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Danielson says ceramists have a home at ARPA-E

By / January 22, 2010

David Danielson, one of the project directors of DOE’ relatively new $400 million ARPA-E program gave today’s keynote presentation at the ACerS’ Electronic Materials and Applications conference. Danielson has a…

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New report shows advanced ceramics in demand

By / December 29, 2009

A recently released report by the Freedonia Group shows that advanced ceramics will continue to penetrate applications such as capacitors, cutting tools, orthopedic joint implants and membranes, where they are…

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DOE announces creation of ARPA-E Fellows program; $100M in new funding

By / December 9, 2009

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced on Dec. 8 that it is launching a new fellowship project. According to the DOE, ARPA-E is looking to hire (for…

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Video of the week – 2009 Rustum Roy Lecture: ‘Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century’ by Charles Vest

By / November 19, 2009

Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of MIT, was the 2009 Frontiers of Science & Technology–Rustum Roy Lecturer at the recent ACerS Annual Meeting…

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Apply to be a National Academies Graduate Fellow

By / September 24, 2009

The National Academies have just announced that they are soliciting applications for the next two sessions of their Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Graduate Fellowship Program. One is a Winter-Spring…

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Wiley-Blackwell wins awards at publishing conference

By / September 20, 2009

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, at its international conference in Oxford Belfry, U.K., just gave Bob Campbell, senior publisher at Wiley-Blackwell, its annual award for Contribution to…

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Get out your pens and publish with ACerS!

By / September 17, 2009

ACerS-Wiley is currently seeking new authors or volume editors for textbooks, handbooks or reference books on ceramics and ceramics-related topics. By publishing with ACerS-Wiley, you are joining a team of…

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Ceramic injection molding short course coming up

By / September 1, 2009

ACerS is sponsoring a two-day course on Ceramic Injection Molding Sept. 16-17. The course is being held in San Diego, Calif. The course is a good opportunity for engineers, QC…

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Ohio offering $27M for nascent advanced energy projects

By / August 6, 2009

Via the state-run Third Frontier technology development program, the Ohio Department of Development has announced that it is seeking $27 million worth of “requests for proposals” for its 2010 fiscal…

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Spain, Portugal open new joint nano center

By / July 20, 2009

Spanish and Portuguese officials hope the $140 million, 160,000 square-foot center, opened on Friday, will pole-vault their nations into the fields of “nanomedicine, environmental monitoring, nanoelectronics and molecular nanomanipulation,” according…

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