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UMinn–NSF math institute to host Materials Genome workshop

By / August 2, 2012

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, located at the University of Minnesota and one of the eight NSF-sponsored Mathematical Sciences Institutes, will be holding what sounds like a really…

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Society gains new awards through generosity of Cooper, Varshneya families

By / August 1, 2012

Left, Arun and Darshana Varshneya, and right, Lora Cooper Rothen and Reldon Cooper. Because of the kindness and philanthropy of two families who had already given much support to The…

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NSF professional development workshop for assistant professors and postdocs

By Eileen De Guire / July 26, 2012

Juan Nino, associate professor at the University of Florida, describes his research at an NSF workshop for principle investigators in June. The NSF is sponsoring another workshop in August early-career…

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Back to the heavens: Sally Ride, 1951–2012

By Eileen De Guire / July 24, 2012

Sally Ride on board the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. Ride, who was the first female astronaut, died yesterday at age 61. Credit: Wikimedia. Sally Ride changed the world for…

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ICC4 Day 5 and parting thoughts

By Lee Leonard / July 20, 2012

Invited speaker Ashok Khandkar, from BloXR, discussed innovations in ceramic materials for biomedical applications. Credit: Russell Lee Leonard, ACerS. Thursday was the final day for the 4th International Conference on…

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The end of ICC4 and my first blogging experience

By Bobby Harl / July 20, 2012

Peter Wray delivers the recap on the Security & Strategic Materials talks given at ICC4. Credit: Bobby Harl, ACerS. It is hard to believe ICC4 is already over, and I’m…

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ICC4 Interaction Technology Session redefines poster session

By / July 19, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/icc4_poster_session.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/icc4_poster_session.jpg}] My hats off to the ICC4 for taking a risk—one that in retrospect was clearly worth it—to offer and hold two opportunities for 25 participants each…

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ICC4 Day 4

By Lee Leonard / July 19, 2012

David Bem, global R&D director of Dow Chemical spoke to the ICC4 audience about Dow’s approach to materials innovations. Credit: Russell Lee Leonard, ACerS. Wednesday was another busy day at the…

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ICC4 Day 3

By Lee Leonard / July 18, 2012

Plenary session speaker Delbert Day addresses the audience at ICC4. Credit: Russell Lee Leonard, ACerS. The 4th International Conference on Ceramics continued on Tuesday with another full day of events.…

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ICC4: Student view of Ceramic Leadership Summit track

By Bobby Harl / July 18, 2012

CLS morning entrepreneur panel. Credit: Bobby Harl; ACerS. The highlight of my Tuesday was the Ceramic Leadership Syposium put on by ACerS. I was particularly interested in these talks as…

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