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
November 2025
MADMEC innovation contest features innovations such as a spray-on coating to help keep power lines standing in ice storms, biodegradable heart-monitoring electrodes, and microwavable ceramics. Professor Antoine Allanore is transforming steelmaking into a cleaner industry, and graduate student Miranda Schwacke is building computing systems that mimic the brain’s efficiency.
Past Issues
- 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.
