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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 | J U L Y / A U G U S T 2 0 1 9 6 5 Morris MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Akron Member and Student Appreciation Night MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Morris Appointed CRO of Ames Lab Dr. JamesMorris has beennamed chief research officer (CRO) at the DOE’s Ames Laboratory. His appoint- ment became effective on June 17. The CRO is responsible for initiating, devel- oping, and supervising the lab’s scien- tific divisions, institutes, and programs. Prior to the Ames appointment, Mor- ris served as the Multiscale Materials Theory Group Leader in the Materials Science & Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Lab- oratory and associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Tennessee. His work has focused on a variety of materials science challenges, includ- ing alloy design, metallic liquids and glasses, and properties of confined fluids in porous media. Members from the Akron University Materials Advantage Chapter recently presented three Western Reserve District 5 Science Day (WRD5SD) Awards to three deserving students during the Member and Student Appreciation Night. Pictured from left: Benjamin Blazek, Materials Advantage chair; Rogelio De Las Casa, MA member; Dr. Jennifer Lillard, University of Akron corrosion professor andmeeting speaker; Joseph El Rassi, MA member; AdamKhan and Charles Pafford, both ASM Akron Chapter WRD5SD Award Recipients, along with Vikram Sundaram (not pictured). Kent Awarded NSF Grant Michelle Kent, a materials sci- ence major at Lehigh University, was awarded a National Science Founda- tion’s Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). Kent is in the 2019 Class of the P.C. Rosin College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The NSF GRF recognizes students in STEM fields who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees. Fellows receive a three-year stipend of $34,000 plus a three-year $12,000 cost-of-education allowance paid to their respective institutions. Kent, a Mate- rial Advantage member, is starting a Ph.D. program in met- allurgy at Colorado School of Mines this fall. Bose Named to Royal Society of Chemistry Susmita Bose, FASM, the Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washing- ton State University, has been named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chem- istry (RSC). The society is the oldest chemical society in the world and includes more than 54,000 members. The fellow designation indicates an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the chemi- cal sciences and a high level of accomplishment as a profes- sional chemist. Bose is known internationally for her work in using 3D printing technology to create bone-like materi- als and coatings for implants. She has published more than 240 technical papers and her work has been cited nearly 15,000 times. Bose is also a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Kent Bose