Katz Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2004
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Katz Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2004
Howard E. Katz
David J. Eaglesham
On January 1, Howard E. Katz (Lucent Technologies) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2004, after serving as vice president/ president-elect in 2003. He succeeded Merrilea J. Mayo from the National Academies, who now serves MRS as immediate past president. Alan J. Hurd (Los Alamos National Laboratory) continues as secretary. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, David J. Eaglesham (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) was elected vice president/president-elect. During the 2003 MRS Fall Meeting in December, Katz announced the appointments of chairs of the governing committees: Cynthia A. Volkert (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) was appointed as chair of the Operational Oversight Committee; Bruce M. Clemens (Stanford University), Planning Committee; and Jerry Floro (Sandia National Laboratories), External Relations/Volunteer Involvement Committee. The newly elected members to the MRS Board of Directors are Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado; Robert Averback, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign; Marie-Isabelle Baraton, University of Limoges; Eugene A. Fitzgerald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Albert Polman, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF). They will serve three-year terms beginning January 1 and join continuing directors Clemens, Floro, and Volkert; Zhenan Bao, Bell Laboratories, ´ de la Lucent Technologies; Tomás Diaz Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Ulrich M. Goesele, Max Planck Institute; Mihal E. Gross, Office of Naval Research; Yuri Suzuki, University of California, Berkeley; and Jerry Tersoff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
MRS BULLETIN/JANUARY 2004
Alan J. Hurd
Howard E. Katz President Howard E. Katz is a distinguished member of technical staff at Lucent Technologies. He received his PhD degree in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. His scientific interests include electrical phenomena in polymers and solids, synthesis and fabrication, information storage, and sensing. His work on organic semiconductors was recognized with an R&D 100 Award for a demonstration plastic electrophoretic display, and the team he co-founded received the American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation. Katz was recently named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of the Defense Sciences Research Council, holds 29 U.S. patents, and is the author or co-author of more than 140 publications. Within MRS, Katz has been a director and served on the Operational Oversight Committee, the Workshop Subcommittee, and the Audit Committee. He was a symposium organizer at the 1992 MRS Fall Meeting and co-chair of the 1998 MRS Fall Meeting, where he introduced the now ongoing topics of combinatorial materials science, materials science of microelectromechanical systems, and polymer pharmaceuticals. David J. Eaglesham Vice President/President-Elect David J. Eaglesham is chief
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