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Kelvin Droegemeier is Regents’ Professor of Meteorology, Weathernews Chair Emeritus, and Teigen Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he served for nearly a decade as Vice President for…

Ludovic Valette leads Owens-Illinois technology and engineering, key areas critical to the company’s performance and transformation, and is part of the Global Leadership Team reporting to the Company’s CEO. He…

Wendell P. Weeks has served as Corning’s chief executive officer since April 2005 and chairman of the board since April 2007. He has been a member of the company’s board…

Stephen Eskilson is Professor of Art History at Eastern Illinois University.  Eskilson received his PhD in 1995 from Brown University. Aside from his book The Age of Glass (Bloomsbury 2017),…

Dr. Dana Goski is currently Vice-President of Research & Development at Allied Mineral Products, LLC, where she guides global research initiatives and innovation in high temperature refractory ceramic materials. Dr.…

Mike O’Driscoll is an independent consultant and freelance writer with over 30 years experience in the international mining and minerals industry, specializing in industrial minerals and markets. He is co-owner…

Carol Jackson is Chairman and CEO of HarbisonWalker International (HWI), the largest supplier of refractory products and services in the U.S. Previously, she was Senior Vice President and General Manager…

Sabyasachi Sen obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from Stanford University where he was a postdoctoral fellow until 1997.  He then joined the Faculty of Physics at the University of Wales…

Efstratios I. Kamitsos is Director of Research at the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece After obtaining his Diploma in Chemistry from the…

Bilge Yildiz is the Breene M. Kerr (1951) Professor in the Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she…