

New technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells

December 21, 2017

The worldwide quest by researchers to find better, more efficient materials for tomorrow’s solar panels is usually slow and painstaking. Researchers typically must produce lab samples — which are often composed of multiple layers of different materials bonded together — for extensive testing.…