ACerS In Focus

At its Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, May 2018,  the Glass & Optical Materials Division awarded best graduate and undergraduate student poster prizes to the following winners. Thanks to Corning Incorporated for their sponsorship of the annual contest. Graduate Student Posters: 1st place: Hongshen Liu, Pennsylvania State University             …

The Engineering Ceramics Division is proud to announce their newest award recognizing early/mid-career women and minority professionals. Three individuals will be selected annually for the Engineering Ceramics Division’s Jubilee Global Diversity Award and will be invited to present at the International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC) in Daytona Beach, FL (annual…

The ECD Nominating Committee invites nominations for the incoming 2018–2019 division secretary candidate. Nominees will be presented for approval at the ECD Annual Business meeting at MS&T18 and included on the ACerS spring 2019 division officer ballot. Nominations and a short description of the candidate’s qualifications, should be submitted by August 15, 2018 to: Soshu…

Nominations for the ACerS 2019 Class of Fellows should be submitted by August 30, 2018 for award presentation at MS&T 2019. Fellows should be “persons of good reputation who have reached their 35th birthday and who have been members of the Society for at least the past five years continuously at the established nomination deadline date. They…

The Glass & Optical Materials Division has selected six outstanding glass scientists to present award lectures at the GOMD Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas from May 20-24, 2018.  The speakers, listed below in order of their lecture, are:  Stookey Lecture of Discovery: Monday, May 21, 8:00 am Wolfram Höland  Ivoclar Vivadent AG; lecturer, ETH…

The American Ceramics Society journal editors and staff are making the journals more accessible to the ACerS members with new initiatives and publishing changes.     • Division Papers:  Titles and links to recently published articles of interest to each division are posted on their websites on https://ceramics.org/divisions. We open these articles as free-to-read so…

The Engineering Ceramics Division invites nominations for the 2019 James I. Mueller, Bridge Building and Global Young Investigator awards. The deadline for submitting nominations for all three awards is July 1, 2018. The James I. Mueller Lecture recognizes the enormous contributions of James I. Mueller to the Engineering Ceramics Division and to the field of engineering ceramics.…

The ACerS Electronics Division presented awards for exceptional student work during the January 2018 Conference on Electronic and Advanced Materials in Orlando, Fla. Congratulations to these outstanding students: Poster competition First Place: William Huddleston; Case Western Reserve University Poster title: “Freeze casting of LAGP for 3D textured solid-state structural electrolytes” Second Place: Krishna Chaitanya Pitike; University of Connecticut…

The Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of up to 10 graduate students in materials science and engineering. The award is open to all graduate students who are making an oral presentation in any symposium or session at MS&T18. All papers must be submitted by March 15, 2018. The awards…