Awards April 24, 2018 · 3 min read Strategy to prevent materials from mixing earns Jason Kawasaki NSF CAREER Award Some materials are like ham and cheese—two separate layers that don’t intermingle. Other materials are like peanut butter and jelly—mixing and swirling together at their interface until it becomes impossible…
AwardsFaculty October 8, 2025 · 3 min read Kawasaki named a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Jason Kawasaki, an associate professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named a 2025 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator. Selection to the program is a prestigious…
FacultyResearch June 27, 2023 · 5 min read Major NSF-sponsored materials research center funded for $18 million The University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) has received $18 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for interdisciplinary exploration of fundamental questions in…
Students May 12, 2023 · 3 min read MS&E transfer student made the most of his time at UW-Madison Kyle Sprecker grew up in Madison, just a few miles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. When he was younger, the university felt distant and he rarely visited. “It always…
FacultyStudents March 7, 2023 · 3 min read MS&E capstone team draws on individual talents In the fall of 2022, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials science and engineering students Anna Janicek, Simon Roemig, Sarah Tang and Griffin Tong formed a team for their capstone course. While…
FacultyResearch July 18, 2022 · 4 min read The whole story: Promising thin film growth technique is the result of microscopic holes Materials researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed some of the atomic-scale mechanisms behind remote epitaxy, an emerging method for synthesizing extremely thin films and membranes—and the process is…
Students October 6, 2021 · 1 min read Materials science and engineering graduate students win AVS student awards The American Vacuum Society (AVS), a scientific organization dedicated to advancing the science and technology of vacuum, materials, surfaces, interfaces, thin films and plasmas recently honored two University of Wisconsin-Madison…
FacultyResearch May 3, 2021 · 4 min read New technique induces magnetism in nanoscale materials In 1903, German mining engineer and chemist Carl Ludwig David Friedrich Heusler published the first description of the class of intermetallic alloys that bear his name. Today, he likely would…
FacultyResearch August 4, 2020 · 2 min read College of Engineering faculty are part of new quantum institute In July 2020, the National Science Foundation named the University of Wisconsin-Madison a partner in a new 5-year, $25 million quantum science collaboration called the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for…
FacultyResearch June 7, 2019 · 3 min read Not so defective, after all: Demystifying advanced quantum materials Sometimes, flaws are what makes a thing special. That’s the case for a type of material called optical quantum emitters, which send out light in an exceptionally precise manner, one…