Mayo Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2003
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Mayo Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2003
Merrilea J. Mayo
Howard E. Katz
Merrilea J. Mayo (The National Academies) automatically assumes the presidency of the Materials Research Society (MRS) for 2003, after serving as vice president/president-elect in 2002. She succeeds Alex King from Purdue University, who now serves MRS as immediate past president. Howard E. Katz (Lucent Technologies) has been elected vice president/president-elect. Alan J. Hurd (Los Alamos National Laboratories) continues as secretary. During the 2002 MRS Fall Meeting in December, director Linda Horton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) was appointed as Treasurer by the Board of Directors and she was appointed as chair of the Operational Oversight Committee by Mayo. Mayo also announced the appointments of chairs of the other governing committees: Paul S. Peercy (University of Wisconsin), Planning Committee and Mihal E. Gross (RAND/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow), External Relations/Volunteer Involvement Committee. The newly elected members to the MRS Board of Directors are Zhenan Bao, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; Ulrich M. Goesele, Max Planck Institute; Yuri Suzuki, University of California— Berkeley; and Jerry Tersoff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. They will serve three-year terms beginning January 1, 2003, and join the following current members of the board: Eduard Arzt, Max Planck Institute; Bruce M. Clemens, Stanford University; Tomás Diáz de la Rubia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Jerry Floro, Sandia National Laboratories; Peter F. Green, University of Texas—Austin; Akihisa Inoue, Institute for Materials Research; Cynthia A. Volkert, Max Planck Institute; Julia R. Weertman, Northwestern University; and Gross, Horton, and Peercy.
MRS BULLETIN/JANUARY 2003
Alan J. Hurd
Merrilea J. Mayo President Merrilea J. Mayo is the director of the Government–University–Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), of the National Academies and guided by the National Research Council (NRC). She moved to the National Academies from The Pennsylvania State University, where she was an associate professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, focusing on nanocrystalline ceramics. She received her PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University in 1988. Mayo received fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1993) and the Exxon Foundation (1982–1984), as well as an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991–1996). She served on the NRC’s Advisory Panel on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and on the NRC’s Advisory Committee on Army After Next (AAN) Logistics. She was the founding director of the Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America (ASTRA). Mayo has over 70 authored and co-authored publications. Within MRS, Mayo completed her service as vice president/president-elect to step into the position of president. Before that, she served as treasurer. Mayo also served on the External Affairs and Public Affairs Committees
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