ACerS Awards and Honors

Kevin M. Fox

Kevin M. Fox

By Deidre Haignere / June 18, 2013

Dr. Kevin M. Fox retired as Fellow Engineer from the Savannah River National Laboratory in 2020.  His work focused on the development of glass and ceramic materials for the safe…

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Michel W. Barsoum

By Deidre Haignere / June 18, 2013

Michel W. Barsoum is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University. He is an internationally recognized leader in the area of MAX phases with…

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Volker Presser

By Deidre Haignere / June 13, 2013

Volker Presser is Leader of the Junior Investigator Group “Energy Materials” at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, and Assistant Professor at the Department for Materials Science and…

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Linda Jones

By Deidre Haignere / May 23, 2013

Linda E. Jones is Professor of Engineering, Vice President and Head of the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.   She took a B.S. in Chemistry and…

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Nava Setter

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Structure and Functions of Ferroic Domain Walls Nava Setter completed her MSc in Civil Engineering at the Technion (Israel) and PhD in Solid State Science at the Pennsylvania State University…

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Sheldon M. Wiederhorn

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Griffith Cracks at the Nanoscale   Sheldon M. Wiederhorn received his B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 1956 and his M.S. (1958) and Ph.D. (1960) from the…

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Greg Hilmas

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Engineered Structural Ceramic Materials: Novel Methods for Increasing Toughness, Wear Resistance and Thermal Shock Greg Hilmas joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (now…

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Jun Tsutsumi

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

  Jun Tsutsumi is a manager in the microdevice research & development department at Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Akashi, Japan.   He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering…

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Yuji Kintaka

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Dr. Yuji Kintaka is associate chief researcher in the New Process Development Center of Murata Manufacturing Corporation, Ltd. in Japan. His current research interest is solution synthesis of powders for…

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Yuji Noguchi

By Deidre Haignere / May 14, 2013

Yuji Noguchi received a bachelor’s degree, an M.S degree in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. degree in materials science from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. He is an Associate Professor…

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