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2012 Ballot

By / June 24, 2009

***Voting is now closed*** The annual election for the 2012 President-Elect, Board of Directors, and Division and Class Officers is officially closed. Thank you for your participation.

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Login to Vote

By / June 24, 2009

Attention Members: You must login to vote for the 2012 candidates. Please note only paid individual members (excluding students) are eligible to vote.

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Bioglass from Concept to Clinic: A 40-year Retrospective

By / June 24, 2009

This ACerS video is a lecture by Larry Hench given at the PACRIM8 Conference in June 2009 in Vancouver. Hench has been at the forefront of the revolution that has…

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Doreen Edwards: Ceramic and Materials Education at Alfred University

By / June 24, 2009

Doreen Edwards, the associated dean of engineering at Alfred University, discusses the state of ceramics and material science higher education at Alfred and the trends she sees unfolding in universities across the United States.

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Miscellaneous industry headlines

By / June 24, 2009

SCI Engineered Materials receives $1 million thin film solar order Thresher Industries selects the Cal Poly’s materials engineering program to set up testing protocol Bekaert introduces one-piece rotatable AZO target…

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Joseph Miller: Global R&D and Innovation in Glass and Ceramics at Corning

By / June 24, 2009

This was the lead lecture at the PACRIM8 conference in Vancouver in June 2009. How often does a major company publicly explain and acknowledge its past mistakes, and reveal – in depth – how it is turning itself around?

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VW gearing up to produce world’s most economic car

By / June 23, 2009

Volkswagen is gearing up for a limited production of the VW-1L, named for its ability to travel 100 km on 1 L of gas, or 285 mi. per gallon. A…

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Larry Hench: Bioglass From Concept to Clinic: A 40-year Retrospective

By / June 23, 2009

Larry Hench has been at the forefront of the revolution that has occurred in the past four decades in the field of bioactive glass.

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Victoria Knox: Learning about ceramic processing, photocatalysis and her experience at Alfred University

By / June 23, 2009

Victoria Knox is a young scientist and doctoral student at Alfred University. She discusses her research in the areas of ceramic processing and photocatalysis, and the applications for materials such as alumina.

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Harnessing jet streams

By / June 23, 2009

Wired Magazine reported last week that 28 years of wind data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Department of Energy have been analyzed to study geographical distributions,…

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