Posts by Lisa McDonald
Scenes (pt. 3) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12
Here is my last batch of photos from Pittsburgh last week. We will be uploading more pictures on the ACerS…
Read More$20M in public-private advanced manufacturing grants announced
Readers may recall that the Obama administration’s Material Genome Initiative is actually just a piece of the broader Advanced Manufacturing…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial…
Read MoreMeaningful hand-waving: Purdue group demos design tool that tracks hand motions to create shapes
Purdue doctoral student, Vinayak, demonstrates Handy-Potter to create a three-dimensional object. He is represented by a stick figure in the…
Read MorePopular Mechanics awards breakthrough innovators and products
Cubify, a manufacturer of “affordable” desktop 3D printers, was named one of Popular Mechanics magazine’s Breakthrough Product Awards for 2012.…
Read MoreMoskowitz speaks on Ceradyne–3M deal, his future with 3M and his Distinguished Life Member award
Joel Moskowitz, founder and CEO of the Ceradyne Inc., is well respected as a successful entrepreneur and someone with great…
Read MoreNSF to fund $12M for first ‘designing materials’ DMREF awards in support of MGI
In support of the federal Materials Genome Initiative, the NSF has just announced the first projects to receive funding awards…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Morgan Ceramics promotes efficiencies in Asia’s power sector through next-gen thermal insulation solutions and precision-engineering…
Read MoreScenes (pt. 2) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12
There were several pre-MS&T’12 events over the weekend before the mega-meeting’s official reception Sunday night, including the start of The…
Read MoreScenes from the 114th ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12 in Pittsburgh
Peter and I are in Pittsburgh, Pa., along with about 3,000 materials scientists, engineers, vendors and students for MS&T’12 and…
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