| NEWS | |
| The inaugural Morris E. Fine lecture was held on October 16th. Subra Suresh of MIT presented "Materials Science at the Intersections of Nanotechnology, Life Sciences and Human Health" to a full house in Ryan Auditorium. | |
| MSE welcomes new faculty member Ramille N. Shah. | |
| Improved gelcasting techniques for laminate manufacturing. Faber group results are featured in International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology more | |
| A paper co-authored by Tom Mason has won the 2009 American Ceramic Society Edward C. Henry Award for the best paper in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society on a subject related to electronic ceramics. He will receive the award at the upcoming American Ceramic Society meeting this October. | |
| David Dunand and collaborators have developed a shape-changing metal foam. more | |
| Tobin Marks has been named the winner of the 2009 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society. The award will be presented at the annual fall meeting in November. more | Ph.D. candidate Michelle Mok, a member of John Torkelson's research group, has won the 2009 Akzo-Nobel Student Award in Applied Polymer Science from the American Chemical Society. more |
| Greg Olson has been awarded the ASM 2010 Gold Medal for "contributions to understanding the science of steel, application of thermodynamics to the design of steel with prescribed properties, and applications of this design concept to industry and education.” He will receive the award at the 2010 MS&T meeting. | |
| David Seidman has been awarded the TMS Institute of Metals Lecture and the R.F. Mehl Award for 2010. He will present his lecture at the upcoming TMS annual meeting. | |
| Jiaxing Huang and group make insulators into conductors in a flash. more | |
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October 2009, MRS Bulletin Cover: Atom Probe Tomography
Guest Editors: David N. Seidman (Northwestern University) and Krystyna M. Stiller (Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University)