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Singhal Elected President
of Washington State Academy
Subhash C. Singhal, FASM,
Battelle
Fellow Emeritus at the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory, was recently named
President of the Washington State Acad-
emy of Sciences. He became a founding
member of the academy in 2008. He is also
a member of the National Academy of En-
gineering. The Washington State Academy
of Sciences is patterned after the National Academies, and
provides expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform
public policy-making, and works to increase the role and vis-
ibility of science in the State of Washington.
Asphahani Receives NACE Founders Award
Dr. Aziz Asphahani, FASM,
was se-
lected as the recipient of the 2014 NACE
Founders Award for his influence on cor-
rosion science and education, as well as his
longstanding commitment to the mission
and goals of the NACE Foundation. He
was one of the inaugural members of its
Board of Directors, helping to shape its di-
rection. As chairman of the ASM Educational Foundation in
2004, he championed the partnership between the ASMMa-
terials Camps for Teachers and the NACE Foundation and
paved the way for the success of the cKit program. He also
played a key role in the curriculum development of the cor-
rosion engineering program at the University of Akron, in-
volving the NACE Foundation. Asphahani is president and
CEO of QuesTek Innovations LLC., Evanston, Ill. The award
was presented on March 12 at the NACE 2014 meeting in
San Antonio.
Suárez’s Phase II Proposal Funded
The National Science Foundation (NSF) an-
nounced that it is funding the second phase of a
new Nanotechnology Center for Biomedical, Envi-
ronmental and Sustainability Applications hosted
by the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(UPRM).
Prof. O. Marcelo Suárez
of UPRM ex-
plains that a strong point of their proposal was the
impact on local public schools, many serving low-
income households. More than 340 students from these
schools are affiliated with the Center through their Materials
Science & Engineering clubs. The Phase II funding provides
$5 million for five years. The NSF program CREST (Centers
for Research Excellence for Science & Technology) in 2008
granted the initial funding to establish the Nanotech Center.
Diversity Summit
The First TMS Diversity Summit on Creating and Sustain-
ing Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Profes-
sions will be held July 29-31 inWashington. Beyond keynotes
from industry leaders, the summit will include interactive
working sessions focusing on practical applications for sow-
ing seeds of diversity and leadership and harvesting improve-
ment in oneself and one’s organization. Among the
organizers are these ASM leaders:
Elizabeth Holm, FASM
(Carnegie Mellon University),
Diran Apelian, FASM,
(Worcester Polytechnic Institute),
Julie Christodoulou,
FASM,
(Office of Naval Research),
Tresa Pollock, FASM
(University of California, Santa Barbara), and ASM trustee
Linda Schadler, FASM
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
Christodoulou and Schadler will also be Summit speakers,
as will ASM’s first female president (2008),
Dianne Chong,
FASM
(Boeing).
TMS Materials Bowl
For the eighth year in a
row, a popular game-show-
styled knowledge contest
pitted students from 12
universities against each
other to determine the
championship contenders.
Students answered individ-
ual and team questions
based on diverse areas of
materials science and engi-
neering.
The University of Florida
team –
Steven Chiu, Hunter Henderson, Glenn Bean,
and
Peter Feldtmann
– took home the championship trophy,
$250 for each teammember, and $500 for their school’s Ma-
terial Advantage chapter.
Runner-up was the team fromUniversity of Illinois Cham-
paign-Urbana, who received $500 for its Material Advantage
chapter. Team members include
Meher Bharucha, Kaitlin
Tyler, Liv Dedon,
and
Maxwell Li.
Preciado Awarded Fellowship
Edwin Sabas Preciado
was among 18 graduate students
at the University of California, Riverside, to receive a Grad-
uate Research Fellowship (GRF) from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) this year. The NSF GRF Program provides
three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship
period. Preciado, a second-year materials science and engi-
neering Ph.D. student, works with Ludwig Bartels, a profes-
sor of chemistry. He is developing single layer transition
metal dichalcogenide films—a semiconductor material said
to have ultimate thinness as well as improved optical prop-
erties over silicon—that will be used in the next generation
of microchips.
Material Advantage Grad Honored
as Young Scientist
David Kisailus,
the Win-
ston Chung Endowed Chair of
Energy Innovation at the Uni-
versity of California, River-
side’s Bourns College
of
Engineering, has been named
a Kavli Fellow. The Kavli Foun-
dation selects young scientists
as Fellows to support scientific
research, honor scientific achievement, and promote public
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