This award recognizes truly outstanding work and creativity in teaching and mentoring, in directing student research, or in the general educational process (lectures, publications on education, workshops, textbooks, short courses, videos, interest lectures, etc.) among ceramic/glass educators.
Nomination Process
Any interested individual or group may nominate a person. A three-page curriculum vitae description of teaching efforts and consequences of this work will be used for the judging.
The nomination might include descriptions of professional preparation (educational background and training), professional appointments, descriptions of typical ceramic courses taught, descriptions of courses or labs developed, or videos created by the individual, data on number of these supervised, a publication list highlighting books, reviews, or tutorial articles, descriptions of educational programs developed, and educational service within the broader ceramics community. A nomination will be active, and therefore, considered for five (5) years.
The EPDC Awards Committee and the two immediate past recipients of the award will select the awardee.
Contact
Erica Zimmerman
The American Ceramic Society
470 Olde Worthington Road, Suite 200
Westerville, OH 43082
Phone: 614-794-5821
Award Winners
Gregory S. Rohrer
Prof. Gregory Rohrer received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Franklin and Marshall College, his Doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1990, where he is the W.W. Mullins University Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. From 2005 to 2021, he was the Head of the Department. Prof. Rohrer has authored or co-authored more than 360 publications. His technical contributions have been in surfaces and grain boundaries, where he discovered mechanisms for charge separation in oxide photocatalysts, grain boundary texture within polycrystalline materials, and grain boundary energy changes associated with complexion transitions. He has also developed methods for three-dimensional microstructure analysis and grain boundary property measurement. Rohrer is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, received the Cyril Stanley Smith Award from TMS, the Andrew Carnegie Lecture Award from ASM, and the Sapphire Prize from the Journal of Materials Science. In 2011, Rohrer served as chair of the University Materials Council. Within The American Ceramic Society, Rohrer was chair of the Basic Science Division and was a member of the Board of Directors. He is also a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society and has received the Ross Coffin Purdy Award, the Roland B. Snow Award, the Richard M. Fulrath Award, the Robert B. Sosman Award, and the W. David Kingery Award.
Rohrer’s current research activities are focused on grain boundary complexions and grain boundary migration. He is also currently the Coordinating Editor for the Acta Materialia family of Journals.