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MRS to Compile Database on Advanced Materials Research The Materials Research Society (MRS) and Synergistic Technologies, Inc. (STI) will collaborate on a project to catalog key materials scientists, their laboratories, and their research in a one-of-itskind database. The Advanced Engineering Materials Research Profile will focus primarily on researchers in the North American university laboratory, national laboratory, and federally funded laboratory communities. It will be released in Spring 1994 and will be available in both book (directory) and computer database formats. The project was conceived and developed by MRS in partnership with STI, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. STI has been involved in cataloguing academic research in a variety of scientific disciplines, working with such groups as Semiconductor Research Corp., Air & Waste Management Association, and Carolina Biotechnology Center. The purpose of the profile is to provide an information system that will make it possible for the resources of university and national laboratories to be fully utilized. "Advances in materials and pro-
cessing are vital for our country," said Tom Picraux, president of the Materials Research Society. "Through this database, we will bring together—for the first time—information on materials researchers in the key sectors of university and federal laboratories. This will enable us to assist directly in the important task of pulling the myriad materials R&D activities into a more coherent and accessible format." Picraux further explained that, because of limits on financial resources, and due to the fact that in most industries R&D must focus on short-term goals, it is now particularly important that university and national laboratory resources be utilized for long-term progress. "We also believe that the profile will have a significant impact on furthering MRS's longtime goal of improving communication and coordination between industry, academia, and government," he said. "The directory represents one positive step the Society can take in this direction. We anticipate that, as technology transfer becomes increasingly important, the profile's data will be valuable to
our members, to government funding agencies, and to industrial users." Picraux noted that MRS has always sought to address important interdisciplinary problems and to provide quality information in the area of materials, as exemplified by the MRS meetings. "The database will be a natural extension of that philosophy," he said. "Just as scientists and engineers turn to MRS meetings for new perspectives and unmatched interaction, they will now be able to turn also to the profile for a degree of detail, at the individual researcher level, available nowhere else." Those who are materials researchers in North American universities, national laboratories, or federally funded laboratories, and who have not yet received a questionnaire form for the Advanced Engineering Materials Research Profile, should fax Synergistic Technologies, Inc. at (919) 676-0542, or sen
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