International Relations
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Letter from the President
International Relations The Materials Research Society is an increasingly international organization. About 35% of our members work outside the United States, and this figure has been growing at a steady pace of about 1% per year, despite that our primary meetings take place in the United States, and that many of our nontechnical programs focus on the U.S. The scientific programs of our Spring and Fall Meetings attract researchers from around the globe and, indeed, we encourage international participation by including many from outside the States in our volunteer base, serving as Meeting Chairs, Symposium Organizers, and MRS Bulletin Volume Organizers. Even (or perhaps especially) in times of international tension, scientific research is an activity that largely transcends political borders. The research agenda may vary from nation to nation, reflecting local economic needs, but the discovery of scientific truth and the development of engineering capability depend only upon the quality and integrity of the minds involved, not where they work. MRS welcomes the differing perspectives and approaches to materials research that come with the worldwide participation in our meetings. They raise the level and improve the quality of all of our work. While MRS is itself an international organization, it is based primarily in the United States, and it actively supports and encourages the activities of more than a dozen sister societies with a regional or national focus from around the world, many of which also engage a global audience like that of MRS. The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) was founded in 1983, ten years after MRS, as an independent organization based in Europe and serving a mission similar to that of the U.S.-based MRS. Following E-MRS came a number of others, and in 1991, MRS-type societies based in the United States, Europe, China, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan, India, and Australia cooperated to form the International Union of
“International collaboration. strengthens the research enterprise for all of us.”
Materials Research Societies, or IUMRS, with the primary goal of facilitating international collaboration among the member organizations. New MRS-type societies continue to be formed, with MRS-Brazil as the most recent, whose inaugural meeting will be reported in an upcoming issue of the Bulletin. IUMRS bears the same relationship to its member organizations (known as adhering bodies) as the United Nations ideally bears to the governments of its member nations. It is neither a parent body nor the international arm of any individual organization, but it serves as a forum for the sharing of ideas and concerns. MRS is an active member of IUMRS and supports its activities in a wide variety of ways. IUMRS holds its annual business meeting in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Materials
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