MRS Featured Volunteer

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Featured Volunteer Daryush Ha (left) Membership Committee

What is your favorite element? Oxygen and then Rubidium. What do you read first in MRS Bulletin? Its cover page. Then Research/ Researchers. What was the last book you read? Physics of Star Trek. The most recent one was about the materials used for sporting goods. What inspired you to be a materials researcher? Its community. It is the most diverse materials community. It has various people from all various disciplines which should make it more dynamic and progressive! to give up when you are building something useful!!?

What did you first do as an MRS volunteer? Faculty advisor of the University Chapter and then served as President of the Alabama Section.

If you were not a materials researcher, what would you be? A physicist.

What is your Motto? Use your various senses and don't let them get blocked by ignorance. Try not

What common household item do you use in your lab? Common sense and a lot of soap!!

Daryush Ila is director of the Research Institute as well as founding director of the Irradiation Center at Alabama A&M University (AAMU), where he is a professor. He currently chairs the Survey Subcommittee of the Materials Research Society Membership Committee, lla's contributions as an MRS volunteer also include forming both the AAMU Chapter and Alabama Section of MRS, serving as the first president of the latter; chairing the Membership Committee and various subcommittees; and organizing several MRS Meeting symposia. He is seen here with Kelly Kaufold, volunteer for the Equipment Exhibit at MRS Meetings.

To contribute to MRS Featured Volunteer, send in your responses to the questions to MRS Bulletin, 506 Keystone Drive, Warrendale, PA 15086-7573, USA; fax 724779-8313; e-mail [email protected]. Include your name, volunteer activity, address, fax, and e-mail.

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