Frans Spaepen Receives 1998 Woody Award
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other countries within South America, maintaining SAM-Delegations in Brazil and Chile, countries from which many researchers and Professionals habitually artend the annual SAM meetings. Jorge N. Feugeas (Instituto de Fisica Rosario, IFIR) is the president of SAM, Liliana Nosei (Instituto de Macänica Apli-
cada y Estructuras, Universidad Nadonal de Rosario) is Secretary, Jorge O. Tormo (Instituto Argentino d e Siderurgia) is Treasurer, and Ludo Iurman (Universidad Nacional del Sur) is Past-President. The Council members are Carlos Gonzalez Oliver (Comisiön Nacional de Energia Atömica), Juan E. Perez Ipifta (Universidad
del Comahue), Jose Ovejero Garda (Comi siön Nadonal de Energia Atömica), and Ricardo Romero (Universidad Nadonal del Centro de la Provinda de Buesnos Aires).
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Frans Spaepen Receives 1998 Woody Award Frans Spaepen, Gordon McKay Pro fessor of Applied Physics at Harvard University and Director of H a r v a r d ' s Materials Research Laboratory, is the redpient of the 1998 Materials Research Sodety Woody Award. Robert J. Nemanidi, 1998 MRS president, made the presentation to Spaepen at the 1998 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. The Woody Award, which recognizes "outstanding service and dedication on behalf of MRS as exemplified by Woody White, MRS president, 1984," is bestowed annually by the Sodety president to a Sin gle individual for his or her extraordinary contributions to MRS. Spaepen's service includes over five consecutive years as chair of the Program Committee, which is a leadership role critical to the development of the Soriety's technical meetings. "Our meetings are different from any other Society's," said Nemanich. "Our programs start from a clean slate and are reinvented with every meeting. Frans understands this process. His broad knowledge of materials research and the way he is able work with the meeting chairs to bring ideas together in developing our programs inspire our confidence in his leadership." 1997 MRS p r e s i d e n t Robert Hüll echoed N e m a n i c h ' s w o r d s , p r a i s i n g Spaepen's "encyclopedic knowledge of materials science" and calling him "one of the leading materials researchers in the world today." "Frans has played an enormous role in
Frans Spaepen (left) receives the 1998 Woody Award, presented by Materials Research Society president Robert J. Nemanich (right).
the success of MRS meetings for many years," said Hüll. "He is diplomatic and persuasive, enormously effident, competent, and effective in his role as chair of the Program Committee. He's an absolute joy to work with." In addition to his service to MRS as chair of the Program Committee, Spaepen has contributed to the Sodety as a Symposium Organizer (1985, 1987), a Meeting Chair (Fall 1990), and as a member of Council (1986-1988 and 1990-1992). "During his years on Council, Frans was widely re-
spected for his thoughtful counsel," said Julia M. Phillips, 1995 MRS president, who served with Spaepen as a fellow Coundllor in the early 1990s. A native of Flanders, Spaepen received an undergr
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