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Materials Science & Engineering Blog

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July 20, 2026

College faculty reach career milestones

The College of Engineering is celebrating faculty and teaching faculty members who have received promotions, tenure and academic appointments in the 2025-26 academic year. These achievements mark important career milestones…

July 16, 2026

Katy Jinkins receives Wisconsin Alumni Foundation Forward Award

Katy Jinkins (PhDMS&E ’20) has been selected for a 2026 Wisconsin Alumni Foundation Forward Award. The award acknowledges rising stars in various fields who exemplify the Wisconsin Idea through an emphasis on…

Franklin Hobbs smiles at the camera
July 16, 2026

Franklin Hobbs promoted to Associate Teaching Professor

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to announce the promotion of Franklin Hobbs to Associate Teaching Professor. Hobbs was awarded the James G. Woodburn Award for Excellence…

Daniel Rhodes, Materials Science and Engineering
July 15, 2026

Dan Rhodes promoted to Associate Professor

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is pleased to announce the promotion of Dan Rhodes to Associate Professor. Since joining the department in 2020, Rhodes has seen many milestones…

July 14, 2026

For the first time, UW-Madison hosts the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods

The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods June 22-25, 2026. The workshop, held at various locations each year since 1989, brings together…

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June 30, 2026

PhD student Matthew Vigil wins Best National Lab Project at ETI 2.0’s UPR

As a PhD student in materials science and engineering, Matthew Vigil came to UW-Madison looking for two things. He wanted to experience distinct seasons after growing up in Southern California,…

June 22, 2026

Engineering undergraduates raise their swords in new TV series

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering undergraduates is featured in the new competition series “Cast In Steel,” debuting on YouTube on July 9, 2026. The series follows some of…

Sebastian Kube
June 10, 2026

Kube earns inaugural ARPA-E IGNIITE Director’s Award

Sebastian Kube, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as one of four inaugural recipients of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s…

June 10, 2026

Using powerful computational tools, Ping identifies a promising oxide qubit material

In a paper published June 3, 2026, in the journal PRX Quantum, MS&E Associate Professor Yuan Ping, along with UW-Madison graduate students Shimin Zhang, Erik Perez and Kejun Li, used…

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May 27, 2026

MS&E PhD student Christopher Blackwell selected for DOE Graduate Research Program

The Department of Energy Office of Science has selected Christopher Blackwell, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for the 2026…