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HIGHL IGHTS A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | M A Y / J U N E 2 0 1 8 5 5 MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Transition.” Shi joined the Rensselaer faculty in 2014 after completing postdoctoral work at Harvard University. ACerS Recognizes Rosei and Seal Federico Rosei, FASM, and Sudipta Seal, FASM, were named Aca- demicians in the Science class of the World Academy of Ceramics (WCA) by ACerS. The WCA honors individuals who have made significant contribu- tions to the advancement of ceramics, culture, science, and technology. Rosei is professor and UNESCO chair at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) in Varennes, Canada. Seal is professor and chair of the department of materials science and engineering at the University of Central Florida. He is also an ASM trustee. Vander Voort Teaches Metallography at Arconic George Vander Voort, FASM, consultant with Struers Inc., taught a metallography course for staff of the Arconic Power and Propulsion Research Center in Whitehall, Mich., in April. The course, presented twice to accommodate night and day crews, covered metallographic specimen prepa- ration, nickel-base and titanium-base alloys, grain size measurement, and comparison of measurement meth- ods, etching for image analysis, inclusion measurement by ASTM E45 and E1245, measurement of decarburization, and fractography. Ramanath Named MRS Fellow Nanomaterials expert Ganpati Ramanath, the John Tod Horton ‘52 Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was named a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) “for developing creative approaches to realize new nanomaterials via chemi- cally directed nanostructure synthesis and assembly and for tailoring inter- faces in electronics and energy applications using molec- ular nanolayers.” The new MRS fellows were recognized at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix. Ramanath is a director and cofounder of ThermoAura Inc., a nanomateri- als and clean-energy startup company that is commercial- izing novel thermoelectric nanomaterials developed in his laboratory. Kalidindi and Schuh Awarded JMR Paper of the Year Arvind Kalidindi and Christo- pher A. Schuh, FASM, from the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, received the 2017 Journal of Materi- als Research (JMR) Paper of the Year award for their paper “Phase Transi- tions in Stable Nanocrystalline Alloys” (published June 14, 2017— JMR Vol 32, issue 11). The authors developed a Monte Carlo-based simulation that determines the mini- mum free energy state of an alloy with a strong tendency for grain boundary segregation that con- siders both different grain sizes and a large solute configuration space. Using this method, Kalidindi and Schuh are able to determine how grain size changes as a function of temperature and produce equilibrium phase dia- grams for nanocrystalline alloys. Their paper is freely available in perpetuity. Rosei Seal George Vander Voort (front row, third from left) and his students at Arconic. Ramanath Kalidindi Schuh