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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 R C H 2 0 2 2 5 4 IN MEMORIAM Peter R. Witting, of Buffalo, N.Y., passed away on November 13, 2021, at age 55. He was a member of the board of the ASM Buffalo Chapter. He also was a member of ASM’s Heat Treating Society (HTS) andwas active on the HTS Research &Development Committee since 2016. Witting had a Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo and worked as a mechanical engineer for Harper International. Kamaraj Witting MEMBERS IN THE NEWS Kamaraj Elected INAE Fellow Prof. Muthuswamy Kamaraj, FASM, was named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineer- ing (INAE). He is currently a professor in the department of metallurgical and materials engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chen- nai, India. He has made outstanding research contributions in tribological behavior of coatings and dissimilar welded joints of advanced materials for automobile, aero- space, and power plant applications. Kamaraj has 254 publi- cations, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters. His research has been cited over 4200 times and he was named among the top 2% of scientists from India in materials (2020). Kamaraj now serves as chair of the ASM Chennai Chapter and was appointed to the 2021 ASM Nominating Committee. Prucha Wins AFS Gold Medal Thomas Prucha is the 2022 win- ner of the William McFadden Gold Medal from the American Foundry Society (AFS). He will receive the soci- ety’s highest honor at the annual ban- quet at CastExpo 2022, April 23-26, in Columbus, Ohio. The award honors Prucha’s “outstanding achievements, service, and contributions to the metalcasting industry and his visionary leadership steering the industry toward new technological horizons on the global level.” Prucha is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Metalcasting and president of Metal Morphasis LLC. In 2021, he was a Hoyt Memorial Lecturer at the virtual Metalcasting Congress. Prucha is a member of the ASM Detroit Chapter. Prucha