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Y. Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego, has earned the 2020 Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Faraday Medal is awarded annually by the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry to an electrochemist working outside of the UK and Ireland in recognition of their outstanding original contributions and innovation as a mid-career researcher in any field of electrochemistry.
Eric A. Stach has been named the direc-
tor of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor of materials science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Faculty Chair of the Nanoscale Characterization Facility in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. He is also a co-founder and chief technology officer of Hummingbird Scientific, a nanotechnology firm that develops advanced instrumentation for nanoscale characterization.
Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected as a foreign member of The Royal Society for his “discoveries in complex oxides, from novel fundamental physics, through new materials, to their application in ferroelectric, magnetic, and multiferroic devices.” He is a senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and professor of physics and materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Ramesh pioneered major areas of research, including the materials physics of ferroelectrics. His studies on correlated phenomena in oxides resulted in
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the discovery of colossal magnetoresistance in manganites. S. Suresh Babu will serve a six-year
term on the National Science Board. He is The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing, and director of the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. He is one of the world’s leading experts in developing advanced materials, serves on several multi-university and multi-partner projects, including IACMI—The Composites Institute, and on projects for the US government, including research for the Navy. Babu is active in conducting research at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL with support from the DOE Advanced Manufacturing Office.
Yonggang Huang and Samuel Stupp,
Northwestern University, were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in the United States. Additionally, Stupp was awarded the 2020 Nanoscience Prize from the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering.
Mark Hersam has been selected to receive the 2020 Medard W. Welch Award, the top research award from the American Vacuum Society. Hersam is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and the director of Northwestern University’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. He received the award
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