Gibala Leads Executive Committee in 1999
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Gibala Leads Executive Committee in 1999
Robert J. Nemanich Ronald Gibala (University of Michigan) automatically assumes the presidency of the Materials Research Society for 1999, after serving as Vice Président (PresidentElect) in 1998. He succeeds Robert J. Nemanich from North Carolina State University, who now serves MRS as Immédiate Past Président. Harry A. Atwater (California Institute of Technology) has been elected Vice Président (President-Elect). Chuang Chuang Tsai (Applied Komatsu Technology) remains Secretary, serving the second of her two-year term, and Merrilea J. Mayo (Pennsylvania State University) has been elected for a two-year term as Treasurer. Mayo is currently serving as the 1998-1999 Optical Society of America/Materials Research Society Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow, and will step into her rôle as Treasurer on September 1,1999, when her Fellow tenure is completed. In the intérim, Alan J. Hurd (Sandia National Laboratories) has been appointed by the MRS Council to serve as Treasurer through August 31,1999. The Council has elected two Councillors to serve one-year terms on the Executive Committee: Michael J. Aziz (Harvard University) and Alex King (State University of New York 56
Michael J. Aziz at Stony Brook). The newly elected MRS Councillors are John W. Cahn, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Anthony K. Cheetham, University of California—Santa Barbara; A. Lindsay Gréer, Cambridge University; Stephen J. Pennycook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Caroline A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Rudolf M. Tromp, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. They will serve three-year terms beginning January 1,1999, and join the following current members of Council: Michael J. Aziz; Katayun (Katy) Barmak, Lehigh University; Théodore M. Besmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; David J. Eaglesham, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; Alex King; Karen Maex, IMEC, Belgium; Amy J. Moll, Hewlett Packard; Tim Sands, University of California—Berkeley; and Alan I. Taub, Ford Motor Company. Ronald Gibala Président Ronald Gibala is a professor in and former chair of the D e p a r t m e n t of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He directs the Center for High Température Structural
Alex King Metallic Materials, an interdisciplinary program funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. His current research interests are in the area of mechanical behavior of materials, particularly intermetallic alloys and related quasi-brittle materials. After receiving his PhD degree in 1964 in metallurgical engineering from the University of fllinois at Urbana-Charnpaign, Gibala taught at Case Western Reserve University from 1964 to 1984 and was associate director and director of the CWRU Materials Research Laboratory during the latter part of that time. He joined the University of Michigan in 1984. Gibala has served on numerous advisory committees and participated in various professional societies. He served as Councillor on the MRS Executive Committee
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