2019 Research Wrap-up: MSE at UMD Ranked 18th among U.S. Universities by Nature

The December 12th issue of Nature ranked the University of Maryland (UMD) Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) 12th among U.S. public-university MSE departments, 18th out of all U.S. universities and 66th worldwide.

In this same issue, MSE Ph.D. Student, Emily Hitz, was named one of five emerging scientists in the field of materials science. In addition to Hitz's achievement, several other MSE students have been honored in the last few months:

Adam Pranda (Ph.D. student), 2019 John Coburn and Harold Winters Student Award in Plasma Science and Technology
Jacob Garnett (junior) was the first to open the Lockheed Martin Challenge Box at UMD - it took him less than 25 minutes
Adelaide Nolan (grad student), 2019 recipient of the Engie North America Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowship
Naila Al Hasan (Ph.D. student), 2019 MRS Graduate Student Silver Award
Joy Chao and Zoey Warecki (Ph.D. students), won second place in SciVid 2019, "ConTEMplating Atomic Resolution," during MRS 2019 Fall Meeting
John Howard (grad student), 2019 MRS Fall Meeting Best Poster Award

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