MRS serves the global materials community
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MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY
OPINION LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT This great organization of ours continues to implement innovative programs and utilize ever-evolving technologies in order to achieve its mission and its strategic objectives, all of which focus on serving the global materials community.
MRS serves the global materials community Bruce M. Clemens 2012 MRS President
It’s hard for me to believe, but my year as President of the Materials Research Society is almost over, and what a year it’s been! This great organization of ours, led by a dedicated Board of Directors and equally dedicated operating committees and Headquarters staff, continues to implement innovative programs and utilize ever-evolving technologies in order to achieve its mission and its strategic objectives, all of which focus on serving the global materials community. For example, as I mentioned in last month’s letter, MRS has established the Materials Research Society Foundation for the purpose of advancing the MRS mission to promote interdisciplinary materials research communication, and to ensure that MRS programs in education, outreach, and peer recognition can continue to grow. The Foundation will also benefit a wide range of innovative grassroots, member-driven initiatives—from student chapter proposals, to local or regional education/outreach projects. (For complete information, please visit www.mrs.org/foundation.) In MRS’s quest to disseminate information and promote the field, we recognize that it’s often wise to engage in mutually beneficial collaborations in order to achieve our high aspirations for communication. One such collaboration with the Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales (SMM) has resulted in a successful and ever-growing joint International Materials Research Congress in Cancún each summer. Our collaborations with SMM have included bringing the Strange Matter museum exhibition to Mexico and were recently expanded with approval of a joint MRS/SMM University Chapter at Cinvestav-IPN in Mexico City. MRS’s partnership with Cambridge University Press continues to produce publications and innovative products. This year, MRS and Cambridge launched Materials360 Online, a website dedicated to materials research news. Materials360 Online publishes original news, videos and podcasts, news stories aggregated from major scientific publications and websites, and links to MRS’s newest and most viewed journal content (www. materials360online.com). Over the past decade, outreach efforts at MRS have expanded tremendously and materials research has been brought into the public spotlight by such undertakings as the Strange Matter traveling science exhibition and public television’s NOVA series on materials, “Making Stuff.” This year, the “Science Enthusiasts” section of the MRS website is being
MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 37 • NOVEMBER 2012
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OPINION LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT expanded to provide information about our many outreach activities and programs, support our members who may want to participate in public ou
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