MSE Ransburg Professor and Co-Director of the Semiconductor Degree Program, Nikhilesh Chawla, was awarded the 2024 Innovation in Materials Characterization Award from the Materials Research Society, for his innovations in developing time-resolved methods to characterize the evolution of microstructural features of materials under complex loading and environmental conditions. This award honors an outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under outside stimulus, electronic behavior, or other characterization features, of materials. The award also comes with a cash prize of $5,000 and a trophy.