As we stand on the threshold of a new year and all the opportunity it will offer us, we take a moment to anticipate highlights of the ACerS 2016 year.
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Larry Hench, ACerS Distinguished Life Member and Fellow, lost his battle with cancer on Wednesday, Dec. 16. He turned 77 in November.
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The UGSC has issued a request for proposals to answer the fundamental question, “Where and how do flaws nucleate in glass?” Deadline is March 1, 2016.
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The international glass community has lost one of its luminaries—Adli Bishay, professor emeritus at American University in Cairo, Egypt. Memorial services are planned for Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. at the AUC Tahrir Campus in Cairo.
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The American Ceramic Society extends its sympathy and concern to its French members and friends, and to the people of Paris as they recover from the November 13 terrorist attacks. May peace prevail.
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This was the 76th edition of the Conference on Glass Problems (GPC), and the fourth year that it was organized by the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC) in partnership with Alfred University.
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Nobody officially declared this to be “Glass Week,” but when five events significant to the glass manufacturing community occur in a compressed timeframe it is tantamount to a cosmic proclamation of Glass Week.
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President Kathleen Richardson provided a “State of the Society” overview and informed the membership of Society activities at the 117th Annual Meeting on Monday, October 5, 2015.
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In a video tribute, former students of the late Hamlin Jennings remember how he taught them to conduct scientific inquiry and to think broadly and without prejudice.
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