PhD student Rebecca Lalk’s passions include hiking, painting, mentoring other engineers, and improving cerium-doped rare earth aluminum garnet scintillators.

Dan Andress has donated $1 million to MSE in memory of his brother Thomas Andress, a UT alum, groundbreaking researcher, and industry leader in metallurgy.

David Mandrus, professor and Jerry and Kay Henry Endowed professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was named to the 2024 Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers. 

MSE students attended the 2024 International Materials, Applications & Technologies Conference to participate in the Domesday Competition sponsored by ASM International.

It’s been one year since the UT received a prestigious Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and the collaborations have led to breakthroughs in the lab and an appreciation for a different style of research.

Sergei Kalinin has been named the winner of the David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics by the American Physical Society as an outstanding contributor in the field of materials physics who is notable for high quality research, review articles, and lecturing.  

Junior Jocelyn Hess was awarded the George A. Roberts Scholarship at the 2024 International Materials, Applications & Technologies Conference on October 1. 

TCE alum Matthew Loyd was recently selected for an Early Career Research Program award by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for his proposal involving a neutron camera.

After more than a decade as the director of the Center for Materials Processing, Professor Claudia Rawn recently stepped down. Part of her lasting legacy at the CMP will be her dedication to put students first.

MSE Associate Professor Dustin Gilbert, has been named to the 40 Under 40 class of 2024 by the Knoxville News-Sentinel.