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Hurd Leads MRS Board of Directors in 2007
Alan J. Hurd On January 1, Alan J. Hurd (Los Alamos National Laboratory) assumed the presidency of the Materials Research Society for 2007, after serving as vice president/president-elect in 2006. He succeeded Peter F. Green (University of Michigan), who now serves MRS as immediate past president. In last fall’s annual election of officers and directors, Cynthia A. Volkert (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) was elected vice president/president-elect. The newly elected members to the MRS board of directors are J. Charles Barbour, Sandia National Laboratories; Susan P. Ermer, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center; Cherie Kagan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; James C. Sturm, Princeton University; and Timothy P. Weihs, the Johns Hopkins University. They will serve three-year terms and join continuing directors Joanna Aizenberg, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories; Shefford P. Baker, Cornell University; Horst W. Hahn, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; Thomas P. Russell, University of Massachusetts–Amherst; Darrell G. Schlom, Pennsylvania State University; Bethanie J.H. Stadler, University of Minnesota; Richard A. Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory; Kazumi Wada, University of Tokyo; and Ellen D. Williams, University of Maryland. Alan J. Hurd President Alan J. Hurd is director of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has also been deputy director of the Institute of Complex Adaptive Materials since 2004. Hurd was also the interim associate director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in 2004. Prior to joining Los Alamos in 2001, he managed materials research areas at Sandia National Labora70
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tories. He did a postdoc and taught at Brandeis University before joining Sandia in 1984. Hurd’s research interests include neutron scattering, complex fluids, and sol-gel ceramics, for which he has three awards from Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, for outstanding research. He has served on advisory boards for the DOE, Basic Energy Sciences; the National Nuclear Security Agency; the National Research Council; the National Science Foundation; and various universities. For MRS, Hurd has served as vice president/president-elect, treasurer, secretary, councilor, board member, Membership Committee chair, Public Outreach Subcommittee chair, chair of four task forces, and co-chair of the 1994 MRS Spring Meeting. He received the 1999 MRS Woody Award and the 2004 MRS Special Recognition Award for his activities involving Materials MicroWorld, now known as Strange Matter, a science exhibition that promotes public awareness and appreciation of materials science. Cynthia A. Volkert Vice President/President-Elect Cynthia A. Volkert is a group leader at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe in Germany, where she performs studies in microstructure and mechanical properties of small metal structures. She received her PhD degree from Harvard University in 1988. She spent 10 years as a staff member at Bell Laborato
