McAfee Professor of Engineering and Department Head Markus Buehler was named a 2018 Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Prize winner, awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The award was given for his paper titled “Bioinspired hierarchical composite design using machine learning: simulation, additive manufacturing, and experiment” that featured his former students Grace Gu, Chun-Teh Chen and undergraduate researcher Deon Richmond. The papers are evaluated by various factors such as article downloads, altmetrics, and citations, and shortlisted based on the science presented and potential future impact. Read more here.