Benson Tolle leads MRS Board of Directors for 2014
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n January 1, Tia Benson Tolle (The Boeing Company) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society for 2014, after serving as vice president/president-elect for 2013. She succeeded Orlando Auciello (University of Texas at Dallas), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Oliver Kraft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) was elected vice president/presidentelect. Sean J. Hearne (Sandia National Laboratories) was re-elected as MRS secretary and Michael R. Fitzsimmons (Los Alamos National Laboratory), appointed by the Board of Directors, continues to serve as MRS treasurer. The newly elected members to the MRS Board of Directors are Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University; C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico; Hideo Hosono, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Kornelius Nielsch, University of Hamburg; and Loucas Tsakalakos, General Electric–Global Research Center. They join continuing Board of Directors Shenda M. Baker, Synedgen, Inc.; David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science; Stephen J. Eglash, Stanford University; Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Susan Ermer, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center; Eric Garfunkel, Rutgers University; Sossina M. Haile, California Institute of Technology; Andrea M. Hodge, University of Southern California; Fiona C. Meldrum, University of Leeds; Eric A. Stach, Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Stephen K. Streiffer, Argonne National Laboratory.
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MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 39 • JANUARY 2014
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Tia Benson Tolle President
Center, NASA. She holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and MS and PhD degrees in materials engineering from the University of Dayton. Benson Tolle has been active on several MRS committees and has served as a symposium organizer. She is also a Fellow in the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). She served as SAMPE Executive Cabinet Officer (1998–2005) and as the International President (2005–2006). In 2013, Tolle served as MRS vice president/ president-elect.
Oliver Kraft Vice President/President-Elect
Tia Benson Tolle is Director of Advanced Materials in Boeing Commercial Airplane’s Innovation Center & Technology. In this position she has responsibility for a targeted technology portfolio spanning metals, composites, finishes, and assemblies for Product Development. Previously, she held the position of Technology Director of the Nonmetallic Materials Division at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. Her research focus has been on advanced polymeric composite materials, and has spanned basic research through transition to aerospace weapons systems, working with academia, industry, government, and international collaborations. Prior to this, she has held several technical leadership positions within Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufactu
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