Thompson Leads Expanded Executive Committee in 1996
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Thompson Leads Expanded Executive Committee in 1996 The Materials Research Society Welcomes Two Council Members to the Executive Committee Carl V. Thompson, professor of electronic materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, automatically assumes the position of the 1996 Materials Research Society president from his elected office of first vice president in 1995. He succeeds Julia M. Phillips from Sandia National Laboratories who now serves MRS as immediate past president. The newly elected members of the Executive Committee are Robert Hull (University of Virginia) as First Vice President (President-Elect), Robert J. Nemanich (North Carolina State University) as Second Vice President (Vice President-Elect), and Kevin Jones (University of Florida) as Secretary for a two-year term. A. Kay Hays (Sandia National Laboratories) enters the second year of her two-year term as Treasurer. In addition, MRS Council has elected two councillors to serve one-year terms on the executive committee: Ronald Gibala (University of Michigan) and Alan I. Taub (Ford Research Laboratory). The Society approved the addition of these representatives to the Executive Committee to share the workload of the Executive Committee and increase council engagement in governance. On a separate ballot, the membership voted to eliminate the position of second vice president, beginning in 1997. This year, before the change takes effect, the second vice president will automatically become vice president in 1997. Until this year, the second vice president was typically elected to the first vice presidential position, thus fulfilling a four-year commitment to the Executive Committee. The
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change shortens the commitment to three years, beginning with the election of a vice president (president-elect) for 1998. The newly elected MRS councillors for 1996 are Cammy R. Abernathy, University of Florida; Harry A. Atwater, California Institute of Technology; Martin L. Green, AT&T Bell Laboratories; Alan J. Hurd, Sandia National Laboratories; Virginia M. Oversby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Lyle H. Schwartz, National Institute of Standards and Technology; and James S. Williams, Australian National University. They join the following current members of council: Howard K. Birnbaum, University of Illinois-Urbana; Charles B. Duke, Xerox Webster Research Center; Ron Gibala, University of Michigan; James M.E. Harper, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Gabrielle G. Long, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Merrilea J. Mayo, Pennsylvania State University; Manfred Riihle, Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung; and Alan I. Taub, Ford Research Laboratory. Carl V. Thompson President
Carl V. Thompson has been a professor of electronic materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1983. His research interests focus on relationships among processing, structure, properties, and performance of thin films
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