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@UTK_TCE ranked 35th among public institutions and came in 63rd among all universities in the 2022 @usnews undergraduate rankings, released Monday.
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Through an award-winning high school research project, Levi Dunn and Dominick Pelaia became interns at UT, helping MSE professors integrate AI with atomic-scale microscopy. Full story below! #EngineeringVols bit.ly/4dDsyvp
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The Materials Research Society (MRS) at MSE UT recently hosted the 2026 edition of “Science as Art,” featuring 21 artistic presentations of science submitted by UT STEM undergraduate and graduate students. 🎨
Full Story 🖼️ bit.ly/430u5p7
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We are proud to share that MSE of the Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee has climbed into the top 50 globally (14 nationally) in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS).
Full Rankings ➡️ bit.ly/4cVnjXz
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Following the Senior Design Showcase last Friday, senior #EngineeringVols presented their year-long research projects to faculty and students at MSE. This marks the final step of their undergraduate careers. 👏
Next stop - commencement! 🎓
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Associate Professor Dustin Gilbert and his wife, Anne Murray, a Research Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UT, have measured magnetism in more than 120 different species of bees over the last six years. 🐝
Full Story 🧲 bit.ly/4cQxmgx
ALT Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray in the lab
ALT Bee specimens
ALT Delivery boxes for bee specimens
ALT Bee species in tube
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Congrats to Jade Holliman for receiving 3rd place in the Electronics Division student oral presentation competition for his presentation "Linking Structure and Property in Compositionally Complex Rare Earth Zirconates via Multimodal Probes," at the ACerS 2026 Spring Meeting! 👏
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As the semester draws to a close, MSE is pleased to recognize our students who have received awards for their incredible work this school year! Well deserved, #EngineeringVols! For more information, head to the link below.
🔗 bit.ly/4mRXI58
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MSE was well represented at the EUReCA awards yesterday! Congratulations to all who participated in the showcase this year. See the full list of results below! 👇
🔗 bit.ly/4vWu96n
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Thursday, Ben Frandsen, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University, will be at IAMM to present on atomic and magnetic PDF investigations of two material systems of fundamental and applied interest.
🔗 bit.ly/4sBldk2
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Congratulations to the MSE faculty and students honored at the annual Tickle College of Engineering Awards Banquet! 👏
MSE Award Winners include:
🔸 Jocelyn Hess
🔸 Claudia Rawn
🔸 Eric Lass
🔸 David Mandrus
More on their individual awards ➡️ bit.ly/4dUvMevbit.ly/4dUvMev
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This Thursday, TMS Brimacombe Medal recipient, Dr. Yanfei Gao, will be at IAMM to discuss the mechanics of solid-state bonding under severe thermomechanical processes.
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3ODB3wG
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Six MSE #EngineeringVols attended The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s 2026 Annual Meeting and had several wins, including senior Jocelyn Hess receiving the Acta Materialia scholarship. 🎉
Read more about the awards here:
bit.ly/4bRTsic
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Dallas Trinkle, Ivan Racheff Professor and Associate Head of the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be on campus for a discussion on calculating kinosons. Get the details below ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/3NqfoaP
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For the first time in department history, MSE has reached the top 20 among public universities in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings!
Read more about what this milestone means for the department:
bit.ly/41lAEBT
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Dallas Trinkle, Ivan Racheff Professor and Associate Head of the Materials Science and Engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will be on campus for a discussion on calculating kinosons. Get the details below ⬇️
🔗 bit.ly/3NqfoaP
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Professor Yanfei Gao, the associate department head for graduate studies at MSE, has been selected as a 2026 Brimacombe Medalist by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). 👏Congratulations, Gao!
Learn more about Goa's research and the award: bit.ly/4bL9TNh
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Congratulations to MSE's own Marlena Alexander on receiving the Torchbearer Award! #EngineeringAward
Marlena Alexander has been named a 2026 Torchbearer, the university’s highest undergraduate student honor, in recognition of her leadership, service, and Volunteer Spirit. 🎉 Learn more about Marlena and this prestigious recognition at the link below!
🔗 bit.ly/4viplbx
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Congratulations to Cole Franz (BS/MSE ’21, PhD/MSE ’25), who was selected as a winner of the 2026 Henry Granjon Award from the International Institute of Welding, an annual international competition to increase young people’s interest in welding!
bit.ly/4c4zb8Z
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This coming Monday, March 9, Susan Troiler-McKinstry will be on campus to discuss switching in wurtzite ferroelectrics. Get more details at the link below 👇
🔗 bit.ly/4bqmghq
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