Science Lights Up 1991 MRS Spring Meeting
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Président James B. Roberto (left) congratulâtes Stuart S. P. Parkin, IBM Almaden Research Center, as thefirst récipient of the new MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Aivard. The award acknowledges Parkin "for exeeptional initiative, leadership and accomplishment in materials research, with pioneering contributions to thefields of metallic superlattices, organic superconductors and high-temperature superconductors."
Authors and reviewers check papers in the manuscript room at the 1991 MRS Spring Meeting. Présentations that will be published as part of the MRS Symposium Proceedings séries are peerreviewed at the meeting.
The 1991 MRS Spring Meeting in Anaheim beamed with innovative science as well as California sunshine when 1,800 participants convened from April 29 through May 3 for 23 technical sessions, short courses, and an extensive equipment exhibit. The meeting, chaired by A.K. Hays, Sandia National Laboratories, Ernesto E. Marinero, IBM Almaden Research Center, and Cari V. Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shed light on a number of new topics and expanded on familiar ones. • Late News. Light emerging from electrochemically etched porous silicon brought excitement in the late-news session, Visible Light from Porous Si: An Open Door to SiBcon-Based Optoelectronics? As the 400 some attendees filed in, many carried their own chairs to grab a spot in the rapidly filling room. (See sidebar in this report.) • Plenary Address on the Environment. Plenary speaker Stephen A. Lingle, dep-
uty director of the Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology Démonstration, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, focused on the trend toward developing "environmentally friendly" materials. The EPA's new approach emphasizes pollution prévention in addition to the usual end-of-pipe treatment. It also focuses on setting priorities using risk assessment, voluntary compliance and économie incentives, and more reliance on science. (Lingle's address is published elsewhere in this issue.) • Education. Education was addressed in two spécial sessions: a lunchtime panel discussion on graduate materials science éducation and an informai networking session on K-12 science éducation. The graduate éducation panel reached no définitive conclusions as to where materials science éducation should go, but they did discuss the growing rôle of sdentists and engineers with master's degrees and
The 1991 MRS Spring Meeting Chairs holà plaques acknowledging their efforts in putting togetheran interdisciplinary program spanning the breadth ofeurrent materials research. heft to right: Cari V. Thompson, Churchill Collège, Cambridge; Ernesto E. Marinero, IBM Almaden Research Center; and A.K. Hays, Sandia National Laboratories.
the need to decrease the pressure on PhD graduâtes to pursue solely research positions, thereby opening the door for talented people to contribute, for example, to manufacturing needs. The networking session on K-12 sdence
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