Lynnette Madsen

Buzz at MS&T15 focuses on diversity in materials science and engineering

By April Gocha / October 7, 2015

At presentations and events at MS&T15 in Columbus, Ohio, this week, a similar thread seemed to be running through this year’s conference—diversity.

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Latest ACerS Bulletin features South Korea and highlights burgeoning careers in ceramics

By April Gocha / September 18, 2015

The October/November issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring the annual international profile of the ceramics and glass industry and the annual CAREER award article—is now available online.

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Fire it up: March ACerS Bulletin—now available online—is all about refractories

By April Gocha / February 19, 2015

The March issue of the ACerS Bulletin—now available online—is heating things up with a theme centered on all things refractories.

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I come from a Land Down Under—Where the Bulletin goes to explore ceramic wonder

By April Gocha / September 18, 2014

The latest issue of the ACerS Bulletin—including features on the Australian ceramics industry, CAREER awards Ceramics Class of 2014, and the MS&T14 pre-meeting planner—is now available online!

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Corning Glass Research Summit nucleates game plan for glass science research

By Eileen De Guire / June 20, 2014

Corning Inc. execs are worried about the future. Facing a $30 billion global technical glass market, they see a mismatch between the pipeline of new glass researchers and the pipeline of opportunity for engineered glass products.

Last week the company held a Glass Research Summit to proactively work the problem.

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ACerS launches ‘New’ Art, Archaeology and Conservation Science Division

By Eileen De Guire / February 8, 2013

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/aacs_faber.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/aacs_faber.jpg}] (Updated) What do cutting edge materials research and the investigation of ancient ceramic pots have in common? More than you would probably think, and the connections…

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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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Data drives engineering of ceramics; workshop asks ‘how well?’

By Eileen De Guire / June 8, 2012

Steve Freiman opens a two-day workshop for about 30 participants to discuss the data needs and challenges facing the engineered ceramics and glass community. Credit: ACerS. Data. It is the…

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Who is going to do the work? Workforce development for ceramic and glass industries

By Eileen De Guire / April 13, 2012

Workforce development is more than developing undergraduate programs. Three sessions at ICC4 will address the global, diversity and career development issues for building a robust ceramics and glass workforce. The…

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DOE to hold Critical Materials Energy Innovation Hub workshop

By Eileen De Guire / March 26, 2012

A “criticality matrix” shows how the impact of supply risk for certain critical minerals. This matrix was developed by the National Research Council panel for a 2008 report, “Minerals, Critical…

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