Posts by Lisa McDonald
Cements division announces officers, fellows, Brunauer Award and posters winner
Monday was a busy day at the Cements Division meeting, hosted by Vandy’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with…
Read MoreMetallic conductivity in high-temperature cement
With the Cements Division meeting wrapping up in Nashville, Tenn. this week, an article in the July 1 issue of…
Read MoreLive blogging from the Cements meeting in Nashville
Today I am at the Cements Division’s annual meeting being held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The meeting, which…
Read MoreCustomizing medical prostheses with mathematics and additive manufacturing
Topological optimization can be used to custom design prosthetic implants. Mathematics—the common language of science and engineering—often proves to be…
Read MoreJapan’s leaders still struggling with post-Fukushima decisions
I don’t envy Japanese policy makers. The long-term economic and societal affects that continue to echo from the Fukushima Dai-ichi…
Read MoreNASA: Is it worth every half-penny?
The final Space Shuttle mission was completed on Thursday with the landing of Atlantis in Florida. In this video, astrophysicist…
Read MoreACerS journals strong and growing: 2010 impact factors and other metrics
Most participants in the scholarly publishing process take a keen interest in the journal impact factor, a yearly metric issued…
Read MoreA vibrant PACRIM9 ‘down under’
Recently returned from Cairns, Australia, Charlie Spahr, ACerS executive director, reports that PACRIM9 was a successful, and distinctly Australian, conference:…
Read MoreGet flexible: Georgia Tech group shows how to ‘draw’ nano-sized ferroelectric structures on plastic substrates
“We can directly create piezoelectric materials of the shape we want, where we want them, on flexible substrates,” says Nazanin…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Rankings of the world’s largest ceramic tile and sanitaryware producers RAK group (United Arab Emirates)…
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