Master Bladesmith Bob Kramer’s lessons from the school of life

The story of Bob Kramer’s career is a wild one, peppered with twists and turns, false starts, and happy accidents. Before gaining renown as one the finest bladesmiths…

Hitchhiking cancer vaccine makes progress in the clinic

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are an appealing strategy for treating malignancies. In theory, when a patient is injected with peptide antigens — protein fragments from mutant proteins only expressed…

Wulff Lecture: Oh come on hydrogen, be nice!

Speaker C. Cem TasanPOSCO Professor of Materials Science and EngineeringDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract Materials science and engineering are built on…

On batteries, teaching, and world peace

Over his long career as an electrochemist and professor, Donald Sadoway has earned an impressive variety of honors, from being named one of Time magazine’s 100…

MSE Seminar Series: Ultraclean 2D Materials for Ferroelectricity, Superconductivity, and Topological Phenomena

Speaker Daniel A. RhodesAssistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract Electrostatic control over states that interact with superconductivity and understanding how these states…

MSE Seminar Series: Scaling Up Computational Materials Discovery via Deep Learning

Speaker Ekin Dogus CubukResearch ScientistGoogle DeepMind Abstract Deep learning models are often evaluated on validation sets sampled from the same distribution as their…

MSE Seminar Series: A Tale of Two Processes: Additive Manufacturing and Thermomechanical Processing of Metallic Alloys

Speaker Amy J. Clarke Distinguished Scientist, Los Alamos National LaboratoryFaculty Joint Appointment, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines Abstract Understanding structure-processing-property-performance relationships…

MSE Seminar Series: New Insights on Polycrystals from Multimodal 3D TriBeam Tomography

Speaker Tresa Pollock Alcoa Distinguished Professor of MaterialsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara Abstract From the earliest days of materials science, Cyril Stanley Smith recognized the importance of…

MSE Seminar Series: Coaxing the Recalcitrant: The Test Case of Grain Boundary Complexions

Speaker Martin HarmerAlcoa Foundation Professor Emeritus of Material Science and Engineering and Senior Research Scientist, Lehigh UniversityDirector of the Lehigh Nano/Human Interfaces Presidential Research Initiative Abstract…

MADMEC winner creates “temporary tattoos” for T-shirts

Have you ever gotten a free T-shirt at an event that you never wear? What about a music or sports-themed shirt you wear to one event and then…