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
December 2025
The MRS Fall Meeting Reception and the Winter Social bring together faculty, staff, students, and alumni for camaraderie and celebration. UC Irvine’s Diran Apelian delivers the fall Wulff Lecture, sharing insights on why reuse and recycling need to be built into materials from the start, and Paula Hammond is named dean of the School of Engineering.
Past Issues
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
DMSE Digest: Frontiers
Fall 2025
This issue highlights DMSE’s curiosity-driven impact, featuring remarkable advances such as Michael Cima’s FDA-approved treatment for bladder cancer, a graduate student’s computing system that mimics the brain’s efficiency to fuel energy-efficient AI, and an undergraduate’s biodegradable plastic made from fish scales and featured on CBS.
