News
Mon, 06/01/2020
MSE student researcher named to Husky 100
Grad student Samantha Phan, a researcher with Professor Christine Luscombe's group, was named to the 2020 Husky 100.
Fri, 05/22/2020 | College of Engineering
Quantum edge
Through strategic partnerships and the QuantumX initiative, the UW aims itself to be a leader in the coming quantum age.
Thu, 05/07/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Galenko receives teaching award
MSE's outstanding labs manager, Tatyana Galenko, was recognized with a 2020 FACET Award.
Fri, 05/01/2020 | UW News
Fewer microplastics found in Pacific oysters
The abundance of tiny microplastic contaminants in Pacific oysters is much lower than previously thought.
Fri, 05/01/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
ChocoLED wins award
MSE student's start up wins a prize in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Tue, 04/28/2020 | Comotion
MSE researchers developing mobile device that destroys viruses and bacteria on surfaces
An innovative device in development by MSE researchers will use UV and IR light to help minimize the spread of disease by disinfecting common surfaces.
Mon, 04/06/2020
Coronavirus information
The College of Engineering has pulled together resources to help our community navigate changes to learning, teaching and working.
Thu, 03/19/2020 | Nature
Hinds' lab pioneers dialysis innovation
Professor Bruce Hinds' lab, working with the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation, has invented a system to regenerate the cleaning water in dialysis using nanowires of photocatalyst.
Wed, 02/05/2020 | Clean Energy Institute
Powering the future of transportation
Professors Liu, Yang work with Nobel laureates to build a better battery for electric vehicles.
Wed, 01/08/2020 | Materials Science & Engineering
Alum Dylan Faherty wins NASA award
MSE congratulates Dylan Faherty (B.S. ’17) for winning the Trailblazer award from the NASA Spaceflight Awareness Directorate, an arm of NASA dedicated to outreach and recognition for support of manned spaceflight activities.
Fri, 12/20/2019 | CEI News
MSE faculty among world’s most influential researchers
Four MSE faculty members are among the most influential researchers in the world, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list published by the Web of Science Group.
Wed, 11/20/2019 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Matthew Yankowitz recognized as a finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award
MSE is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Matthew Yankowitz was a finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists. Yankowitz was recognized for his groundbreaking experimental work with a new class of two-dimensional materials known as van der Waal (vdW) materials.
Mon, 11/04/2019 | UW News
Light-based ‘tractor beam’ assembles materials at the nanoscale
MSE associate professor Peter Pauzauskie and a team of researchers that have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible.
Thu, 10/31/2019 | UW News
New technique lets researchers map strain in next-gen solar cells
Ph.D. student Sarthak Jariwala and colleagues have developed a way to illuminate strain in lead halide perovskite solar cells
Fri, 10/25/2019
Making medicine accessible
Through student project-turned-startup MedsForAll, MSE alum Shawn Swanson is developing an affordable alternative to the EpiPen.
Thu, 10/03/2019 | Materials Science & Engineering
Welcome 2019 Graduate Students!
Meet three of our grad students, part of the largest cohort of grad students in department history.
Wed, 10/02/2019 | Materials Science and Engineering
Next Generation Synchrotron Radiation Workshop
The University of Washington-Tohoku University: Academic Open Space (UW-TU:AOS) will hold a workshop to introduce a new synchrotron facility under construction at Tohoku University and slated to open in 2023. The workshop will be held on Friday, October 18, 2019, from 1:00pm-5:00pm, in the Allen Library Petersen room.
Fri, 09/27/2019
Controlling protein assembly on inorganic crystals through designed protein interfaces
MSE researchers Shuai Zhang and James J. De Yoreo and their collaborators have authored a study, published in Nature, on engineering proteins onto non-biological surfaces. Their study provides a foundation for understanding how protein-crystal interactions can be systematically programmed, and sets the stage for designing novel protein-inorganic hybrid materials.
Tue, 08/13/2019 | UW News
Dr. Nancy Allbritton named dean of UW’s College of Engineering
Dr. Nancy Allbritton has been named the next Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering.
Thu, 07/18/2019
First-ever visualizations of electrical gating effects on electronic structure could lead to longer-lasting devices
MSE's Xaiodong Xu has coauthored a paper on the visualization of the electronic structure in a microelectronic device.The research, published in Nature, opens up opportunities for finely tuned, high-performance electronic devices.
Wed, 07/17/2019 | Materials Science and Engineering
Encouraging an engineering future
At the culminating event at our 2019 MatCamp for high schoolers, a group of distinguished industry professionals and MSE academics talked about their professional journeys.
Mon, 07/01/2019 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Tatyana Galenko promoted to head of MSE Labs
MSE is excited to announce the promotion of Tatyana Galenko to Labs Manager. Mentored by the previous manager, Tatyana has amassed seven years of experience in the labs. Her skills and enthusiasm will continue to make the labs an important learning tool for MSE undergraduates.
Thu, 05/30/2019
MSE annual awards recognize achievement, service, mentorship
Meet the winners of the 2019 MSE awards. The MSE annual awards recognize academic achievement, service, and mentorship/teaching.
Tue, 05/21/2019 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Kuykendall to leave MSE labs for a private sector opportunity
MSE Lab Manager Tuesday Kuykendall has chosen to leave the department for an opportunity in the private sector. Tuesday's expertise, hard work, and dedication to students will be sorely missed.
Fri, 05/03/2019 | UW News
Researchers take a bottom-up approach to synthesizing microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing
MSE professor Peter Pauzauskie and a team of researchers have published a paper in Science Advances on nanodiamonds. Their research indicates the potential for advances in medical research, computation and beyond.