For the last twenty-two years, Pamela B. Vandiver has been Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Co-Director of the Program in Heritage Conservation Science, Head of the Laboratory for Cultural Materials, and Adjunct Professor in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. From 1985 through 2003, she was senior research scientist in ceramics at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to 1985, she spent thirteen years at M.I.T where she started the MIT Glass Lab (which is about to turn 50), completed the S.M. and Ph.D. in MSE, helped David Kingery and Frederick Matson organize the nine volume Ceramics and Civilization series and co-authored with W.D. Kingery the book Ceramic Masterpieces (a second edition will be published in 2023 by Wiley). Vandiver obtained a B.A. in history, art and Asian studies from Scripps College and a M.A. that included blown art glass, cast bronze and large ceramic sculptures. In 1989 she and Edward Sayre began the MRS symposium series, Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology; she has organized and co-edited all 11 volumes. In 2006 the Archaeological Institute of America presented the Pomerance Medal for her contributions to the field of archaeological science. She has published 224 papers that include: reconstructing the technology and use of the earliest ceramic figurines from 26,000 years ago, the processing and application by drawing of wet and dry pigments at Lascaux and other Paleolithic period caves in France, reverse engineering the plaster technologies in the pre-pottery Neolithic period and its development into pottery using the technology of sequential slab construction that was communicated throughout Southwest Asia, from Ukraine to Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt by 6400 BCE. Other research focii include the beginnings of glass technology in Egyptian and Mesopotamian faience and other glassy materials from ca. 4000-1500 BCE, the medieval glaze technology of Central Asia based on Ishkor plant ash, Chinese, Korean and Japanese high-temperature glazes, phase-separated glazes of Song dynasty, some European and American ceramics, Neolithic Yangshao and Longshan pottery production, Iron Age Kazakh pottery and Greek amphora from Corinth. Recently Vandiver, an ACerS Fellow, has headed the Art, Archaeology and Conservation Science Division of the ACerS, and some years ago, the Kingery award committee.