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Members in the News
Misra Receives Hind Ratan Award and More
Devesh Misra, FASM, Distinguished
Professor and Director, Center for Struc-
tural and Functional Materials, University
of Louisiana at Lafayette, received the
Hind Rattan Award (translated “Jewel of
India”) of 2014. The NRI Welfare Society
of India award recognizes Misra’s excep-
tional services to the society, achieve-
ments, and contributions to the field, and for the significant
efforts that he has made in building relations between India
and North America, The award was given in New Delhi on
January 26, the Republic Day of India. More recently, Dr. De-
vesh Misra was awarded Distinguished Alumnus Award
from his alma mater, Department of Metallurgical Engineer-
ing, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu Univer-
sity, on November 14, 2013.
Scully Honored with Sword
In September 2013, Prof. John
R. Scully, FASM, was presented
with the Institute of Corrosion’s
(ICorr) U.R. Evans Award. He is
the Charles Henderson Chaired
Professor of Materials Science and
Engineering and Co-Director of
the Center for Electrochemical
Science and Engineering at the
University of Virginia. In addition
to being granted an Honorary Life
Fellowship in the Institute, Scully
was presented with an engraved
sword. The lifetime achievement
award recognizes outstanding in-
ternational achievements in pure or applied corrosion sci-
ence. The presentation was part of a joint meeting with the
Royal Society of Chemistry’s Electrochem2013 and ICorr
at the University of Southampton. His acceptance included
a keynote lecture, “Some Advances and Challenges in Un-
derstanding the Influence of Microstructural Heterogene-
ity on Corrosion.”
Schadler Appointed JMR Associate Editor
On March 12, Journal of Materials Re-
search (JMR) editor-in-chief Gary Messing
announced the appointment of Prof.
Linda S. Schadler, FASM, as associate ed-
itor for polymers and organic materials.
The journal is published by the Materials
Research Society. Schadler is the Russell
Sage Professor in Materials Science and
Engineering and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in
the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti-
tute. She is an experimentalist and her research has focused
on the behavior of two-phase systems, primarily polymer
composites. Schadler was named as one of the Top 100 Ma-
terials Scientists worldwide in the last decade by Times
Higher Education, 2011. She is a current member of ASM
International’s Board of Trustees.
AIST Honors Asfahani
Riad I. Asfahani, FASM, was selected
as the recipient of the Association of Iron
& Steel Technology’s (AIST) 2014
Richard J. Fruehan Award for his paper
entitled “Control of Ca-Containing Inclu-
sions in Al-killed Steel Grades.” Estab-
lished in 2005 to honor Dr. Richard J.
Fruehan, a devoted teacher and outstand-
ing scientist dedicated to the steel industry, the award is
given to the author of a process metallurgy technical paper
judged to be the best of class by the AIST Metallurgy Tech-
nology Division. The award will be presented during the
AIST Metallurgy, Processing, Products & Applications
Technology Committee meeting, colocated with MS&T14
in Pittsburgh on October 14.
Distinguished Alumnus
and HTCMC Awards for Singh
Dr. Mrityunjay Singh, FASM, chief
scientist, Ohio Aerospace Institute, Cleve-
land, was awarded the Distinguished
Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of
Technology-BHU, Varanasi, in India. He
previously received Distinguished Alum-
nus Award from the Metallurgy Depart-
ment of IIT-BHU in 2004. In addition, he
also received the HTCMC International Achievement Award
for his contributions in the field of high temperature ceramic
matrix composites. Singh was recognized for his pioneering
and seminal contributions and global leadership in the field
of science, engineering, and applications of advanced ce-
ramic and composite materials and technologies.
Easier Access to Journal Content
for Member Subscribers
With the new ASM website, accessing your ASM journal subscriptions
is easier than ever. Now you need fewer clicks to retrieve your content.
Follow the new instructions below.
Instructions for ASM members to access journal content:
1. Login to the ASM website at .
2. Click on the “My Subscriptions” tab in the left navigation pane.
3. Select the name of the journal (in blue) you wish to access. This will
take you to the journals page on Springer. If you have subscriptions to
other ASM content in addition to journals, such as the member magazine,
Advanced Materials & Processes, and the ASM Desk Editions Online, you
will see those listed on this page as well.
4. If you are already logged into the ASM site and on another page, you
can access the subscription page by clicking on “Welcome” and your
name at the top of the screen, or by clicking on “My ASM.”
Journal Troubleshooting
If you have recently visited the Springer website other than through
the ASM site, it may remember you as a nonsubscriber and indicate that
access is not available or ask you to login or pay for access. If that hap-
pens, you may need to clear out the cookies and temporary history files
on your computer and close your Internet connection. When you go back
in through the ASM site, it should recognize you as a subscriber.
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