Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, was recently elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
He was selected for his distinguished contributions to engineering based on “aerospace applications of polymeric nanomaterials and for technical leadership in materials for national defense applications.”
Vaia has pioneered discoveries in polymer nanocomposites that are used in stronger, lighter, and more functional components in commercial and military sectors.
Chennupati Jagadish, Distinguished Professor at The Australian National University, Australia, was recently elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
He was selected for contributions to nanotechnology for optoelectronic devices.
Jagadish’s research focuses on compound semiconductor optoelectronics, nanotechnology, photovoltaics, neuroscience, and neurotechnology.
Kristi Anseth, Distinguished Professor, Tisone Professor, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award for her outstanding contributions in converging engineering and biology to develop innovative biomaterials that help tissue regeneration and drug delivery.
There are five recipients of this award, and they are recognized alongside 15 Rising Talents, young women scientists from all over the world. UNESCO and L’Oréal Foundation actively support women in science in order to increase their visibility, raise awareness of their talent, and inspire more of them to work in science.
Chad Mirkin, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2020 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The award is presented to a scientist or public servant who has contributed significantly to the advancement of science in the United States.
A professor of chemistry, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering, and medicine, Mirkin is being honored for multiple contributions to the fields of chemistry and nanoscience.
Anirudha Sumant was promoted to Group Leader of Nanofabrication and Devices at Argonne National Laboratory. His current research interests include superlubricity, nucleation, and growth mechanisms of chemical vapor deposition diamond, graphene, and carbon nanotubes, microscale and nanoscale tribology, and electronic and mechanical properties of carbon-based materials.
Tina Nenoff, a senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was awarded this honor for the “advancement of science in service to society” for her research and leadership in the field of nanoporous materials, particularly in ion and gas separations for energy and environmental applications.
Congratulations to the following MRS members for their recent election as Fellows:
2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
Chemistry
Stephen E. Bradforth
University of Southern California
Paula Diaconescu
University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Todd D. Krauss
University of Rochester
Benjamin L. Miller
University of Rochester
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
University of California, Santa Barbara
George C. Shields
Furman University
Mark Urban
Clemson University
Engineering
Andrea Alù
The City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center
David Cahill
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Duke University
Matthew DeLisa
Cornell University
Dan Fleetwood
Vanderbilt University
David H. Gracias
Johns Hopkins University
Piotr Grodzinski
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health
Radenka Maric
University of Connecticut/UConn Health
Gopal R. Rao
Materials Research Society
Sharon L. Walker
Drexel University
Industrial Science and Technology
Ray H. Baughman
The University of Texas at Dallas
William D. Provine
Delaware Innovation Space/DuPont
Ellen D. Williams
University of Maryland
Physics
Reiner Kruecken
TRIUMF/The University of British Columbia
Kai Liu
Georgetown University/University of California, Davis
Vincent Meunier
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ivan I. Oleynik
University of South Florida
Mark George Raizen
The University of Texas at Austin
James Siegrist
US Department of Energy
Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
William S. Kisaalita
University of Georgia
William R. Moomaw
Tufts University
2019 American Physical Society Fellows
(Nominated Division)
Husam Alshareef
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics)
Jiming Bao
University of Houston (Division of Materials Physics)
Katia Bertoldi
Harvard University (Topical Group on Soft Matter)
James William Bray
GE Global Research (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics)
Jasna Brujic
New York University (Topical Group on Soft Matter)
Michael L. Chabinyc
University of California, Santa Barbara (Division of Polymer Physics)
Markus Deserno
Carnegie Mellon University (Division of Biological Physics)
Wenhui Duan
Tsinghua University (Division of Computational Physics)
Jutta E. Escher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Division of Nuclear Physics)
Hendrik F. Hamann
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics)
Kristjan Haule
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Division of Materials Physics)
Can-Ming Hu
University of Manitoba (Topical Group on Magnetism)
Alan James Hurd
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Forum on International Physics)
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Yale University (Division of Materials Physics)
Robert A. Kaindl
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Division of Laser Science)
Lisa M. Manning
Syracuse University (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
Masaki Oshikawa
The University of Tokyo (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
Aydogan Ozcan
University of California, Los Angeles (Division of Laser Science)
Idalia Ramos
University of Puerto Rico at Humacao (Forum on Education)
Harry Francis Robey
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Division of Plasma Physics)
Connie Barbara Roth
Emory University (Division of Polymer Physics)
Sayeef Salahuddin
University of California, Berkeley (Division of Materials Physics)
Carlos Silva
Georgia Institute of Technology (Division of Chemical Physics)
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
FORTH and University of Crete (Division of Polymer Physics)
Charles Albert Weatherford
Florida A&M University (American Physical Society)
Marion M. White
Argonne National Laboratory (Forum on Physics and Society)
Jing Xia
University of California, Irvine (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
Huili Grace Xing
Cornell University (Division of Condensed Matter Physics)
Xin Zhang
Boston University (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics)
2020 Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Fellows
Mark Asta
University of California, Berkeley
Diana Farkas
Virginia Tech
David McDowell
Georgia Institute of Technology
Neville Moody
Sandia National Lab (Retired)
