ACerS news

Peter distills his picks for the top 5 posts for 2012

By / December 31, 2012

My list is much more straightforward than Eileen’s. I find that restraint and discipline comes with age. Mostly. (Eileen adds—See Peter’s fifth story. We’re even!) Anyway, I crafted my list…

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Eileen’s five fave CTT posts in 2012 (and her liberal interpretation of the number five)

By Eileen De Guire / December 31, 2012

Background image: Molten glass. Credit: Michael Germann; Dreamstime.com. Peter and I thought it would be fun to share our five favorite posts from 2012. Finding that choosing only five was…

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NBC News: Glass cookware complaints in the US on the rise; finds Bulletin story sound

By / December 29, 2012

A while back I wrote a blog post about a story featured in the September issue of ACerS’ Bulletin by R.C. Bradt and R.L Martens, “Shattering Glass Cookware.” This story addressed the apparent…

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Happy holidays and season’s greetings, from The American Ceramic Society & Ceramic Tech Today

By / December 21, 2012
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New in the Jan-Feb ACerS Bulletin—Testing and characterization of ceramics

By Eileen De Guire / December 21, 2012

On the cover: Cai Zhonghou, beamline scientist at the Advanced Proton Source at Argonne National Laboratory loads a sample into an X-ray nanodiffractometer stage. The cover story reports on the…

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ACerS offers special holiday dues discount for CTT readers

By / December 14, 2012

Just in time for the Holidays—here is a special offer for Ceramic Tech Today readers and subscribers who are not already ACerS members. This blog is a project of The American…

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Glass Commission, Penn State looking for young scientist Weyl award nominations

By / December 14, 2012

In 2010, Corning’s John Mauro (center) won the W.A. Weyl Award, which was presented by ICG President Fabiano Nicoletti and Penn State’s Carlo Pantano. Nominations are now open for the 2013…

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ceramicSOURCE now available in December Bulletin

By Eileen De Guire / November 27, 2012

They say, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” The just-published 2012-13 ceramicSOURCE buyer’s guide gives you access to more than 700 vendors worldwide that serve the ceramics…

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Video: Varshneya recounts mentor’s influence in Cooper Lecture

By Eileen De Guire / November 6, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/varshneya_cooperlecture_12.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/varshneya_cooperlecture_12.jpg}] Arun Varshneya delivers the Cooper Lecture titled, “Science and Technology of Chemical Strengthening of Glass,” at MS&T’12. Serendipity was smiling on Arun Varshneya when he met…

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ACerS/NIST phase diagrams collection enters 80th year

By Eileen De Guire / October 23, 2012

Ideas that stand the test of time often have modest beginnings. The ACerS/NIST Phase Equilibria Diagram database is a case in point. The seed for today’s collection of nearly 25,000…

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