MRS Committees Focus on Planning, Outreach to Materials Community
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MRS Committees Focus on Planning, Outreach to Materials Community Chairs of the standing committees of the Materials Research Sodety hâve defined their goals for 1991, emphasizing the common thèmes of planning and outreach to the materials community. The thème of planning involves not only fiscal awareness but efforts to chart an effective longterm course that will act, says John Baglin, chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee, "not as a constraint, but as a catalyst to future achievement." The thème of outreach spans many areas
both national and international as well as new dimensions of information and service—endeavors with other sodeties, involvement with materials science issues, information flow to and from fédéral agences, new levels of activity with industry, academia and government. As Membership Committee chair Michael Kelley says, "We are continuously expanding our endeavors to invite and retain in MRS membership ail those who can benefit from it, an ever-widening cirde as our vision of
MRS grows." In the coming year, MRS members can also expect efforts to maintain and refine the vitality of MRS meetings, foster MRS Sections, ensure timely and relevant publications, and recognize excellence and achievement in materials science. For more information about the spécifie activities of the MRS standing committees, contact the committee chairs identified below.
Académie Affaire Committee
each year. Anne Wagner, the AAC liaison at MRS headquarters, manages the printing and mailing of the Committee's newsletter. The Committee has teamed with the Continuing Education and the Public Relations Committees in starting a dialogue on grassroots materials éducation at levels K12. It is dear that students' first impressions of science and engineering hâve a large impact on their career choices. Finally, we are formulating a proposai to introduce a new MRS award to recognize excellence and innovation in teaching materials sdence. We are working on the requirements and guidelines for this award.
developing leader in the materials area. The first award will be presented at the 1991 MRS Spring Meeting. Nominations for this award were due by December 1990, and we received a large number of well-qualified nominations, so the winner is assured to be of very high caliber. The dedsion-making process is in the hands of a spécial subcommittee chaired by Wayne Goodman. We will, of course, solidt nominations later this year for the second award, to be presented at the 1992 MRS Spring Meeting. The MRS Medal program was successfully inaugurated last year with the présentation of the first two awards to Arthur Freeman and Duward Shriver, at the 1990 MRS Fall Meeting. We are now soliciting nominations for this year's awards, and the nomination procédures are published elsewhere in this issue. Nominations from last year remain active for three years. Potential nominators are reminded that the Medal is given for a spécifie and dear materials innovation, rather than for Iifetime achievement. We commend John Baglin for his work in ru
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