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New Materials Reuse Wasted Auto Heat Asserts MRS Bulletin Article

MRS and TMS Announce 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow

The Materials Research Society (MRS) and The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) have selected Megan Brewster from GE Global Research as the 2013-2014 MRS/TMS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow. Brewster will serve a one-year term working as a special legislative assistant on the staff of a member of Congress or congressional committee.

OSA, SPIE and MRS Announce 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows

The Optical Society (OSA); SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics; and the Materials Research Society are pleased to announce their 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows: Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), will serve as the 2013-2014 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow co-sponsored by OSA and SPIE, and Sydney Kaufman, also a Ph.D. candidate at CU-Boulder, will serve as the OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow. Each will serve one-year terms working as special legislative assistants on the staffs of U.S. congressional offices or committees in Washington, D.C.

New Energy and Sustainability Review Journal Launched by the Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press

The Materials Research Society (MRS) and Cambridge University Press have announced that they will be launching a new authoritative review journal focusing on energy and sustainability. The new journal, MRS Energy & Sustainability: A Review Journal, will launch in early 2014. MRS Energy & Sustainability aims to be a high-impact technical review journal focusing on key topics in materials research and development as they relate to energy and sustainability applications.

John A. Rogers to Receive MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has selected John A. Rogers, director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to receive the 2013 Mid-Career Researcher Award “for fundamental and applied contributions to materials, mechanics designs, and assembly techniques for stretchable/flexible electronic systems.”

Chase and Rabolt to Receive 2013 MRS Innovation in Materials Characterization Award

MRS's Innovation in Materials Characterization Award honors outstanding advance in materials characterization that notably increases knowledge of the structure, composition, in situ behavior under outside stimulus, electronic behavior, or other characterization feature, of materials. This year's award will be presented to D. Bruce Chase and John F. Rabolt, University of Delaware, "for development of Fourier Transform Raman Spectroscopy and the demonstration of its utility for examining the chemical structure and properties of organic molecules and polymers in solids, thin films, and solutions."

Experts Embrace New US Strategy on Nuclear Waste

The reawakening of a United States strategy to bury nuclear waste deep underground has won the support of experts, who claim it has always been the best option for dealing with the country's growing nuclear waste stores. Prachi Patel's article, United States launches new direction to manage nuclear waste, recounts the obstacles on the road to successful nuclear waste storage so far and explores what happens next.

Materials Research Society Announces 2013 MRS Fellows

MRS will recognize 24 members as Fellows of the Materials Research Society at the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. This recognition honors MRS members who are notable for their distinguished accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research worldwide.

Alexandra Boltasseva to Receive 2013 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award

MRS's Outstanding Young Investigator Award recognizes outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in materials research by a young scientist or engineer who shows exceptional promise as a developing leader in the materials area. This year's award will be presented to Alexandra Boltasseva, assistant professor at Purdue University, "for pioneering research to develop novel materials for advanced plasmonic, metamaterial and transformation optics devices with potential applications in future nanoscale photonic technologies."

MRS Communications Now Covered in Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded

The Materials Research Society and Cambridge University Press have announced that MRS Communications has been selected for coverage in the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded® (SciSearch ®).