2026 APS president outlines his career, his goals for the year, and where he finds optimism in challenging times.

Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice of Engineering Danny Warshay was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program award, from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

This March, Brown will launch its first-ever Climate Week—a campus-wide celebration of ideas, innovation, and action for a sustainable future. It is an open invitation for students, faculty, alumni, and community members to come together to explore how research, policy, and practice intersect to drive meaningful climate solutions.

Brown University’s School of Engineering (SoE) invites applications from candidates for a Professor of the Practice position at the Associate or Full level in the area of Sustainable Energy.

Brown University engineers showed that applying a temperature gradient across a solid-state electrolyte blocks destructive dendrite growth, offering a practical solution to a major barrier in battery technology.

Nitin Padture, the Otis E. Randall University Professor of Engineering at Brown, has received a Humboldt Research Award.

Research by Brown University engineers sheds new light on how sodium behaves inside these batteries, providing new design specifications for anode materials that maximize stability and energy density for sodium-ion batteries.

Brown University’s Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering Yue Qi has been elected to the class of 2026 Fellows by the Materials Research Society (MRS). She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS. She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS.

The 5 Sigma Physicist honor recognizes APS members who demonstrated substantial, impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs.

Assistant Professor Joy Zeng, the newest chemical engineering professor to join the Brown School of Engineering, recognized the fundamental link between chemistry and nature even before she knew how to put it into words.

Associate Professor Feng Lin’s laboratory in Brown University’s School of Engineering leads pioneering studies using advanced materials and cell diagnostics analyses to systematically elucidate the degradation behavior of battery materials. B

Yue Qi, the Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University and member of ISE executive committee has received the 2025 Ross Coffin Purdy Award from The American Ceramic Society for a 2023 Nature Communications research paper. Presented annually, the Purdy honors the most valuable technical contribution to ceramic literature published two years prior. There were two awarded papers in 2025.