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The May 2022 issue of ACerS Bulletin is now available online.

In this month’s issue, we celebrate the past, present, and future applications of glass. All these applications where on display at the National Day of Glass Conference, which kicked off North American-based celebrations of the United Nations International Year of Glass. The May issue summarizes what took place at this star-studded event.

This issue also includes an interview with Mathieu Bauchy and John C. Mauro, who discuss the current progress in harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning to design new glasses. Plus, this year’s Kreidl Award awardee Nagia S. Tagiara, Ph.D. candidate at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, writes about her research on tellurium dioxide-based glasses. Tagiara will present her Kreidl Award lecture on May 24 at the Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting in Baltimore, May 22–26, 2022.

John Ballato (Clemson University) contributes this issue’s International Year of Glass column. He looks at the use of glass in optical technologies and provides a timeline of the entwined historical development of glass and light technologies. The “Business and Market View” column overviews the current fiber optic instrumentation market, while the “Deciphering the Discipline” column talks about expanding materials for optical applications through development of pure and nickel-doped transparent magnesium gallate ceramics.

Finally, read a recap of the Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories that took place in March and preview some of the upcoming ACerS meetings, including the Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting (May 22–26), the Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas (July 24–28), and ACerS 124th Annual Meeting at MS&T22 (October 9–13).

You’ll find a lot more interesting content inside this—and every issue—of the ACerS Bulletin. The current issue is free to all for a short time, but remember that all the valuable content in more than one hundred years of past issues of the ACerS Bulletin is free only to members—so considering joining us today!

An important message for readers of our printed magazine

Readers may notice that this Bulletin is more slender than usual. An acute, global shortage of paper has led us to reduce the number of pages printed. For more information on the shortage, contact customer service at customerservice@ceramics.org.

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Lisa McDonald

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