Artificial intelligence opens enormous opportunities to transform materials science and materials-driven technologies, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is training the next leaders of that transformation. AI is being…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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, 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…
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…
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…