HIGHLIGHTS ADVANCED MATERIALS & PROCESSES | JANUARY 2026 43 CHAPTERS IN THE NEWS Los Alamos Dedicates Historical Landmark In early November 2025, ASM President Elizabeth Hoffman, FASM, joined the Los Alamos Chapter to celebrate the dedication of the Pajarito Site as an ASM International Historical Landmark. The site reflects both Ancestral Pueblo history and early plutonium research, including landmarks such as the Slotin Building, Battleship Bunker, and Pond Cabin—once used as an office, library, and research quarters by Emilio Segrè and his team. Washington DC Tours Museum of Industry Members and friends of the Washington DC Chapter visited one of the region’s coolest museums: the Baltimore Museum of Industry, on October 4, 2025. The city is home to the nation’s first passenger railway, oldest gas company, first traffic light, first telegraph message received, and many other industrial firsts, all requiring materials science innovations. The group saw historic oyster canning, blacksmithing, uniform tailoring, and typesetting. One of the most interesting exhibits was an operational Linotype machine, invented in Baltimore in the 1880s. The museum also docu- ments the diverse and influential workers and entrepreneurs who built the city into a manufacturing powerhouse. CHAPTERS IN THE NEWS Presentation of the ASM Historical Landmark plaque for the Pajarito Site in the historic Slotin Building at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). From left: Ellen Cerreta, FASM (associate laboratory director, physical sciences, LANL); Liz Hoffman, FASM (ASM International president); Jonathon Creel (Manhattan Project National Historic Park program manager); and Gary Gladysz (MST-7 group leader, LANL, and Los Alamos Chapter Chair). Los Alamos Chapter members and Manhattan Project National Historic Park staff at the Pajarito Site in front of the historic Battleship Bunker. Evidence of Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings is visible in the background. Tour attendees near the museum’s industrial sculptures on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
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