Candidate Profiles: 1986 MRS Officers and Councillors
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Candidates for First Vice President (President-Elect) Jagdish Narayan Microelectronics Center of North Carolina and North Carolina State University
fill these vital positions by casting your election ballot by September 27, 1985. Please review the following profiles of candidates running foe the offices of First Vice President (President-Elect), Second Vice President, and five seats on Council. The elected individuals will begin their terms of office in January
1986. Your ballot has been mailed to you separately. Look for it, complete it, and return it as soon as possible to the Materials Research Society, 9800 McKnight Road, Suite 327, Pittsburgh, PAT 523 7.
processing of materials, radiation damage in materials, electron diffraction and microscopy, and defects and physical properties of materials. Narayan has served the Society in many capacities. In 1980, he initiated the symposium on Defects in Semiconductors, a series' that has become among the most popular offered at MRS meetings. In 1982, he cochaired the symposium on Laser-Solid Interactions and Transient Thermal Processing of Materials, and in 1983 he helped organize the symposium on Defect Properties and Processing of High-Technology Nonmetallic Materials. He was a program chair of the 1984 MRS Fall Meeting and also served on the 1984 Membership Committee. Narayan currently serves as Councillor for the Society.
in physical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1968. She joined GM Research Laboratories in 1970, where she is currently head of the Environmental Science Department. Her research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, surface chemistry, and enviromental science. In addition to her long association with MRS, she is a member of the American Chemical Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, and Air Pollution Control Association. Kathy Taylor's contributions to MRS are monumental and far-reaching. She is currently Second Vice President of MRS overseeing activities of the Education and Publications Committees. She is also a Councillor of the Society and a member of the Finance Committee. She served a fouryear tenure as MRS Treasurer (1980-84), and was responsible for the sound financial operation of the Society during a period of very rapid evolution and growth. She cochaired the symposium on Catalyst Preparation and Maintenance of Catalyst Activity at the 1979 Annual Meeting, where she also served as a program chair responsible for organizing the meeting. She served on the Select Committee which established the new MRS Headquarters. She was responsible for reviewing alternatives and means of implementing a permanent headquarters operation, and implemented the day-to-day financial operations at the newly established headquarters in 1983. Taylor conceived and implemented the Graduate Student Award Program in 1980, which she managed through 1984.
"Present and future advances in technology depend very much on the availability of novel and improved materials. The Materials Research Society is in a unique position to play an important role
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