CEE Ph.D. student Sinan Keten won the prestigious Silver Award at the Materials Research Society’s (MRS) spring meeting in San Francisco last week. MRS Graduate Student Awards honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction and who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research. Keten, who is originally from Turkey, works with Professor Markus Buehler on the atomistic modeling of protein materials. He has co-authored more than 10 peer-reviewed papers to date.