Newsletter Archive
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
May 2025
Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli receives a promotion to tenured professor, DMSE welcomes three new assistant professors, and Yet-Ming Chiang is honored for his sustainability work at the Environmental League of Massachusetts’s Earth Night. DMSE runners go the distance in the Boston Marathon and students defend their theses.

Past Issues
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.
