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The newly renovated MCP was honored by Building Congress and Exchange for craftsmanship in retrofitting lab space.

Enzmann ('22) and Team Innerva secure another award in what has been a year of achievements.

  The Department of Materials Science & Engineering (DMSE) is proud to announce three undergraduate students have been awarded with the 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. Michael Lan, Anson Zhou and Bruce Enzmann make up the Innerva team whose device, a cone-shaped conduit device made of an outer synthetic polymer cylinder and an inner hydrogel, could…

Bruce Enzmann (’22) has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship, awarded to college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming the nation’s next generation of research leaders in the field of natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Recognized for his work in Hai-Quan Mao’s laboratory group, Enzmann is a member of an undergraduate research team…

The Department of Materials Science & Engineering is pleased to announce that Professor Mitra Taheri has been named a 2021 Brimacombe Medalist by the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS). The Brimacombe Medal is a mid-career award recognizing those with sustained excellence and achievement in business, technology, education, public policy or science related to materials…

We are excited to announce that Anthony Shoji Hall, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. Shoji’s research focuses on investigating electrochemically mediated renewable energy reactions and the synthesis…

  Professor Hai-Quan Mao has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors’ Senior Members Class of 2021. Hai-Quan Mao, associate director of the Institute of NanoBioTechnology (INBT) and a professor of materials science and engineering, is known for his work engineering novel nanomaterials for regenerative medicine and therapy delivery applications. Senior Members are inventors…

AIMBE Fellows are considered the most distinguished and accomplished leaders in the fields of medical and biological engineering, and are chosen for making contributions to those fields that have the potential to change the world.

This award honors outstanding individuals who have displayed excellence in areas of science communications, education, advancing diversity, mentoring, or community engagement.

The distinction recognizes and honors academic inventors who have created or facilitated outstanding inventions that have made a significant difference to people and to society.