Standing Together While We Stay Apart: Your 2021 TMS Membership
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-020-04352-9 Ó 2020 The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Standing Together While We Stay Apart: Your 2021 TMS Membership Tom Battle In the past year, our global professional community—and indeed the entire world— has been grappling with hard questions. Perhaps central among these, at least professionally speaking, is this: How do we keep science and technology advances moving forward when we’re so far apart? Connecting with colleagues Tom Battle is an essential aspect of our careers as scientists and engineers. We gather with WHDPVRIFRZRUNHUVWRVROYHGL൶FXOWSUREOHPV:HZRUN side-by-side in laboratories to test new ideas. We meet at conferences and events to share insights and gather inspiration for our own work. Our careers and our individual projects thrive on this kind of interaction. So how do we keep our momentum going in time of pandemic? While there are no easy answers to these questions, there is one important thing that all of us can do. We can VWDQGWRJHWKHU ¿JXUDWLYHO\VSHDNLQJ DVDFRPPXQLW\ Our TMS community has always been a place that brings together scientists with engineers, industry employees with government lab workers, academic professionals, and students. We have long been the Society that connects individuals working throughout the world to move the minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering ¿HOGVIRUZDUG$QGZHFRQWLQXHWRGRVRWRGD\ One of the easiest ways to show solidarity and to stay connected with your community is to renew your membership in The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for the coming year. It doesn’t sound like much, but when you renew your membership, your dues help to cover costs associated with the services provided to TMS members, as well as the services we are able to provide to the larger community. When you renew for 2021, you also help to grow our Society’s network of professionals and students, making it easier for individuals to share new ideas, inspire new research directions, and forge new professional relationships. When you renew for 2021, you help to enable all of these connections and interactions to continue KDSSHQLQJDQG\RXKHOSNHHSWKH¿HOGPRYLQJIRUZDUGIRU both yourself and your colleagues. For our part, we are working to do all we can to provide additional support to the TMS community during this
challenging time. A few examples: • We have launched a new series of webinars, led by TMS volunteers with a wealth of expertise and experience, on topics of current interest. Log in to www.tms.org/WebinarLibrary to view past webinars for free and to register for upcoming events. • We’ve introduced a new Economic Hardship member category for any member who may be dealing with a temporary setback in their career, such as job loss, employer funding cuts, or reduced working hours. You can contact Bryn Simpson, TMS Membership and Volunteerism Program Manager, at [email protected] to request this free membership until you are back on your feet. • We launched a COVID-19 Resource Portal (www WPVRUJ&2
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