ACerS Bulletin

December ACerS Bulletin and ceramicSOURCE directory

By Jim Destefani / November 25, 2013

Hitting mailboxes soon, the December issue of the ACerS Bulletin is a keeper—it features our annual ceramicSOURCE directory, your comprehensive guide to suppliers of ceramic materials, production equipment, services, and more.

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October/November ACerS Bulletin: Ceramics in Canada and Mexico, 2014 meetings, and more

By Jim Destefani / September 26, 2013

The October/November issue of the ACerS Bulletin will be in subscribers’ mailboxes soon, and it’s loaded with exclusive content you just won’t find anywhere else.

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Friday funny from the past

By Jim Destefani / August 30, 2013

We reached way back for this cartoon, which first appeared in the November 1953 issue of the Bulletin. It’s a fun take on a problem that still faces employers nearly…

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September ACerS Bulletin: Innovation, refractories, and meetings galore

By Jim Destefani / August 19, 2013

  The September issue of the ACerS Bulletin should be in subscribers’ mailboxes soon, and it’s chock full of content sure to be of interest for readers.   Our cover…

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Friday funny from the past

By Jim Destefani / June 28, 2013

Digging into the archives again—this one is from the June 1958 ACerS Bulletin. For our bifocalled readers (which includes us), the sign says “Crude Pots, Inc. Prehistoric Ceramics.”

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Friday funny from the past

By Jim Destefani / June 21, 2013

Just for fun, we delved into the ACerS Bulletin archives and found this cartoon from the March 1954 issue. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

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A changing of the guard at ACerS—Peter retires, Jim signs on

By Eileen De Guire / May 14, 2013

There’s a new pen in town! For the last five years, ACerS Director of Communications Peter Wray has been the dominant voice of the engineered ceramics blogosphere. In fact, he…

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Friday funny—A mixed up miller and a bawling employer?

By Eileen De Guire / April 12, 2013

I found this cartoon while poking through our archives, and it made me chuckle. Perhaps you will, too! It was published in the August 1954 ACerS Bulletin.

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New Critical Materials Hub to take broad approach to rare earths, other strategic materials

By / January 17, 2013

The launch of the DOE’s $120 million Critical Materials Institute (nee “Hub”), the fifth energy innovation-oriented “integrated research center” initiated by the Obama administration, strikes me as mainly a balanced…

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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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