Dr. Carolina Tallon is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a member of the Advanced Manufacturing Team at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on near-net-shaping and advanced manufacturing of ceramics for extreme environments, with an emphasis on developing techniques that allow bulk large size complex geometry components with tunable microstructure,…
Read MoreThe Anna O. Shepard Award, honors this scientist’s pioneering work in the analysis and description of pottery and ceramics from 1930 to 1973. Her technical foundation serves to integrate multiple methods of analysis in order to describe the chemical, physical and crystallographic properties of art and archaeological materials, the geological and natural resources used in…
Read MoreThis travel fund recognizes the special bond of knowledge, trust, and growth between a teacher (“Guru“) and a student (“Chela“), benefitting both. Among the many examples of such special bond within the GOMD, the relationship between the late Professor Alfred R. Cooper and students Arun Varshneya and Prabhat Gupta can be recalled with fondness. This…
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Ronald G. Polcawich is a Program Manager at DARPA in the Microsystems Technology Office and currently on detail to DARPA from the Micro & Nano Materials & Devices Branch of US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi, MD. He received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1997), and M.S. degree in…
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Winnie Wong-Ng is a senior research chemist in the Materials Measurement Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland. She received a B. Sc. degree in Chemistry from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Ph.D. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Louisiana State University, followed by post-doctoral and research associate/lecturer appointments…
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Minoru Tomozawa is Professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, USA. He received a BS degree in Electrochemistry at Yokohama National University in Japan, and a Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Post-Doctoral Research…
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Richard K. Brow currently serves as Curators’ Professor of Ceramic Engineering and Interim Director, Center for Biomedical Research at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in Rolla, MO. He received his BS in Ceramic Engineering (1980) and MS in Glass Science (1982) from the NYS College of Ceramics/Alfred University; PhD in Ceramic Science…
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Dawn Bonnell received her BA and PhD from the University of Michigan, was a Fulbright scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, at IBM Thomas Watson Research Center (1986-1988), then joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1988-). She has >260 publications and 7 edited books. She received the Presidential Young Investigator Award, Ross Coffin…
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Jingyang Wang is the Distinguished Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and division head of the Advanced Ceramics and Composites Division at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), CAS, China. He received a B.S. of Physics from Peking University, China (1992), and M.S. (1995) and Ph.D…
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David A. Lange is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He arrived at Illinois in 1992, and developed a research group focusing on concrete materials, including microstructure-property relationships, characterization of pore structure, drying phenomenon and measurement of internal relative humidity gradients, shrinkage/creep, and cracking. Special topics such as self-consolidating concrete,…
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