ACerS Awards and Honors

Education and Professional Development Council: Outstanding Educator Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

The purpose of the award is to recognize truly outstanding work and creativity in teaching, in directing student research, or in the general educational process (lectures, publications, etc.) of ceramic educators.

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ACerS/EPDC: Greaves-Walker Lifetime Service Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

The Greaves-Walker Lifetime Service Award honors a founding member and the first president of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE); currently, the newly formed Education and Professional Development Council (EPDC). It is presented to an individual who has rendered outstanding service to the ceramic engineering profession and who, by life and career, has exemplified the aims, ideals and purpose of EPDC.

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ACerS/EPDC: Arthur L. Friedberg Ceramic Engineering Tutorial and Lecture

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

This ACerS/Education and Professional Development Council (EPDC) lecture honors the memory of Arthur L. Friedberg for his teaching, research and numerous contributions to the ceramic engineering profession. The lecture is intended to provide a tutorial that reviews and instructs in some area of ceramics with a distinct engineering flavor. The lecture is presented at a level that is accessible to all ceramists.

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Refractory Ceramics Division: Alfred W. Allen Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

This biennial award was established to honor Alfred W. Allen’s legacy as an educator, technical contributor and supporter of the Refractory Ceramics Division. The award committee will review the technical literature of the last two years and select the author(s) of the technical paper on refractory ceramics that reflects the highest level of technical quality.

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Energy Materials and Systems Division: Student Stipend for ACerS Annual Meeting/MS&T

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

The Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division of The American Ceramic Society is sponsoring two stipends in the amount of $500 each to help fund students in attending MS&T combined with the ACerS Annual Meeting. These stipends are targeted at deserving students with current or future interests in the nuclear and/or environmental fields of ceramic and materials engineering. Student participation in NETD sponsored symposia through an oral or poster presentation is encouraged but not required.

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Energy Materials and Systems Division: D.T. Rankin Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

This award recognizes a member of the Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division who has demonstrated exemplary service to the division.

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Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division: Best Student Presentation Award

By / April 2, 2013

The NETD Best Student Presentation Award is open to any undergraduate or graduate student making an oral presentation at an NETD-sponsored symposia during the Annual Meeting of the Society, held in conjunction with MS&T.

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Energy Materials and Systems Division: Outstanding Student Researcher Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

The Outstanding Student Researcher (OSR) Award recognizes exemplary student research related to the mission of the NETD. 

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Glass & Optical Materials Division: Stookey Lecture of Discovery

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

This award recognizes an individual’s lifetime of innovative exploratory work or noteworthy contributions of outstanding research on new materials, phenomena, or processes involving glass, that have commercial significance or the potential for commercial impact.

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Glass & Optical Materials Division: George W. Morey Award

By Deidre Haignere / April 2, 2013

The George W. Morey Award is presented by the Glass and Optical Materials Division of ACerS and sponsored by Guardian Glass. The award recognizes new and original work in the field of glass science and technology. The criterion for winning the award is excellence in publication of work, either experimental or theoretical, done by an individual. The award committee will select each year’s winner.

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