ACerS Awards

Nominations are now closed for most awards that will be presented at the ACerS 115th Annual Meeting held in conjunction with MS&T’13 in Montreal, Canada from October 27-31, 2013.

Most award nomination deadlines for the 2014 awards will be January 15, 2014. Note that the deadline for the 2014 Class of Fellows will be Sept. 1, 2013. Division, Section, and Class members should check below or with their respective groups to determine award nomination deadlines since some of them are still open.

PARTIAL LIST OF 2013 AWARD WINNERS:

The majority of the 2013 Society award winners have been determined, although a few remain to be approved at the Board of Directors meeting in June 2013. ACerS will be updating the bios and photos below for the 2013 winners and we are in the process of gathering this information now.  In the meantime, you can click on the 2013 Award Winners link to see who this year’s deserving winners are.

Brief bios and photos of the 2012 awardees can be found below. These will remain on the site until we have gathered most of the bios and photos for the 2013 winners.  Click on each photo to read a brief biography. Check back in late-May for information on the new group of winners.

Distinguished Life Membership

The Constitution of the Society states: “Distinguished Life Members shall be current members of the Society of professional eminence who, because of their achievements in the ceramic arts or sciences, or their service to the Society, are elected to such membership by the Board of Directors.” You must be an ACerS member to nominate someone. Two sponsors are required.

Gary L. Messing

Katherine T. Faber

Ludwig J. Gauckler

Society Fellows

Fellows shall be persons of good reputation who have reached their 35th birthday and who shall have been members of the Society at least five years continuously at the established nomination deadline date when nominated.

Alida Bellosi

Allan P. Katz

Christopher Berndt

Do Kyung Kim

Jacqueline A. Johnson

Jeffry W. Stevenson

Lennart Bergström

Martha Mecartney

Monika Backhaus-Ricoult

Omer Van der Biest

Paul Clem

Shashank Priya

Susmita Bose

William Hammetter

Xiang Ming Chen

Yoshihiko Imanaka

Yutai Katoh

Zhong Lin Wang

Corporate Environmental Achievement Award

The Corporate Environmental Achievement Award (CEAA) was established to recognize and honor a single outstanding environmental achievement made by an ACerS corporate member in the field of ceramics.

SCHOTT

Corporate Technical Achievement Award

This award recognizes a single outstanding technical achievement made by an ACerS corporate member in the field of ceramics. The achievement must show significant technical merit and represent a gain to society through commercialization of the technology within the preceding eight years. Through this award, the Society recognizes corporate members who have taken a technology and successfully developed it into a viable commercial product. It is not necessary for the technical and commercial development to be accomplished by one company, and joint nominations can be submitted. Up to two awards may be made each year.

Surmet Corp

Frontiers of Science and Society – Rustum Roy Lecture

This annual lecture of The American Ceramic Society honors Professor Rustum Roy of The Pennsylvania State University and recognizes his contributions to science and technology and their interrelationship to society-at-large. The lecture is given each year by an internationally or nationally recognized individual in the area of science, industry or government.

Larry L. Hench