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

March 2025

DMSE alum Vanessa Chan delivers the spring 2025 Wulff Lecture, championing materials science and engineering while exploring how to bridge the gap between invention and market. Yoel Fink develops a health-monitoring elastic-fiber computer and the winners of the inaugural Breakerspace Microscope Image Contest are announced.

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DMSE Digest: Frontiers

Winter 2025

This issue exhibits DMSE’s technical innovation and educational excellence, featuring a new coffee class taught by Professor Jeffrey Grossman; awards, including presidential honors for Professors Angela Belcher and Robert Macfarlane; and research exploring cleaner ammonia production and more efficient AI hardware.

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