MRS Seeks Nominees for Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 1999
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MRS Seeks Nominees for Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 1999 The Materials Research Society is accepting nominations for the Outstanding Young Investigator Award to be announced at the 1999 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The award is intended to recognize outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research by a young scientist or engineer.
The award recipient must also show exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area. The award consists of a $3,000 cash prize, a presentation trophy bearing a brief citation, and a certificate. Reasonable travel expenses to attend the Spring Meeting at which the award is presented
and the meeting registration fees will be reimbursed. The deadline for submission of nominations is October 1,1998. For guidelines
and application forms, contact John B. Ballance, Executive Director, Materials Research Society, 506 Keystone Drive, Warrendale, PA 15086.
EDUCATION EXCHANGE
National Educators' Workshop Updates Materials Educators on Technology In order for education to keep pace with emerging science and technology, close coordination is needed among such sectors as private industry, government laboratories, and the many levels of education. Some educators have devoted a large part of their careers seeking coordination of these sectors in order to improve both materials and basic education. The National Educators' Workshop: Update series (NEW: Update) is an on-going project to improve materials education while also offering assistance to pre-college math, science, and technology education. The various levels of support offered by technical societies1 including Materials Research Society (MRS), ASM International, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) bring together like-minded people to tackle the daunting challenges of changing curricula while working to infuse new ideas as well as providing supportive instructional strategies and teaching materials. The activities of NEW: Update, started in 1985, focus on technical updates and laboratory experiments for materials science, engineering, and technology involving new and traditional content in the field. Participants observe demonstrations of experiments; discuss issues of materials science and engineering (MSE) with people from education, industry, government laboratories, and technical societies; and hear about new MSE developments. Half-day mini-workshops for small groups are conducted at the host laboratories. In 1996, for example, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), as host, presented mini-plenary sessions that focused on technology at LANL, including a special emphasis on hydrogen as a mini-theme of the Workshop. At the Workshop, faculty, scientists, engineers, and a few students from high
school through graduate school present materials experiments that they have developed. Before the Workshop begins, the experiments are reviewed by an international panel through the cooperation of the
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