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Choosing a graduate program is a major decision, especially if you want a degree that leads directly to industry demand. A master’s in wide …

The Outstanding Senior Awards categories are Citizenship & Service, Humanities, Leadership and Scholarly Achievement. Seniors are nominated by their respective academic departments, and winners are chosen by a selection committee made up of faculty and staff members in the college.

On May 8, 2026, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering held its spring recognition of the graduates. The 65 conferred degrees included 5 doctoral candidates, 19 graduate students and 41 undergraduates.

The Celebration of Faculty Excellence is held each spring to recognize outstanding faculty who have received prestigious state, national and international awards, accolades or other distinctions during this academic year. This year, NC State honored 31 faculty members during the 2026 Celebration of Faculty Excellence on May 5.

I’m a second-year PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering program at NC State. Originally from the Indian west coast state of Gujarat, I work in Dr. Kinga Unocic’s…

For MSE’s undergraduates, TMS 2026 was more than a conference; it was a glimpse of the careers and discoveries that could lie ahead. Photo provided by Ariel Nguyen.

NC State MSE welcomed one of the world’s leading voices in nanomaterials research, Professor Yury Gogotsi, as the featured speaker for the 2026 Robert Davis Distinguished Lecture. The event was held on March 27, 2026, at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library and drew a packed audience of faculty, students and researchers eager to hear insights from a true pioneer in the field.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is proud to recognize two outstanding seniors, Grace Harvey and Eli Rodrigues, as the recipients of the 2026 MSE Senior Awards for Leadership and Scholarly Achievement, respectively.

Scott Walston turned his passion for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) into a lifelong career and now gives back through a scholarship supporting future North Carolina State University MSE students.

The inaugural NC State Battery and Energy Storage Systems Symposium brought together faculty, researchers, industry partners and students to explore emerging applications in batteries and energy-storage technologies.

By Dan Barkin, Business North Carolina | February 5, 2026 NC State has proposed the launch of a new defense and national security-focused institute to …

NC State is leveraging its interdisciplinary strengths and building institutional momentum with the launch of four new master’s programs. Each program reflects the university’s commitment to academic innovation, cross-college collaboration, and future-ready education.

Roger Narayan and Yaroslava Yingling each received the 2025 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension, the most prestigious award the College of Engineering at NC State University presents to individual faculty members.

When Paul Besser ’88 was a scholarship recipient at NC State, he knew that, if he could, he wanted to one day help students attend the College of Engineering with less financial stress. That’s why Besser and his wife, Kathy, recently finalized a $2.5 million estate gift to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering that supports student scholarships and establishes endowments for a professorship and for K-12 outreach.

Working with fellow students and postdoctoral researchers, Kamiyama is developing advanced methods for bulk and epitaxial crystal growth, polarity control and defect management with the goal of creating the next generation of optoelectronic and power devices.