Council Approves MRS Archival Journal, Expands Benefits, Develops Broad International Relations
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Council Approves MRS Archival Journal, Expands Student Benefits, Develops Broad International Relations The Council of the Materials Research Society meets twice a year during the annual Fall and Spring Meetings of the Society. The Council includes I 5 MRS members who serve three-year terms. Five new Councillors are elected by the membership of the Society each year. The Executive Committee consisting of the Officers of the Society also serve as members of the Council. The following two reports summarize Council actions taken during the last two meetings which affect activities and services under development for the membership.
MRS Council Meeting (December 1984) R. L. Schwoebel Secretary
The Materials Research Society Council Meeting at Boston, November 30-December 1,1984, following the Fall Meeting of MRS, included over 35 people and considered a variety of important new features in the life of the Society. 1984 MRS President Woody White began the meeting by proclaiming 1984 a banner year for MRS. He stated that the 1984 Boston meeting was a great success and had included many fine new activities. Approximately 2,000 people attended this meeting, and as of November MRS membership totaled approximately 2,500 members. As the outgoing President of the Materials Research Society, White received from Harry Leamy the MRS Woody Award for outstanding service as President to the Society. Some of the items covered during the Council Meeting included: • The Council welcomed Bill Koch from the American Institute of Physics who discussed and elaborated on the possible interactions between the Materials Research Society and the American Institute of Physics. Koch recommended that MRS develop a journal as soon as possible and indicated that AIP could be of great help to MRS in this area. He noted that the infrastructure already established by AIP for journal distribution was a very important component of starting a new journal and that AIP had, in fact, considered the initiation of a journal in the materials area itself. The recommendation by Koch stimulated a good deal of discussion within the Council and in particular, John Baglin and Dave Campbell reported on their study of the possibility of initiating an MRS journal. There was very strong sentiment for initiating an archival journal and the Council agreed to instruct the Publications Committee and the Director of Publications to pursue negotiations for a journal arrangement with the American Institute of Physics. The Council also agreed that the journal should clearly reflect the broad scope of the Materials Research Society. In the area of publications, Harry Leamy also discussed plans for the MRS BULLETIN in 1985. In 1985, the BULLETIN is attempting to include a good deal more material such as editorials, book reviews, technical reviews, etc., and an editorial board is being established to oversee that activity.
• One of the new activities evident at the 1984 Fall Meeting was the establishment of a Job Placement Center. The Job Placement Center was organized for the f
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