Congratulations to the 2016 GOMD student poster winners

At its Annual Meeting in May 2016 the Glass & Optical Materials Division awarded best student poster prizes to the following winners. Thanks to Corning Incorporated for their sponsorship of the annual contest.

First place:
Yongjian Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Poster title: Crack Initiation in metallic glasses under nanoindentation

Second place:
Mengyi Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Poster title: Topological Control on Borosilicate Glass Dissolution Kinetics

Third place co-winner:
Yinshan Chen, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Poster title: Fracture of molecular glasses under tension and fracture-induced crystallization

Third place co-winner:
Xiaonan Lu, University of North Texas
Influences of low concentration V and Co oxide doping on the dissolution behaviors and APT analyses of simplified nuclear waste glasses