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pulp and paper industries. His award will be presented at
the NACE 2014 meeting in San Antonio during the
Awards Dinner on March 12. Perdomo holds a B.Sc. in
metallurgy from Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas,
Venezuela, and a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland.
Rosei Receives Two Canadian Awards
The Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) has bestowed
its 2014 Award for Research Excel-
lence in Materials Chemistry on
Prof.
Federico Rosei,
director of the INRS
Énergie Matériaux Télécommunica-
tions research center, in recognition of
his exceptional contributions to the
field. Rosei will be honored at the so-
ciety’s annual conference, June 1-5, in
Vancouver. Additionally, in February,
Rosei received an E.W.R. Steacie Me-
morial Fellowship, one of the most
prestigious honors awarded by the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Re-
search Council of Canada (NSERC). Among his previous
awards, Rosei received the 2013 Brian Ives Lectureship
Award from ASM Canada.
Henein Named 2014 TMS President
TMS instated
Hani Henein
as its new
president during the TMS 2014 Annual
Meeting & Exhibition in San Diego, Feb-
ruary 16-20. A TMS member for 31 years,
Henein previously served as that Society’s
vice president, a member of its Financial
Planning Committee, and Board Director
of Programming. Henein is a professor at
the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. As vice
president of TMS, Henein worked to foster the development
and involvement of young professionals in TMS and hopes
to continue that work in his new role as president. Henein
earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees fromMcGill University and
his doctorate from the University of British Columbia.
NAE Elects Pharr
George M. Pharr, FASM,
Chancellor’s
Professor in the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Joint Faculty
Scientist in the Materials Science and
Technology Division at Oak Ridge Na-
tional Laboratory, was named to the Na-
tional Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Pharr, who is also director of the UT-ORNL Joint Institute
for Advanced Materials and McKamey Professor of Engi-
neering, has been elected for his “development of methods
for determining mechanical properties of materials by
nanoindentation.” He studies nanoscale materials for use in
high strength materials for energy production and storage,
electronics, modern medicine, computer hard drives, and
everyday products.
Suresh is Doubly Honored
Carnegie Mellon University president
Subra Suresh, FASM,
recently received
two honors. Last October, he was elected
as a member of the Institute of Medicine
(IOM), making him the only current uni-
versity president and only one of 16 living
Americans to be elected to all three major
national academies (along with the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of
Engineering). Additionally, in December Suresh was elected
as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI
Fellows are recognized for their “prolific spirit of innovation.”
Induction of the 2013 class will occur on March 7 at the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va.
Metal Powder Group Elects Officers
The Metal Powder In-
dustries Federation (MPIF)
elected two ASM mem-
bers to head up a few of
their trade associations.
Patrick J. McGeehan,
vice president and gen-
eral manager, Specialty
Metal Products, Ametek
Inc., Robesonia, Pa., was elected president of the Metal
Powder Producers Association (MPPA).
David V. Bowles,
general manager and president, Pressure Technology Inc.,
Warminster, Pa., was elected president of the Isostatic
Pressing Association (IPA). Both men were installed during
the federation’s annual meeting last November in Key
West, Fla.
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Members in the News
Members
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TMS Young Leader Professional
Development Award Winners
TMS announced the recipients of its 2014 Young
Leader Professional Development Award in January.
Winners were formally recognized at the 143rd TMS
Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 16-20, at the
San Diego Convention Center. The award recognizes
early-career individuals, under the age of 40, for their
potential as future leaders within TMS and the materi-
als and engineering community it serves.
Congratulations to these ASM joint student mem-
bers who were among those selected for the TMS award:
Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division:
Hans Shin,
Pacific Testing Laboratories
Extraction & Processing Division:
Zhiwei Peng,
Michigan Technological University
Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division:
Srinivasa Rao Bakshi
, India Institute of Technology
Madras;
Amber Genau
, University of Alabama; and
Paul Gibbs
, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Structural Material Division:
Jennifer Carter
, Case
Western Reserve University;
Benjamin Morrow
, Los
Alamos National Laboratory; and
John Nychka
, Uni-
versity of Alberta.
McGeehan Bowles