News and Events

We are excited to announce that two MS&E students, Arvin Sharma and Aisha Lizaola, have been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).

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We are excited to share updates on two recent publications in Nature Energy and Nature Communications from Dr. Yijin Liu and his group, highlighting breakthroughs in battery material synthesis aimed at improving cathode performance, durability, and manufacturability.

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We are excited to highlight a new publication from Dr. Arumugam Manthiram and his team, recently featured in ACS Energy Letters.

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Seven faculty members affiliated with the Texas Materials Institute and from across the Cockrell School of Engineering have been awarded grants from the 2026 Strategic Energy Seed Grant Program, part of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austsin.

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Subhashini Sugumar, a Materials Science & Engineering graduate student, won the Overall Excellence in Research Communication award for her talk, "Reading a Battery's Mind."

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Yunlan Emma Zhang, an assistant professor in the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and an affiliate faculty member of Texas Materials Institute, was recently awarded the Outstanding Technical Contribution Award from the Aerospace Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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Researchers, including Jean Anne Incorvia, have developed an electronic tattoo to track moisture levels in plant leaves, potentially leading to improvements in wildfire prediction, agricultural yields, water conservation and food security.

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Subhashini Sugumar, a Materials Science & Engineering graduate student in Venkat Subramanian's lab, is a finalist in the University's Empower Your Research Pitch competition with her talk "Reading a Battery's Mind."

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Gavin Latham, a Materials Science & Engineering doctoral student under the supervision of Xiuling Li, has been awarded a scholarship the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program. The SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program provides scholarship recipients with full tuition, annual stipends, summer internships, and civilian employment in a DoD facility after graduation.

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Siddhartha Nanda, a Materials Science & Engineering graduate student and member of Dr. Hadi Khani's lab, has just had an article published in Energy & Environmental Science that answers the important question, "Is a non-flammable electrolyte safer?"

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