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Picraux Addresses Science Attache's Club The diplomatic staff posted to the embassies of most nations includes at least one, if not several, individuals trained in technical areas and assigned to handle issues and information concerning science and technology developments in the host country. Whether they are career diplomats, or persons on temporary leave from universities, industries, or government institutions at home, they have many common interests. In Washington, DC, this commonality is served by the Science Attache's Club, which claims the membership of more than 80 S&T counsellors from about fifty embassies. Tom Picraux, 1993 MRS president, was invited to address the Club at a luncheon meeting on April 27. Local arrangements for MRS were handled by the MRS Office of Public Affairs through its Washington Representative, Ronald L. Kelley. The Science Attache's Club arrangements were managed by Club secretary P.M. op den Brouw (The Netherlands) and the event was hosted by the Embassy of France (France being the home country of current Club president, Claude Wolff). Picraux's presentation was introduced by Elton N. Kaufmann, chair of the MRS
Subcommittee on Public Affairs, who provided an overview of the character and importance of the field of advanced materials. Picraux then described the broad spectrum of MRS activities, the Society's growth in recent years and, in particular, the unique interdisciplinary approach MRS takes in providing services to its members and to the materials community. Throughout, Picraux noted the strong international participation MRS enjoys in such areas as membership, the authorship and readership of Journal of Materials Research, and corporate support. He concluded by describing how the interdisciplinary formula has emerged in numerous places around the world in the form of new societies, and in the recent formal chartering of the International Union of Materials Research Societies. The luncheon ended with a question-and-answer session and discussion about MRS, IUMRS, and advanced materials in general. "MRS was very pleased to have the opportunity to describe its activities to this prestigious and diverse group," Kaufmann said. "It was especially appropriate that this event took place one week before the meeting of the European MRS, thus emphasizing the truly international
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MRS president Tom Picraux addresses the Science Attache's Club in Washington, DC.
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