MRS in the News

Apr 16, 2025 | University of California, Los Angeles

Jun Chen, an associate professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Early-Career Investigator Award by the Materials Research Society

Apr 16, 2025 | Chemical & Engineering News

Devices can record neural activity for hours, then be peeled off without damaging hair.

Mar 24, 2025 | DOE Science News Source

Miaofang Chi and Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, both researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have been elected as Class of 2025 Fellows of the Materials Research Society, or MRS.

Feb 11, 2025

Nine MRS Members and Volunteers are part of the recently announced National Academy of Engineering's 2025 Class. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.

Dec 27, 2024 | University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) PhD student Minjeong Kim won a best poster award during the 2024 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting which was held in Boston recently.

Aug 6, 2024 | Virginia Tech

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has appointed Tim Sands, president of Virginia Tech and widely published researcher in nanotechnology, materials science, and optoelectronics and energy conversion devices, to serve as the board chair.

Feb 26, 2024 | Berkeley Engineering

Kristin Persson, a 2023 MRS Fellow and 2023 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium X Speaker, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in its 2024 Class for Chemistry.

Feb 7, 2024 | UConn Today

Cato T. Laurencin, the 2020 Von Hippel Award winner, chief executive officer of The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering, and the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of CT

Feb 6, 2024 | National Academy of Engineering

MRS Members among those honored by NAE include Marc Baldo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Irene Beyerlein, University of California, Santa Barbara; Alexandria Boehm, Stanford University; Babu Chalamala, Sandia National Laboratories; Carolyn Duran,

Jan 17, 2024 | University of Tennessee

UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor Rigoberto Advincula has been awarded the grade of fellow by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). 

Dec 12, 2023 | University of Tennessee

Rigoberto Advincula, the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials, has been elected National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. 

Oct 20, 2023 | Newswise

The field of quantum dots and nanoparticles bridges chemistry and physics like never before with colloidal phenomena and ease of materials synthesis. Bawendi, Brus, and Ekimov enabled this seminal contribution

Oct 4, 2023 | Associated Press

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots - tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in everyday life include electronics and medical imaging.

Aug 22, 2023 | MIT News

In 21 years at MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering — — Chris Schuh earned a reputation as a world-class scientist, an effective administrator, a repeat entrepreneur, and a generous and collaborative colleague.

Aug 4, 2023 | Purdue University

Alexandra (Sasha) Boltasseva, a 2023 MRS Fall Meeting Chair, was named the Ron and Dotty  Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering  by the Purdue University Board of Trustees. 

Jun 2, 2023 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rigoberto Advincula, a renowned scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory & professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee, has won the Netzsch North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS)

Mar 31, 2023 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ho Nyung Lee, a condensed matter physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. 

Mar 14, 2023 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Developing materials that can withstand extreme environments, like space or nuclear reactors, remains a challenge for materials science. Work from researchers was featured in a new special issue of MRS Bulletin.

Mar 6, 2023

The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has named Yu Huang, a professor and chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department and an MRS Fellow, as the inaugural holder of the Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair.

Feb 7, 2023 | National Academy of Engineering

Seven Materials Research Society Members are part of the NAE Class of 2023—Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Peter Green, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Carlos Levi, University of California, Santa Barbara; Thuc-Quyen Nguyen