BU Materials Science and Engineering

Join us for our last MSE Grad Talk for the Spring semester, hosting Toluwalope John in PHO 211 to give his presentation titled: Nanoscale Engineering of the Oxygen Electrode in Solid Oxide Cells: Barrier-Layer-Free Ruddlesden–Popper Nickelate Infiltration for Intermediate-Temperature Performance and Durability

🎓👏 Congratulations to our 2026 graduates! We’re incredibly proud of all you’ve achieved and excited to see the impact you’ll make in the next chapter of your journey.

What a great day of hands-on learning! 
During ASM Materials Experience at Boston University, high school students explored the world of Materials Science & Engineering through interactive modules on shape memory alloys, cryogenic phenomena, corrosion and batteries, microscopy, polymers, and 3D printing. Thank you to the faculty, graduate students, volunteers, and organizers who helped inspire the next generation of engineers and introduce students to exciting STEM careers.

A successful MSE GSA x ASM Boston Student Networking Night this week!
Students connected 1-on-1 with industry professionals from companies like GE Aerospace, Saint-Gobain, Draper, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and more—gaining insight on careers, resumes, and opportunities in the field. Thanks to everyone who joined us for an evening of learning, networking, and community.

Congratulations to Professor Uday Pal for being selected as a 2026 TME Fellows Award Recipient!

Check out Professor Soumendra Basu’s cover feature in JOM: the Magazine in our link in bio!

Connect. Network. Celebrate. 
The MSE GSA is bringing together MSE alumni, students, and friends for a night of networking on Dec. 2! Snacks, great conversations, and good company. Join us!
🔗RSVP link in bio

Associate Professor Scott Bunch and collaborators have discovered the first-ever molecularly impermeable plastic, a material so tightly packed that not even a single gas molecule can pass through. This breakthrough could redefine how we protect electronics, solar cells, and more.
Published in Nature 647, 383–389 (2025).
🔗 Read more in the link in bio!

🔗 in bio | Congratulations to Michelle Teplensky who was awarded the CMBE Rising Star Award, recognizing investigators in labs less than six years old who develop healthcare solutions through engineering. Teplensky applied for the award with an abstract describing an approach to use nanomaterials to enhance the potency and personalization of vaccines, work led by PhD Student Ezra Cho.
Read the article to learn more!

🔗 in bio | David Bishop was awarded the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize for groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anionic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions.