Third Student Chapter Recognized on Heels of Fall Meeting
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Second Meeting in Preparation The next meeting of the Northern California Section is now in the planning stages, and the organizers invite suggestions for future topics and formats to enable the Section to continue to serve the needs of the local technical community. Interested persons may direct queries and comments to organizers Nathan Cheung of the University of California at Berkeley, Michael Current of Xerox PARC, Devendra Sadana of Signetics Corp., or Michael Strathman of Charles Evans & Associates. The four organizers bring to the Section a wealth of ideas from their individual experiences in organizing technical programs. Sadana, in particular, was one of the founders of the first MRS Local Section in North Carolina prior to his move to California. The Northern California Local Section was officially chartered during a Monday evening ceremony preceeding the Plenary Session of the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. See article on page 21.
Why a Local Section Many technical societies have found that local section activities are excellent means for researchers in a particular geographic area to meet and exchange information on a frequent basis while taking less time away from their other duties. In this respect the meetings are useful supplements to the larger, less frequent annual meetings. MRS Local Sections are expected to treat topics of interest to their members in an interdisciplinary fashion similar to that found in symposia at national meetings. Information on how to form an MRS Local Section can be obtained from the MRS Membership Committee (chaired in 1985 by Rod Ewing of the University of New Mexico). Northern California Section organizers (left to right) Michael Current, Nathan Cheung, Michael Strathman, and Devendra Sadana discuss future activities of the new MRS Section.
Third Student Chapter Recognized on Heels of Fall Meeting Immediately following the Boston Meeting, Case Western Reserve University welcomed MRS President-Elect Elton Kaufmann, who officially inaugurated the university's MRS Student Chapter. The Chapter, the third such chapter for the Society, was also recognized at the Fall Meeting, but the December 3 ceremony at Case Western in Cleveland enabled student members, officers, and university officials unable to attend the meeting in Boston to participate in the historic event. Kaufmann conducted a technical seminar on his current research and then presented the new Student Chapter's charter to Chapter President Toni Grobstein who studies metallurgy in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science. Among the 30 or more attendees at the Case Western ceremony were Chapter Vice President Michael Biddle (Department of Macromolecular Science), Secretary/Treasurer Kevin Kedder (Chemistry Department), Prof. Donald Schuely (dean of the Case Institute of Technology), and Prof. Terry E. Mitchell (Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science and the Chapter's faculty advisor). This Chapter, as well as other MRS chapters and sections, Kaufmann noted, are unique in that the same interdisciplina
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