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D E P A R T M E N T H E A D

Dear friends,

I am very pleased to communicate with you again through

Structure, the newsletter of MIT’s Department of Materials

Science and Engineering (DMSE). This issue brings news of

recent developments in DMSE and of the accomplishments

of our faculty, staff, and students. As the Head of DMSE, I

have had the satisfaction of interacting with many of you as

we have reshaped the intellectual and physical landscape of

the Department over the past six years. With our major

initiatives now coming to a successful conclusion, I feel

ready to transition to the next phase with a stronger focus

on some new research initiatives and exciting new global

research alliances. I am pleased to note that Professor Ned

Thomas will succeed me as Head of DMSE effective January

2006. Ned and I are working closely together to ensure a

smooth transition to the next leadership team of the

Department.

The major new initiatives we launched over the past sever-

al years are now bearing fruit. The physical infrastructure of

DMSE is significantly improved with thriving new laborato-

ries for multi-disciplinary research and for undergraduate

teaching in one of the most visible locations of the Institute:

the Infinite Corridor. A number of additional laboratory facil-

ities for research into new and emerging research areas have

been built in the past four years in conjunction with the

recruitment of highly talented young faculty colleagues. The

final phase of the major space renovation project involving

a “space swap” with the Physics Department is well under-

way. The newly renovated DMSE Headquarters and the

new Chipman Room are expected to be ready for occupa-

tion by the end of 2006.

New Faculty: 03

Academics: 06

Honors: 08

Transitions: 11

Subra Suresh, Head of theDepartment of MaterialsScience and Engineering and Ford Professor of Engineering.

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Approximately one-third of the current DMSE faculty mem-

bers were recruited in the last six years, with our newest fac-

ulty colleague, Stephanie Reich, joining us a few months

ago. Our faculty and students continue to excel in their edu-

cational and research activities. A detailed list of their recent

accomplishments, honors, and awards can be found in later

sections of this newsletter. Through the hard work, talent,

and dedication of our colleagues, DMSE continues to have

a major impact in materials education and research on a

global scale. This strong leadership role has also been recog-

nized by US News and World Report which, in its most

recent ranking of materials science and engineering depart-

ments, placed MIT’s DMSE at the very top in both under-

graduate and graduate rankings.

The final phase of DMSE’s new undergraduate curriculum

was introduced in Fall 2005. This curriculum has strength-

ened and invigorated our core educational activities. The

success of the new curriculum is clearly evident from the

enthusiastic response of our undergraduate students to the

new subjects and laboratories, and from the significant

increase in our undergraduate enrollment.

Since the publication of the last issue of Structure in early

2004, DMSE has suffered several significant losses.

Professor Emeritus Nick Grant passed away on May 1, 2004.

Nick’s outstanding contributions in the field of physical met-

allurgy of high-temperature alloys were legendary. He

played major leadership roles in his technical community

through his membership in numerous national and interna-

tional committees, and served as Director of MIT’s Center

for Materials Science and Engineering from 1968 to 1977.

During his many decades of service as a DMSE faculty mem-

ber, he supervised the theses of 93 doctoral students, 51

Master’s students and 74 undergraduate students.

Noteworthy among his many awards and honors was his

election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Cohen, who was a key

figure in reshaping DMSE and the field of materials science

and engineering during much of the twentieth century,

passed away in May 2005. The Department held a memo-

rial service in November at MIT, in conjunction with the

Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, to recog-

nize Morris’s numerous accomplishments. An obituary and a

write-up on this memorial service can be found in this

newsletter. Plans are underway to launch a campaign to

establish a graduate fellowship in Morris’ name.

DMSE was saddened by the death of Fred Wilson, a long-

time employee until his retirement in 2002, and we also

mourned the untimely deaths of two recent alumni, Benoit

Bellier, S.M. 2001, and Lalit Varma, M.Eng., 2003. More

details can be found in this newsletter.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my col-

leagues, students, alumni, and friends, within and outside

MIT, who have helped and supported me during my tenure

as the Head of DMSE over the past six years. A particular

note of gratitude goes to Professor Sam Allen for his extraor-

dinary service as Executive Officer of DMSE, to Robin Elices

for her outstanding leadership role as Administrative Officer,

and to Kenneth Greene for all his hard work as my adminis-

trative assistant in DMSE headquarters. It has been an enor-

mous privilege to lead this truly outstanding department. I

look forward to continued interactions with you in the years

to come, and I wish Ned all the best in his new position.

With warmest wishes,

Subra Suresh

77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 35-421

Cambridge MA 02139-4307

617.253.3320

email: ssuresh@mit.edu

N E W D E P A R T M E N T H E A D

Edwin L. “Ned” Thomas, the Morris Cohen

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has

been appointed head of the Department, effective

January 16, 2006.

“Ned is a noted materials scientist and engineer,

with specific expertise in polymer physics and engi-

neering, phase transformations and microstructure,

and electron microscopy and X-ray scattering,” said

Thomas L. Magnanti, dean of the School of

Engineering, who announced the appointment.

Thomas “has made important contributions to understand-

ing the structure and properties of block copolymers and to

developing quantitative methods for characterizing the

microstructure of polymeric materials,” and has also “devel-

oped both new experimental methods and theoretical mod-

els to guide valid interpretation of the vast range of

microstructures in crystalline, liquid crystalline, and non-

crystalline polymers,” Magnanti said.

Thomas has held several administrative positions at MIT. He

is the founding director of the Institute for Soldier

Nanotechnologies (ISN) and previously served as associate

head for DMSE and as director of the Program in Polymer

Science and Technology. He came to MIT from the

University of Massachusetts, where he founded and served

as co-director of the Institute for Interface Science and was

head of the Department of Polymer Science and

Engineering.

Thomas received the B.S. from the University of

Massachusetts in 1969 and the Ph.D. from Cornell

University in 1974.

N E W F A C U L T Y

Stephanie Reich joined

DMSE in October, 2005, as

the Thomas B. King

Assistant Professor of

Materials Science and

Engineering. She received

the B.S. (1993), the M.S.

(1998), and the Ph.D.

(2001) from Technische

Universitat in Berlin, all in

Physics. She was a post-doc

at the Institute de Ciencia de

Materials de Barcelona, a

research fellow at Newnham College in Cambridge, UK,

and, most recently, an Oppenheimer Fellow at the

University of Cambridge. Her work on carbon nanotubes

and carbon-based materials is recognized internationally, as

is her book, Carbon Nanotubes: Basic Concepts and

Physical Properties.

Professor Reich’s research interests are in nanoscience and

nanotechnology. She aims at understanding how materials

change when making them smaller and smaller and how to

use this for tailoring materials to our needs. To achieve this

goal she uses optical spectroscopy such as photolumines-

cence and Raman scattering and first-principles calculations.

Optical spectroscopy allows not only to study the optical

properties of nanomaterials, but also to measure vibrations

and hardness and to investigate how electrical currents and

heat flow in nanostructures. The experimental work is com-

plemented by modeling and predicting materials behavior

with computer simulations. Current projects concentrate on

carbon and other nanotubes as well as semiconductor

nanowires. These one-dimensional nanosystems can be

used, for example, in nanoelectronics and as linear and non-

linear nanooptical devices such as color-sensitive single-

photon detectors.

F A C U L T Y P R O M O T I O N S

In July 2004, Caroline Ross was promoted to full professor

and Christine Ortiz was promoted to associate professor

without tenure. Angela Belcher was awarded tenure in

2004 and was promoted to full professor in July 2005.

In July 2005, Yoel Fink, Nicola Marzari and Chris Schuh

were promoted to associate professor without tenure.

R E C E N T A P P O I N T M E N T S

Angela Belcher was named the Germeshausen Professor

of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological

Engineering.

Chris Schuh was appointed to the Danae and Vasilios

Salapatas Assistant Professor of Metallurgy, for a period of

three years, beginning July, 2005. The chair is named after

Vasilios Salapatas (Ph.D. 1966) and his wife Danae.

Salapatas is a member of the DMSE Visiting Committee.

Krystyn Van Vliet will hold the position of Lord Foundation

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering for

a period of three years.

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Ned Thomas

We are honored this year that one of our senior faculty, Prof.

Lorna J. Gibson, is the chair of the Institute faculty. Along

with her well known book, Cellular Solids: Structure and

Properties, which now has a second edition, and her active

research on the biomechanics of cellular solids, Prof. Gibson

has been an energetic voice in the Institute and an advocate

for diversity.

R E C O G N I T I O N

In May 2005, Infinite Mile Awards were presented to Esther

Greaves Estwick, Personnel Officer in the Administrative

Services Office (ASO), and to Peter Houk, Director of the

Glass Lab. Through the Infinite Mile Awards, the School of

Engineering publicly recognizes meritorious performance.

Awardees are nominated by co-workers and selected by a

committee comprised, in part, of past winners.

Kenneth E. Greene, Jr., of DMSE Headquarters, and

Erminia Piccinonno, formerly of ASO, both received Infinite

Mile Awards in 2004.

The MIT Rewards and Recognition Program selected Mindy

Baughman, former DMSE employee, as a recipient of a

2004/2005 MIT Excellence Award for her participation on

the Artists Behind the Desk Committee.

Carol A. Roberts, Administrative Assistant in the Center for

Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, joined

MIT’s Quarter Century Club in 2004.

G E M 4 L A U N C H E D

The Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular

Medicine (GEM4) was launched on Oct. 12 at a ceremony

at MIT. This innovative collaboration fosters research and

global alliances at the intersections of engineering, science,

and nanotechnology to medical and public health issues.

Prof. Subra Suresh is the GEM4 director; participants include

scientists from MIT, Harvard University, the National

University of Singapore, Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Max-

Planck Institute, the University of Illinois, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Caltech, Johns Hopkins University and

Chulabhorn Research Institute in Thailand.

GEM4 brings together researchers and professionals in

major institutions across the globe with distinctly different,

but complementary, expertise and facilities to address signif-

icant problems at the intersections of select topics of engi-

neering, life sciences, medicine, and public health.

In addition, GEM4 creates new models for interactions

across scientific disciplinary boundaries whereby problems

spanning the range of fundamental science to clinical stud-

ies and public health can be addressed on a global scale

through strategic international partnerships.

Through initial focus areas in cell and molecular biomechan-

ics, and environmental health, in the context of select

human diseases, GEM4 will create a global forum for the

definition and exploration of grand challenges and scientific

studies, for the cross-fertilization of ideas among engineers,

life scientists and medical professionals, and for the devel-

opment of novel educational tools.

GEM4 is sponsoring a summer school on “Cell and

Molecular Mechanics in Biomedicine” to be held at MIT,

August 7–18, 2006. The summer school will have a special

focus on infectious diseases.

N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S

Several members of the DMSE community have recently

authored books. Prof. Suresh’s Thin Film Materials: Stress,

Defect Formation and Surface

Evolution, co-authored with

L.B. Freund of Brown University,

deals with the theory and appli-

cations of thin films. The book

will also be released in a Chinese

translation in 2006, under the

sponsorship of the Chinese

Academy of Sciences,

Shenyang.

Kinetics of Materials, by Robert

W. Balluffi, Samuel M. Allen, and

W. Craig Carter, grew out of

classroom notes for 3.21, Kinetic

Processes of Materials. In draft

form, this text has been used by

hundreds of Course III graduate

students.

A Very Dangerous Woman, by

Jim Livingston and his wife

Sherry Penney of U.Mass.

Boston, is a biography of his

great-grandmother, Martha

Coffin Wright. The book’s title is

derived from a neighbor’s

description of this suffragist and

abolitionist.

R E N O V A T I O N S A N D M O V E

On the Monday following Commencement 2005, the final

stage of a long series of renovations began.

The “Physics Space Swap” has been discussed and antici-

pated for several years—ultimately, DMSE Headquarters,

the Academic Office, and the Chipman Room will be relo-

cated to the first floor of Building 6 along the Eastman

Court.

To make space for the renovations and new construction, all

floors on the north end Building 6 and all of Buildings 4A

and 6A will be demolished. A new building constructed

inside the court yard will be used by the Physics Department

Floor plans of renovations. Infinite Corridor inBuilding 8 at left, New DMSE headquarters and otherspaces are marked in blue on Floor 1.

Space Initiatives

and will be surrounded by an atrium.

DMSE renovations that have already been completed and

put into use include the NanoLab and the Undergraduate

Teaching Lab on the first floor of the Infinite Corridor and

laboratory spaces used by the Van Vliet, Irvine, and Schuh

groups.

All work will be completed by January 2007. During con-

struction, every attempt will be made to minimize disruption

to permit research and every-day work to continue. DMSE

headquarters and some offices have been temporarily relo-

cated to Building 35.

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KILLIAN COURT

DMSE HEADQUARTERS

E D I T O R :

Rachel A. Kemper, DMSE Communications Coordinator

O R I G I N A L D E S I G N :

Marc Harpin, Rhumba

P R I N T I N G :

Arlington Lithograph

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S :

The articles on Ned Thomas as Dept. Head and the

Ecuadorian rafts are reprinted from Tech Talk. The pho-

tograph of Prof. Thomas and the photograph of the raft

were taken by Donna Coveney/MIT. Christina Mallet

provided cheerful and expert photographic support; she

also took the photograph of Prof. VanderSande. The

appreciation of Prof. VanderSande was written by Prof.

Sadoway. The obituary of Prof. Cohen is adapted from

pieces written by Prof. Thomas for MRS and Physics

Today. Thanks to Maryann Czerepak of PSB for her

friendly advice and troubleshooting assistance.

Academic Initiatives

U N D E R G R A D U A T E

C U R R I C U L U M U P D A T E

Now in its third year, the revised Course III undergraduate

curriculum is garnering praise from students, faculty, and the

MIT administration. It was also recognized by US News and

World Report, which ranked the program first in the nation.

DMSE undergraduate enrollment is now at its highest point

in the department’s history and Prof. Caroline Ross was pre-

sented with the Irwin Sizer Award in recognition of her

efforts to survey student needs and to create an academic

program that addresses and meets the changing field of

materials science.

The junior year curriculum was initiated in Fall 2004 and its

subjects include 3.032, Mechanical Properties of Materials;

3.034, Organic and Biomaterials Chemistry; 3.042,

Materials Project Laboratory; and 3.044 Materials

Processing. Many subjects are taught in the Undergraduate

Teaching Laboratory on the first floor of the Infinite Corridor

in Building 8.

G R A D U A T E C U R R I C U L U M

U P D A T E

Our graduate program continues to lead the field. Again,

US News and World Report named it the top materials

program in the country. Our enrollment is strong and we are

committed to maintaining our excellent academic and

research experience so that we deserve the national and

international reputation we currently hold.

Students setting up solar cells in Killian Court aspart of an assignment in 3.042, Materials ProjectLaboratory.

to learn more

about educational activities within DMSE,

please visit our website at http://dmse.mit.edu

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S A I L S T H E C H A R L E S

Four MIT students found their inner Huckleberry Finns dur-

ing the summer of 2004, inspired by a comment in a lecture

on how metallurgy was introduced to Mexico 1,300 years

ago. In the lecture, Dorothy Hosler, professor of archeology

and ancient technology, noted that early efforts at making a

raft to travel from Ecuador to Mexico had failed. Taking this

nugget of history as a 21st century engineering challenge,

four students—Leslie Dewan, a junior in nuclear engineer-

ing; Daniel Cohen, a junior in physics; Danny Shen, a senior

in electrical engineering and computer science, and Ryan

Bavetta, a sophomore in mechanical engineering—built

their own raft. For guidance in their month-long project, the

students used documents written by 15th and 16th century

Italian and Spanish explorers as well as 20th century sources

including Thor Heyerdahl, author of Kon Tiki, and Jenny

Estrada, author of La Balsa, about early Ecuadorian naviga-

tion. The boat made its maiden voyage August 2, 2004, on

the Charles River, with Hosler as guest of honor. With its

three moveable centerboards, four energetic paddlers and

one owl-faced sail, the raft handled the river’s shifting cur-

rents easily. The four students hope to build a second raft,

using authentic materials of balsa and cocobolo wood, and

start a trip in Ecuador.

The story was covered in Tech Talk, the Boston Globe, and

Science magazine.

Raft at sail on the Charles.

The Graduate Materials Council (GMC) presented the 2004

Excellence in Graduate Advising Award to Prof. Sam Allen

and Dr. Bob O’Handley. The 2004 GMC Excellence in

Teaching Award was presented to Prof. Francesco Stellacci.

In 2005, Prof. Chris Schuh received the Excellence in

Graduate Advising Award and Sam Allen the Excellence in

Teaching Award.

With his co-authors, Prof. Allen received the award for the

best oral presentation at the 2005 Solid Freeform Fabrication

Symposium for their paper, “Improving Accuracy of Powder

Sintering-based SFF Processes by Metal Deposition from

Nanoparticle Dispersion.”

One of the 2004

MacArthur Fellowship

recipients was Prof.

Angela Belcher. The five-

year award for $500,000

is commonly known as a

“genius grant.” Prof.

Belcher is recognized for

her groundbreaking work

in “developing new tech-

niques for manipulating

systems that straddle the

boundary of organic and

inorganic chemistry at the

molecular scale.” The

MacArthur Foundation

has awarded 682

Fellowships since 1981.

Prof. Belcher received a four-star recognition award for

“significant contributions to Army Transformation.” She was

also named one of the Nanotech Power Elite by

Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report.

The Mass High Tech newsletter recognized Prof. Belcher as

one of the “Women to Watch.” This annual list spotlights

innovators who will “shape the future” and serve as role

models for girls interested in science and engineering.

Fortune magazine named Prof. Belcher to their 2005 list of

“10 People to Watch.” This list recognizes innovators who

will have a direct impact on our lives.

At the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic

Society (ACerS), Prof. Craig Carter received the Richard M.

Fulrath Award. The Fulrath Award recognizes outstanding

academic and industrial ceramic engineers/scientists and the

awardees participate in the Fulrath Symposium at the

Annual Meeting and then present a paper at the Annual

Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan.

The Electrochemical Society named Prof. Gerd Ceder one of

the 2004 Battery Division Research Award Recipients. The

award for“outstanding contributions to the science and

technology of primary and secondary cells and batteries and

fuel cells” was presented at the Society’s Fall Meeting.

Prof. Tom Eagar and his former student Patricio Mendez

were awarded the Charles H. Jennings Memorial Medal by

the American Welding Society.

Prof. Yoel Fink received the NAS Award for Initiatives in

Research, a $15,000 prize awarded annually in a field sup-

porting information technology (condensed matter/materi-

als science in 2004) to recognize innovative young scientists

and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capa-

bilities for human benefit. He was chosen “for his pioneer-

ing contributions and ingenuity in the creative design and

development of photonic materials and devices.”

Prof. Mert Flemings received an honorary doctorate at the

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in recog-

nition of his role as a pioneer and his exceptional scientific

contributions in the field of solidification and foundry.

The American Society of Materials International (ASM

International) presented Prof. Flemings with the Albert

Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award. The award,

established in 1960, recognizes unusually long and devoted

service in teaching as well as significant accomplishments in

materials science and engineering, and an unusual ability to

inspire and impart enthusiasm to students.

Prof. Flemings received the Gold Medal of the Japan

Institute of Metals in 2005. This award recognizes outstand-

ing achievements in advancing science and technology of

metallurgy and materials science.

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Faculty Honors

Angela Belcher, “GeniusGrant” recipient, was pre-sented with a lightbulbduring a celebration inher honor.

At the March 2006 TMS Meeting, Prof. Flemings will be

appointed an Honorary Member of The American Institute

of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).

Prof. Darrell Irvine was one of Technology Review’s

TR100 for 2004; the TR100 recognizes the top young inno-

vators in technology in a given year. Prof. Irvine studies

immunology and addresses drug delivery techniques

through development of an artificial tissue structure that can

act as a scaffold environment similar to the lymph node.

Prof. Jim Livingston was recognized as an Outstanding

Freshman Advisor; he has led a Freshman Advising Seminar

on “Attraction and Repulsion: The Magic of Magnets” for

twelve years.

In 2004, Prof. Caroline Ross received the Irwin Sizer Award

for the Most Significant Improvement in MIT Education. As

Chair of the Department’s Undergraduate Committee, Prof.

Ross has had a key role in refining the Course 3 curriculum.

Prof. Ross was elected fellow of the American Physical

Society (APS) for her “innovative research into the magnet-

ic properties of thin film and nanoscale structures, and for

the development of novel lithographic and self-assembly

methods for nanostructure fabrication.”

In 2004, Prof. Don Sadoway received the Everett More

Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate

Teaching in recognition of his exceptional interest and abili-

ty in the instruction of undergraduates. As the instructor for

3.091, Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, he is known as

one of the most dynamic instructors at MIT and counts over

half of the first-year class as his students each year.

Prof. Chris Schuh received a 2004 Office of Naval Research

Young Investigators Award.

Prof. Schuh also received the Presidential Early Career

Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) at a ceremony

at the White House in fall 2004. He was nominated by the

Department of Defense.

Prof. Francesco Stellacci was one of the 2005 TR35,

Technology Review’s list of 35 top technology innovators

under 35 (until 2005, the list was called the TR100).

Prof. Stellacci has received one of the 2005 Packard

Fellowships for Science and Engineering. The David and

Lucile Packard Foumdation established these awards in

1988 to allow promising professors to pursue science and

engineering research early in their careers with few funding

restrictions and limited paperwork requirements.

Prof. Subra Suresh was elected to the American Academy

of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2004. AAAS Fellows and

Foreign Honorary Members are world-renowned leaders in

science, engineering, medicine, business, the arts, and

public affairs.

Prof. Suresh will receive the Acta Materialia Gold Medal at

the MRS 2006 Fall Meeting in Boston. He was nominated

by two different international materials societies for his

“pioneering contributions to metallurgy, materials science

and engineering, engineering mechanics, fracture mechan-

ics, fatigue of materials, thin films, and cell and molecular

biomechanics.”

At the ASM International annual meeting, Prof. Suresh was

awarded the 2004 Albert Sauveur Achievement Award. The

award recognizes his “outstanding contributions to the

understanding of deformation behavior at different length

scales and mechanics of materials and demonstrated leader-

ship in materials education.” The Sauveur Award is named

for an early alumnus of our department.

Prof. Suresh received a Humboldt Research Award, con-

ferred by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in

recognition of lifetime achievements in science. Awardees

are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice

with colleagues in Germany.

In Dec. 2004, Prof. Suresh was elected to the Third World

Academy of Sciences. He was recognized for his “broad,

innovative and pioneering contributions to the area of

mechanical properties of materials” which “has led to the

understanding of these properties from the atomistic to the

continuum levels.” He was also recently elected an

Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Harry Tuller received an honorary doctorate (Docteur

Honoris Causa) in May 2004 from the Universite de

Provence, Marseille, France for life-long achievements in the

field of Electroceramics. Prof. Tuller, at his investiture attend-

ed by members of the humanities and the sciences, pre-

sented a lecture entitled “Materials Science and the

Environment: A Career Theme.”

U N D E R G R A D U A T E

S T U D E N T A W A R D S

Anna Bershteyn’s Solar Water Disinfectant Device team

were winners in the 2005 IDEAS competition. Julie Goss

was recognized with the Star Volunteer Award for her three

years of working on the IDEAS competition.

Catarina Bjelkengren, a DMSE senior, was one of the par-

ticipants and organizers of the 8th annual MIT $50K GSW

Conference held in Abu Dhabi, UAE last year. As a result of

good established connections with the Higher Colleges of

Technology (HCT) in Abu Dhabi, she was invited by Dr.

Tayeb A. Kamali, CEO and Managing Director of the HCT,

to introduce the theme of thinking at the opening ceremo-

ny of the Festival of Thinkers—a conference highlighting

technological developments facing society today, attended

by Nobel Prize Laureates and world leaders, and by 300 pro-

fessors and students from the region.

Kasetta Coleman received the 2004 Ronald E. McNair

Scholarship Award for her combination of strong academic

performance and considerable contribution to the minority

community. Nduka Enemchukwu received the 2005 Ronald

E. McNair Scholarship.

Lesley Frame received the 2004 DMSE Outstanding Senior

Thesis Award for “Investigations at Tal-I Iblis: Evidence for

Copper Smelting During the Chalcolithic Period.” Her thesis

advisor was Prof. Heather Lechtman. Yuki Hori received the

2004 Best Internship Report Award for “Contamination-

Resistant Coatings in the Paper Machine Industry.” Her

internship advisor was Prof. Ned Thomas.

Christopher Ng received the 2005 Outstanding Senior

Thesis award for “Determination of Special Boundary

Coordination at Quadruple Nodes using EBSD.” His thesis

advisor was Christopher Schuh. The 2005 award for Best

Internship Report was presented to Julie Goss for

“Measuring the Wettability of ePTFE Tubing using Dynamic

Contact Angle Analysis (DCA).” Her internship advisor was

Adam Powell.

Yuki Hori, Ana Ramos and Michelle Seitz were named

Outstanding Students in DMSE Class of 2004. Elizabeth

Hager was named Outstanding Student: DMSE Class of

2005. Joanna Natsios and David Schoen were named

Outstanding Juniors in 2004. Anna Bershteyn was named

the 2005 Outstanding Junior. David Gray was named

Outstanding Sophomore in 2004.The 2005 Outstanding

Sophomore was Irene Tobias.

Timmie Ting-Wei Hong was named to the Phi Beta Kappa

Society in 2004. Kevin McComber, David Schoen, and

Peter Stone were named to Phi Beta Kappa in 2005.

In 2004, Yuki Hori and Michelle Seitz received certificates

recognizing their perfect 5.0 cumulative undergraduate

grade-point average. In 2005, certificates were presented to

Elizabeth Hager, Joanna Natsios, and Peter Stone.

In Feb. 2004, the “Surreptiles,” a team including Byron

Hsu, Forrest Liau, David Lin, and Han Xu, were second-

place winners of an ISN-sponsored competition for students

to design technology to benefit soldiers; they developed a

glove that translates hand signals into voice commands by

using sensors and radios.

Jina Kim received a 2004 Service Award for renewing the

MIT chapter of Best Buddies.

Tanya Cheng received Honorable Mention for the S. Klein

Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing in 2004. Jiji Gu

received honorable mention in the 2005 Boit Manuscript

Prize—essay. Anita Kris received the 2004 Robert A. Boit

Writing Prize—Short Story, First Prize. In 2005, she received

honorable mention in the same category. Elizabeth Zellner

was awarded second place in the 2005 Writing Science

Fiction Prize.

In both 2004 and 2005, Kevin McComber was recognized

with the Award for Outstanding Service to the DMSE

Community for his active and innovative role as president of

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Student Honors

Catarina Bjelkengren takes a side trip during the$50K GSW conference.

Ana Ramos was granted a Fulbright U.S. Advanced Student

award to spend 2004–05 in France. She completed a

“Master of Science and Technology” program in Materials

Science and Nano-objects.

Michelle Seitz received the 2004 Henry Ford II Award. This

award is made to a senior engineering student with a cumu-

lative average of 5.0 at the end of the 7th term and excep-

tional potential for leadership in engineering and society.

Grady Snyder and other members of the MIT Swim Team

qualified to compete in the NCAA Division III Swimming

and Diving Championships held in Holland, MI in March

2005. The MIT team was ranked tenth in the nation.

G R A D U A T E S T U D E N T A W A R D S

Among the medal recipients at the 2005 Fall MRS Meeting

in Boston were four MIT graduate students: Shin Chou of

Chemistry (silver medal), Alicia Jackson of DMSE (silver

medal), Kisuk Kang of DMSE (gold medal), and John Mills

of DMSE (gold medal). Jennifer Vandiver received a Poster

Award. Nominated for Poster Awards were Lin Han and

Benjamin Bruet.

Four MIT graduate students were recognized as medal win-

ners at the 2004 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston: Ion Bita (sil-

ver medal) of DMSE, Delphine Dean of EECS (gold medal),

Jifeng Liu of DMSE (gold medal), and Daniel Solis of

Chemistry (silver medal). John Mills and his co-authors

received a “Ribbon Award” for their paper, “Continuous

Force-displacement Relationships for the Human Red Blood

Cell at Different Erythrocytic Developmental Stages of

Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Parasite,” presented at the

Dec. 2004 MRS meeting.

Ming Tang received the Diamond Award for ACerS

Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS).

Established by the Basic Science Division, this award recog-

nizes students for their academic and scientific accomplish-

ments, and for research they present at the conference.

Manish Deopura’s work on the “perfect mirror” was exhib-

ited in the Talente 2004 competition. This project was car-

ried out under the guidance of Prof. Yoel Fink and Prof.

Chris Schuh.

Kristin Brodie Domike, 2003, M.Eng. 2004, and her

TulipMed team were finalists in the 2004 Venture Bowl,

sponsored by the National Institute for Entrepreneurship.

The finalists competed for funding for their proposed busi-

ness and the title of Forbes Magazine’s Future Capitalist.

TulipMed’s product is a novel endotracheal tube (named

because the product looks like one tulip inverted on anoth-

er). Ms. Domike is now a Ph.D. candidate in Physics at the

University of Cambridge.

Lara Abbaschian and George Whitfield received the 2004

John Wulff Award for Excellence in Teaching. The 2005

Wulff Award was presented to Wanida Pongsaksawad.

The 2005 Elsevier Outstanding Graduate Student Prize was

awarded to Kathleen Huffman.

Karlene Maskaly and Agnieska Stachowiak were selected

to attend GE’s Technology and Innovation Day in July 2004;

this event is a networking event for top female Ph.D. stu-

dents in the northeastern United States.

Aaron Raphel won the 2004 Charles “Harrison” Smith

Award from the Engineering Systems Division.

Catherine Tweedie received the 2004 Pewter Bowl Award,

presented to the female senior student who has shown the

highest qualities of inspiration and leadership in contributing

to women’s athletics.

Ms. Tweedie also received the Betsy Schumacker Award for

excellence in athletic competition and placed 8th in the

nation at the NCAA track and field championships. She is a

recipient of NDSEG and NSF graduate fellowships.

A L U M N I N E W S

Chinedum Osuji, Ph.D. 2003, competed in Taekwondo for

Trinidad and Tobago in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He

competed in the Men’s Under 80kg (Preliminary Round of

16) versus Rashad Ahmadov of Azerbaijan.

In 2004, Richard P. Simmons ’53 was awarded MIT’s

Bronze Beaver, the Alumni Association’s highest award,

given to volunteers for outstanding service to the Institute.

“The Hillert Symposium—Thermodynamics and Kinetics of

Migrating Interfaces in Steels and Complex Alloys” was held

in Stockholm in Dec. 2004, to celebrate the 80th birthday of

Mats Hillert, Sc.D. 1956, professor emeritus at the Royal

Institute of Technology. Among those contributing to the

publication commemorating this event was Dr. John Cahn,

a former DMSE faculty member who is now a Senior Fellow

at NIST. Dr. Hillert’s thesis advisor was Prof. Morris Cohen.

Karl Reid, ’84, M.S. ’85, was honored by the National

Society of Black Engineers who named him the Minority

Engineering Programs Director of the Year. Reid, assistant to

the chancellor and associate dean for undergraduate educa-

tion, was a recipient of a MIT Excellence Award this year in

recognition of his work with minority outreach.

Miguel Marioni, Ph.D. 2003, was invited to present at the

2004 Deshpande Innovation while he was a post-doc in Dr.

O’Handley’s group. Dr. Marioni is now employed by the

Swiss Federal Research Lab.

Mireille Treuil Clapp, Ph.D. ’79, donated a piece of her art-

work to the department. “Sand Casts of Time” were

installed in the Chipman

Room in March 2005. The

pieces are welded and

made of steel, stainless

steel, and velvet. Dr.

Clapp has worked as a

sculptor for ten years and

has used this process for

the past three years. Her

artwork has been exhibit-

ed in sculpture shows at

many museums and gal-

leries, and is held in

private collections in the

US and in Europe.

O B I T U A R I E S

Morris Cohen, Institute

Professor Emeritus, passed

away May 27 at his home

in Swampscott, Mass.

Born in Chelsea, Mass.,

Morris’ long association

with MIT began as a

freshman in the fall of

1929. He earned the S.B.

in Metallurgy in 1933 and

the Sc.D. in Metallurgy in

1936 and was appointed

an Instructor in the

Department of Metallurgy

that year. He became full professor in 1946, was named

Ford Professor of Metallurgy in 1962, and was recognized

across MIT by promotion to Institute Professor in 1975.

Morris’ doctoral thesis on “Aging Phenomena in Silver-

Copper Alloys” was carried out under the noted metal

physicist, Prof. John T. Norton. His early work focused on

improving the strength and toughness of metals and was

soon connected to the war effort. During World War II, as

Associate Director of the Manhattan Project at MIT, Morris

helped develop processes to convert uranium powder into

solid pieces of uranium metal. These castings were used for

the famous “pile” built in Chicago. Cohen’s work on forg-

ing and rolling of this newly investigated metal contributed

to the programs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the

Oak Ridge facilities in Tennessee, and the Hanford site in

Washington. During the war, Morris also helped develop

non-magnetic steel that could be used as armor plate on the

bridge of ships and in locations near compasses in other mil-

itary transport craft. Related to his war work was an investi-

gation to understand the dimensional stability of metals

after manufacture, as a function of storage time and tem-

perature, of significant importance to the interchangeability

and close tolerances required of ordnance equipment.

After the war, Morris worked with his students to under-

stand how heat treatment hardens and toughens tool and

structural steels. He focused on investigating the fundamen-

tals of the Martensitic transformation in steel and how this

phase transformation improves steel’s mechanical proper-

ties. Self diffusion and interdiffusion studies led to studies of1110

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microstructural changes during tempering of iron alloys.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, this work created a much

more basic knowledge of how to strengthen steel and made

practical today’s ultra-high-strength steels. Morris' many

contributions to the mechanisms and kinetics of the Mar-

tensite transformation, tempering phenomena, strengthen-

ing mechanisms, age hardening of alloys, strain induced

transformations, and rapid solidification of alloys were major

milestones in the emerging field of materials science.

Cohen served as ASM President and was awarded ASM's

Howe Medal in 1945 and 1949. In addition to his leadership

in metals research, Morris acted as a major leader in the new

field of materials science and engineering, serving as the co-

chair of the National Academy COSMAT Study (Committee

on the Survey of Materials Science and Engineering),

“Materials and Man’s Needs.” This report, known as the

“Cohen Report,” influenced national policy on materials

education and research.

Morris’ extensive national service included advisory roles to

the National Academy of Sciences, National Science

Foundation, NASA, and the National Academy of

Engineering. He published some 300 research papers and

supervised more than 150 graduate and postdoctoral stu-

dents. In recognition of his fundamental work on metals and

their industrial applications, Morris received the National

Medal of Science from President Carter in 1977 and, in

1987, Morris won the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.

Morris’ scientific vision and dedication to the field of mate-

rials science and engineering, along with his warm and gra-

cious nature, will be deeply missed. He is survived by his son

Joel, many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a large

extended family.

In November, over 150 friends, students, colleagues, and

members of the Cohen family gathered to celebrate the life

and contributions of this remarkable man. Prof. Ned Thomas

hosted the event, which included Joel Cohen’s reminiscences

of family life in and around MIT. Rabbi Jonas Goldberg of

Temple Sinai in Marblehead spoke of Prof. Cohen’s deep

commitment to his religious community. Other tributes were

provided by Prof. Mert Flemings, Andrew Kulin, and Greg

Olson (through a letter read by his daughter Elise). It was

especially touching that Marge Meyer, Prof. Cohen’s assis-

tant for more than four decades, flew in from Florida that

morning and spoke of the dedication he felt to his students,

so many of whom were in attendance.

Frederick D. Wilson. We were also saddened by the death

on September 9, 2005, of Fred Wilson, a DMSE employee

from 1959 until his retirement in 2002. Fred joined MIT as a

technician and became Project Machinist in the Ceramics

Processing Laboratory in 1971. In 1987, he was promoted

to a sponsored research staff position as Laboratory

Supervisor of the Ceramics and Glass Laboratories. Fred also

assisted DMSE in space management and in implementation

of department safety examinations in the years preceding

his retirement.

Benoit Bellier, S.M. 2001, died on November 21, 2004.

Benoit was a Plant Manager at Ibiden DPF France SAS in

Courtenay, France. His father writes, “Benoit was the eld-

est of our four children, and our family will never forget

his courage, human qualities and cleverness. To face this

terrible event, we have been lucky to be supported by

many friends, including Benoit’s friends who met him at

Ecole Polytechnique in Paris or at MIT. Benoit enjoyed

very much his stay in Boston in your institute, and my

wife, myself and our youngest daughter Sophie will never

forget the wonderful days we had in Boston attending

the graduate ceremony. Please accept our thanks for

what you have done for Benoit during this period.”

Lalit Varma, M.Eng. 2003, drowned in July 2004 while trav-

eling in Malaysia. Lalit wrote his M.Eng. thesis, “Controlled

Release Microchip,” with Prof. Michael Cima and was an

active member of the DMSE community and of Ashdown

House during his MIT education. He held a B.Tech. in

Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of

Technology (1998) and an M.Eng. in Mechanical

Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (2001).

At the time of his death, Lalit was employed in Singapore.

R E T I R E M E N T

John B. VanderSande,

Cecil and Ida Green

Distinguished Professor,

retired in June 2005 after

a thirty-year career at the

Institute.

John received the B.S. in

mechanical engineering

from Stevens Institute of

Technology in 1966, and

the Ph.D. in materials sci-

ence from Northwestern

University in 1970. He

was a post-doctoral Fulbright Scholar with P.B. Hirsch at the

University of Oxford, Department of Metallurgy.

John’s scholarly activities have focused on the observation of

the structure of materials, particularly metals and ceramics,

by various forms of electron microscopy, as well as on the

relationship between the processing of a material and its

performance. As an example of the latter, modifying

microstructure through rapid solidification processing has

been a favorite topic of John’s. Following the discovery of

so-called high-temperature superconducting oxides, John

directed some of his attention to the study of these fasci-

nating materials. Out of this branch of his research came

inventions that helped establish the basis for technology

around which American Superconductor Corporation was

founded. In the area of the environment, safety, and health

John has studied carbonaceous material produced by com-

bustion processes in an effort to correlate particle structure

and composition with the particle source.

In addition to his fine teaching, research, and committee

work in DMSE, John made major contributions to the

Institute. From June 1992 to January 1999, John served as

Associate Dean of the School of Engineering, during which

time on two occasions he became Acting Dean. He played

a seminal role in the formation of the Singapore-MIT

Alliance, MIT’s distance education collaboration with the

National University of Singapore, the Nanyang

Technological University, and the government in Singapore.

He was the first Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT

Institute (CMI), a major alliance between the University of

Cambridge and MIT funded by the British government and

industry for the purpose of improving productivity and

entrepreneurship in the UK.

Among his awards and honors is the 1994 Columbus

Quincentennial Award from the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts for his co-founding of American

Superconductor which earned him recognition for his “spir-

it of discovery” and for his “breakthrough work in develop-

ing high-temperature superconductors.” Emblematic of

John’s love of MIT and its students, he and co-recipient Dr.

Gregory Yurek gave the $5,000 prize along with $5,000 in

American Superconductor stock to the Undergraduate

Research Opportunities Program (UROP) to promote the

development of innovative applications of high-temperature

superconductor wires. For his work as the first Executive

Director of CMI he was named Extraordinary Fellow,

Churchill College, University of Cambridge (2000).

In retirement John can look forward to having the time to

enjoy his many off-campus interests which include swim-

ming, cycling, classical music, numismatics, antique

American furniture, and Colonial New England architecture.

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!MIT and DMSE thank our generous alumni/ae for their support

of MIT and its programs during the fiscal years ending in June

2004 and June 2005.Donors

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H A N Y A N G U N I V E R S I T YOn March 16, 2004, Dr. Chong Yang Kim, President of

Hanyang University, visited MIT and the Department of

Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Kim was accompa-

nied by five members of the Hanyang University adminis-

tration and faculty. During the visit, the Hanyang

Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, located in the DMSE

Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, was dedicated and the

Hanyang University–MIT Department of Materials Science

and Engineering Educational and Outreach Program was

formally established. We are grateful for Hanyang’s support

and look forward to many years of friendship and research

interactions.

The year of graduation refers to the date the most recent Course 3 degree was conferred.

Graduate degrees are indicated with a “G.”

Prof. Sam Allen, President Kim of HanyangUniversity, and President Vest after the dedication ofthe Hanyang Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory.

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Martin L. Green G ’78Robert M. Green G ’53Susan Gertzis Greenberg ’86Barry N. Greene G ’66Richard B. Greenwalt ’51Abbie Sue C. Gregg ’74Karen K. Greig ’96Manohar S. Grewal G ’72William A. Griffith G ’50Vernon Griffiths G ’55Michael R. Groleau ’90Allen W. Grove ’90Jacob D. Gubbay ’56John J. Gullotti ’78Cynthia G. Gumbert ’91Mehmet N. Gungor G ’86Honglin Guo G ’98Amita Gupta ’91Julie Gupta G ’92Monica L. Gupta ’94Joseph Gurland G ’51Elizabeth A. Hager 2005John P. Hager G ’69John S. Haggerty G ’66Henry Hahn ’51Ernest L. Hall G ’77Mary E. Hamilton ’97Thomas A. Hamilton ’56Evan J. Hammerman ’80Helen N. Han G ’94Young C. Han G ’88Erika Hanley-Onken ’95William S. Hannan, Jr. G ’47Rodney E. Hanneman G ’64Steven S. Hansen G ’78Marvin B. Happ G ’56Robert A. Hard G ’57Anne B. Hardy G ’88Diane L. Harper G ’82James M. Harris G ’69M. Lance Harris ’85Ronald F. Harris ’53Susan E. Hartfield-Wunsch

G ’88Hans S. Hartmann G ’64William L. Hartrick ’54Glen M. Hartzler G ’66Owen G. Haselton ’59Frank R. Hatch ’35Christine S. Hau-Riege G 2000Stefan Peter Hau-Riege

G 2000Roy D. Haworth ’39Anya K. Hawrylchak ’98George T. Haymaker, Jr. ’59Francois B. Haymann G ’68Andy Hegedus ’79Herman R. Heideklang G ’65Adam S. Helfant ’85Benjamin Hellweg G 2000Robert A.A. Hentschel G ’36Michael V. Herasimchuk ’39Francis B. Herlihy ’42Edward Hernandez ’95Hamlet Herring III G ’83Laurence C. Hicks G ’33Nelson C. Hicks ’60Richard J. Higgins ’60Lloyd H. Hihara G ’89Gregory J. Hildeman G ’78David C. Hill G ’70Joseph T. Hillman ’82Charles D. Himmelblau G ’75

Ann S. Hirahara G ’95Donald R. Hixson G ’74Kay C. Ho ’87Lan H. Hoang G ’96Diane Hodges Popps ’95Harald Hoegh G 2001Walton W. Hofmann ’34Alfred F. Hofstatter ’52Ronald Mark Hollander ’74Kenneth D. Holmes ’55Roger P. Holmstrom G ’80Yuki Hori 2004William F. Hosford, Jr. G ’59Isako Hoshino G ’97Nicole F. Hou 2004Charles R. Houska G ’57Simone Peterson Hruda G ’92John I. Hsia ’53Amy Chuan-Yi Hsiao ’96Peter Yaw-Ming Hsieh G ’99Chwanhai H. Hsiung 2004Hao Hu 2004Helen J. Huang 2001Terry N. Huang 2003Edward E. Hucke G ’54Nancy M. Huelsmann ’82Gordon Hunter G ’84George F. Hurley G ’65J. Rowland Huss G ’90John R. Hutchins III G ’59Margaret B. Hvatum G ’78Julia J. Hwang ’94Jennifer A. Hyman ’87Jeri A. Ikeda G ’92Tadashi Imai G ’97Henry Inouye G ’52Emi Ishida ’88F. Sam Jabara ’66Ann Jacob ’89Jeffrey E. Jacob G ’87Scott K. Jacobsmeyer ’92Paul D. Jacobson ’60Donald Jaffe G ’53Arun Jain G ’81Bor Z. Jang G ’82John A. Jensen, Jr. G ’71Mark H. Jhon 2001Jimmy Y. Jia G 2004Eva Jiran G ’90Earl C. Johns G ’85Eric C. Johnson ’67Francis Johnson G ’99Stanley T. Johnson ’36Timothy V. Johnson G ’87Walter E. Johnson ’51William R. Johnson ’42Douglas C. Johnston G ’67Tamala R. Jonas G ’93Christine K. Jones ’95Eric M. Jones G ’87Kenneth A. Jones G ’68Ticora V. Jones 2000Pamela J. Jorgensen G ’76Sandra K. Joung G ’96Bertrand G. Journet G ’86Kenneth G. Jow G 2003Janet L. Jozwiak ’82Andreas J. Judas ’89Debra R. Judelson ’73Soyoung Jung 2000Debra L. Kaiser G ’85Sumner H. Kalin ’38Karsten August Kallevig ’99

E C S H O N O R S P R O F . U H L I G

The Electrochemical Society (ECS)

has begun a campaign to endow an

ECS Summer Fellowship in honor of

Herbert H. Uhlig. This fellowship will

provide $5,000 of support to an

exceptional graduate student during

the summer months in the pursuit of

work in a field of interest to ECS. ECS

has awarded over 250 summer fel-

lowships since 1930.

Herbert H. Uhlig CM ‘32 Ph.D. was

ECS president from 1955-56. He

was active in society affairs since

1937, including serving as Vice President in 1952 and help-

ing to found the current Corrosion and Theoretical (now

Physical Electrochemistry) Divisions. He authored many

papers, was the editor of The Journal of The

Electrochemical Society, and edited the very well regarded

Corrosion Handbook. Dr. Uhlig received numerous Society

awards and honors: the Palladium Medal Award in 1961,

Honorary Membership in 1973, the Outstanding

Achievement Award of the Corrosion Division in 1985, and

the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award in 1988.

Over the years, Professor Uhlig taught, inspired, and gradu-

ated more than 100 M.S. students, over 20 Ph.D. students,

and an equal number of post-graduate fellows. He and his

students published 175 papers.

Spearheading the Fellowship campaign are Aziz Asphahani,

Ronald Latanision (emeritus, HM 2002), Florian Mansfeld,

and Winston Revie ’72 Ph.D., and his wife Greta. ECS hopes

to award the first Fellowship in Spring 2006.

Please contact Troy Miller at troy.miller@electrochem.org

with questions about this campaign or to make a donation.

Herbert H. Uhlig

Professor Uhlig had great wisdom and knowledge and was always

willing to share this with students and his colleagues in industry,

government and academia. He was a man of integrity who worked

hard, was tenacious and was always willing to help others.

—Robert Baboian

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Rachel E. Kaminer ’89Robert H. Kane G ’68Junichi Kaneko G ’67John Y. Kang G ’99Paul J. Kang G ’98Shinhoo Kang G ’83Christopher D. Kantner ’97Rakesh R. Kapoor G ’89Maurice S. Karpman G ’87Firoze E. Katrak G ’79Theodoulos Z. Kattamis G ’65Allan P. Katz ’69Joel D. Katz G ’84Maurice N. Katz ’42Robert Nathan Katz G ’69Thomas F. Kaveney ’50Thomas E. Kazior G ’82Kenneth L. Keating ’47George A. Keig G ’66Christopher K. Keith G ’96Clyde Eugene Kelley G ’74Thomas F. Kelly G ’82Terry Tatad Kennel ’84Maryann C. Kenney G ’83Pamela S. Kenny ’94Lori Meghan Kensel G 2002Donald J. Kenton G ’72LeNore L. Kerber G ’88John C. Kerins ’81Jill P. Kern ’77Ryan J. Kershner G 2004Jeanne A. Kesapradist ’96Jack Keverian G ’54Mansoor A. Khan G ’88Satbir S. Khanuja G ’96Jeffrey G. Killian ’89Heinz Killias G ’64Soo-Jung Kim ’91Yong-Kil Kim G ’88Young Keun Kim G ’93Linne Kimball-Zwetchkenbaum

G ’94Lionel C. Kimerling G ’69Christopher G. King ’82Peter F. King G ’57Ronald S. Kintisch ’57James F. Kirk G ’86Abigail Kirschenbaum G 2003Walter M. Kisner G ’51D. Scott Kitchen ’88Evan F. Klein ’78James D. Klein G ’84Lisa C. Klein G ’77Morton I. Kliman G ’62Edward L. Klopfer ’44Steven K. Knapp ’84Robert P. Knopf ’51Gerald A. Knorovsky G ’77David B. Knorr G ’81Eric C. Knorr G ’75Kyung Hyun Ko G ’88Alan R. Kobrin ’80John K. Koeneman ’55Donald M. Koffman G ’64Adrian F. Kohan G ’97Iwao Kohatsu G ’71Judith K. Kohatsu G ’73Jeffrey G. Kohr G ’71Debra M. Koker ’89Juri Kolts ’64Paige Kolze G ’84Jiang-Ti Kong G ’99Nicholas G. Koopman G ’67

Edward J. Korczynski ’85Christine K. Kornylak ’99Peter J. Koros G ’58Sindo Kou G ’78Joseph Kozol ’54David Kramer ’55Laura Lynn Beecroft Kramer ’91Thomas M. Kramer, Jr. G ’88George Krauss G ’61Kenneth G. Kreider G ’63Gina R. Kritchevsky G ’77Richard A. Krueger G ’90Richard C. Krutenat G ’65Eric B. Kula G ’54S. Andrew Kulin G ’51Pratyush Kumar G ’94David M. Kundrat G ’80Charles R. Kurkjian G ’55Melody M.H. Kuroda G 2001Yukio Kuroda G ’87Barbara C. Kurtin ’66Anthony D. Kurtz G ’55Ronald A. Kurtz G ’60Jane S. Lah ’98Ka-Siu Lai G ’78Raymond K.F. Lam G ’88James C. Lamb III G ’53Chuck Lane ’85John W. Lane ’73Joseph R. Lane G ’50Stanley M. Lane ’35Thomas Andrew Langdo G

2001Kenneth B. Larson G ’64Warren L. Larson G ’50Dinesh S. Lathi ’92Wilbur S. Latimer ’59Felix Lau G 2001David E. Laughlin G ’73William T. Laughlin G ’69Enrique J. Lavernia G ’86Erin B. Lavik G 2001Walter R. Lawson G ’61Nicole Danielle B. Lazo G 2000Eugene A. Leary ’54Michael R. Lebo G ’71D. William Lee G ’58Elissa H. Lee ’98Ellen Lee ’84Shan-Shan C. Lee ’98Grace W. Lee 2001Harvie Ho Lee G ’71Hyuck Mo Lee G ’89John J. Lee ’90Lidia H. Lee G ’84Steven Lee ’96Michelle D. Lefebvre 2001Brian M. Leibowitz G ’84Eric J. Leiser ’82Paul J. Lemaire G ’80Laurence Leonard G ’62Alice M. Leung G ’99Garlen C. Leung ’95Yolanda A. Leung ’94Bernard W. Levinger G ’50Howard L. Levingston G ’61Charles A. Lewinsohn ’87Alexis C. Lewis ’97Bryan Lewis III G ’73Jennifer A. Lewis G ’91Laura H. Lewis G ’88Pascal R. Lewis ’93Kathy Hsinjung Li 2005

Qiong Li G ’88Zhongtao Li G 2000Hung Liang G ’43Barry D. Lichter G ’58Jenny A. Lichter 2004Melissa E. Light 2001Amy C. Lin 2002Angela Y. Lin ’97Angie C. Lin 2004Beatrice L. Lin ’93Ching-Te Lin G ’98David Y. Lin ’98Minfa Lin G ’90Pi-Han Lin 2004Pinyen Lin G ’90Ulf H. Lindborg G ’65Lucinda Linde G ’83Hung C. Ling G ’78Daniel B. Lister G ’55Albert S. Liu 2003Chester Liu G ’92Hongbao Liu G ’95Wendy Liu 2000Thomas Lizzi ’75Herbert W. Lloyd G ’52Isabel K. Lloyd G ’80Ann D. Loomis ’64Robert L. Lord ’51Daniel D. Lowrey 2002Matthew Ian Lozow ’99Mariah D. Luff ’99John W. Lum G ’96John T. Lumis ’49Antonio X. Luna ’83Ruth E. Luna ’81Claude H.P. Lupis G ’65Charles E. Lyman G ’74John P. Lynch, Jr. ’52Mark T. Lynch G ’82Peter F. Lynch, Jr. ’58Vivian M. Ma ’88Robert L. MacCallum, Jr. ’51Bruce A. MacDonald G ’64Robert D. Macdonald G ’40David G. MacIsaac G ’82Robert C. Madden ’35Nargis A. Mahmud G ’84Robert G. Mahorter, Jr. ’57Lori A. Maiorino ’97Sanjeev Makan G ’97Christopher P. Manning ’97

Robert C. Marinos ’82Patrick L. Martin ’72Katharine A. Marvin ’83Thomas O. Mason G ’77Mark S. Mastandrea G ’93Lawrence J. Masur G ’88Pracheeshwar S. Mathur G ’72Douglas M. Matson G ’96Seigo Matsuda G ’61Satoru Matsuo G ’93John E. Matz G ’99Elizabeth Maxwell 2001George Mayer G ’67Lawrence W. Mayer ’52Anne M. Mayes ’86John J. McCarthy G ’59Mary L. McCarthy G ’81Charles I. McCauley ’82John C. McCloskey G ’64John S. McCloy ’96Kevin A. McComber 2005Robert L. McCormick G ’85Heather E. Inglefield G ’95Walter G. McDonough G ’87Andrew C. McGeorge ’94Lisa Megan McGill G 2004Miriam Lachman McGorrin

G ’85Donald W. McGrath ’54John F. McGrath G 2004Kenneth W. McGrath G ’50Michael E. McHenry G ’88David A. McIlroy 2003Paul C. McIntyre G ’93Joanna M. McKittrick G ’88Bruce D. McLaughlin G ’69Linda McLemore ’88Charles J. McMahon, Jr. G ’63Michael McNallan G ’77John R. McNamee, Jr. G ’82Joey L. Mead G ’86Kevin Patrick Meehan G 2001Stewart K. Mehlman ’77Eugene S. Meieran G ’63Kenneth J. Meltsner G ’88Jonas D. Mendelsohn G 2002Michael S. Mendolia ’88Hiroshi Menjo G ’85George D. Menke ’63Thurston S. Merriman ’39Stephen A. Metz G ’70

C O H E N F E L L O W S H I P

In memory of our dear friend Morris Cohen, DMSE will

launch a campaign to establish a graduate student fellow-

ship. Such fellowships allow students to concentrate on

education and to broaden their research horizons, thus

enabling them to make a more informed choice about their

thesis topic. The Department guarantees support for all

first-year graduate students, though that support must take

the form of Teaching or Research Assistantships in some

cases. More information about the Cohen Fellowship will

be available in the coming year.

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Walter Metz ’89Arthur B. Michael G ’52Eugene J. Michal G ’51Stanley J. Michalik G ’62Leon D. Michelove ’54Reid A. Mickelsen G ’63John R. Mihalisin G ’53Alfred N. Miller G ’39Gary A. Miller G ’65James Miller ’43Robert A. Miller ’43Yongki Min G 2003Robert Edward Minshall ’74Richard E. Mistler G ’67Sanjiv Mittal G ’83Richard Mlcak G ’94John E. Moalli G ’92Thomas P. Moffat G ’89William C. Moffatt G ’87William C. Mohr ’84Ling Gee Mok G ’84Sheldon H. Moll G ’59Francois R. Mollard G ’67Trisha Mae Montalbo G 2004Edmund H. Moore G ’87James H. Moore ’40Robert L. Moore ’52William E. Mooz ’50Lina Janavicius Morales G ’84John J. Moran ’48Kenneth R. Morash G ’69Christopher Morgan G ’72Martin M. Morra G ’95John E. Morral G ’69John W. Morris, Jr. G ’69William G. Morris G ’65David W. Morrison ’64Donald D. Morrison G ’70Alan J. Morrow ’73Hugh Morrow III G ’63Larry N. Moskowitz G ’72C. Christopher S. Moss ’80Peter H. Mott G ’92Willard S. Mott ’41Robert S. Mroczkowski G ’67Ayr Muir-Harmony G 2001Uchu Mukai G ’95Pablo Munguia ’91Orhun K. Muratoglu G ’95Thomas M. Murphy G ’69Gilman Y. Murray G ’48Michael Myers G ’70Richard L. Myerson G ’61Peter K. Nagata ’68Anita M. Nagem ’82Paul R. Nahass G ’90Joris Naiman ’76James S. Nakos G ’88Anna P. Napolitano ’89Samuel K. Nash G ’51Joanna M. Natsios 2005Ralph Nauman ’74Arturo D. Nava G ’89William D. Needham G ’86James E. Neely III G ’98Michael A. Neff G ’77Terry S. Neiman ’80Janine M. Nell G ’89Jocelyn L. Nelson G 2001Richard P. Nelson G ’64Krassimir P. Nenov G ’94George E. Nereo G ’66Carl H. Neu ’59

Herbert A. Newborn G ’73Lee H. Ng G ’90Man Fai Ng G ’95Thao A. Nguyen G ’87Barbara M. Nichols ’94Anthony T. Nichtawitz G ’96Jan E. Nielsen ’79Aleks Nikolich ’87Carlos A. Nocetti G ’74Susan C. Noe G ’92Teresa C. Nolet G ’79William H. Noon 2000Neal C. Nordstrom ’82George J. Normann ’83Judith K. Novacek ’78Elizabeth E. Nugent G ’97Walter Nummela G ’63Karen A. Nummy G ’81Henry J. Nusbaum G ’77Richard E. Nygren ’66Katherine N. Oates 2000Henry J. Oberson, Jr. G ’60Margaret M. O'Connor G ’82L.N. Odence ’53Stephen D. Offsey ’86Sherry A. Ohotnicky ’93Joel P. Okamoto ’82Katherine A. Oldham ’94Mark A. Oliveira G 2002Manuel P. Oliveria II G ’88Dale A. Olson ’83Gregory B. Olson G ’74Dexter A. Olsson ’57Solar C. Olugebefola ’99Stewart Ongchin G 2005P.I.K. Onorato G ’77William R. Opie G ’49Alex J. Otto G ’91Cleva W. Owyang-Gulgun ’92Albert E. Paladino, Jr. G ’62Robert D. Palazzolo G ’98Jennifer M.A. Palella ’84Satyavolu S. Papa Rao G ’96James Pappis G ’59Edward S. Park G 2004Jane Y. Park G 2003Miriam Park G 2000Robert I. Park ’88Sung-Bin Park ’90Woonsup Park G ’88Charles A. Parker G ’84Sidney J.S. Parry ’55Joseph B. Parse G ’85John M. Parsey, Jr. G ’82Kevin D. Pate ’85Satya R. Pati G ’67Neil E. Paton G ’69David T. Patten G ’76Hazelyn M. Patterson ’83Scott G. Paull ’82George W. Pearsall G ’61Eric M. Pearson ’80James R. Pearson G ’69Philip K. Pearson ’50Leander F. Pease III G ’63John F. Peck G ’63Richard W. Pekala G ’84Regis M.N. Pelloux G ’58Jon M. Peltier G ’87Nicole Pelton ’90Thomas A. Penn ’69Diego A. Penta ’96Roger C. Perkins G ’86

Nolan G. Perreira ’67James S. Perrin ’58Daniel J. Peters G ’89Sean F. Peterson ’94Jocelyn I. Petit-Sanders G ’80William T. Petuskey G ’77Vivek M. Phanse G 2000Karen G. Phelan G ’86Henry R. Piehler G ’67Howard M. Pielet G ’71Cyril M. Pierce G ’61William H. Pike ’65Alfonso Pinella G ’66David A. Pinsky G ’82Stewart B. Pinsof ’58Bruce A. Pint G ’92Ronald C. Pirek ’77Richard K. Pitler ’49Luis A. Pizano ’98Marlene Platero-AllRunner ’98Jerry D. Plunkett G ’61Richard L. Pober G ’71Jaroslav M.J. Polak ’57Richard F. Polich G ’65JoAnn R. Politano ’79Rakesh K. Popli G ’80Alan W. Postlethwaite G ’49Gordon W. Powell G ’55Roger Wayne Powell G ’74James D. Powers ’89Aaron R. Prazan ’98Paul K. Predecki G ’64Peter E. Price G ’58Arnold L. Prill G ’63Charles H. Prince ’54William R. Prindle G ’55Svante Prochazka G ’68John W. Prybylowski G ’86James W. Pugh G ’72John W. Putman G ’53Daniel T. Quillin ’89Charles E. Quintero ’83Michael A. Rabideau G ’81Henry J. Rack G ’68Livia M. Racz G ’93Anand Raghunathan G ’97James J. Rago, Jr. ’57David V. Ragone G ’53Krishna Rajan G ’78Robert N. Randall ’50Aaron M. Raphel G 2005Eugene J. Rapperport G ’55Gary C. Rauch G ’68Richard A. Rawe G ’58Ranjan Ray G ’69Dennis W. Readey G ’62Michael D. Rechtin G ’70John S. Reed G 2003Karl W. Reid G ’85Christine M. Reif ’86Maureen T.F. Reitman G ’93Alan L. Renninger G ’72Amy Austin Renshaw G ’89Kevin G. Ressler G ’96Aldo M. Reti G ’70Rhonda L. Reynolds ’87William H. Rhodes G ’65Carl R. Ribaudo G ’82Alice M. Ribbens ’89Christopher S. Rice G ’95John A. Rice G ’85David C. Rich G ’96Lee S. Richardson G ’56

Marc H. Richman G ’63Rodney G. Riek ’69Jennifer Rigney ’92Richard E. Riman G ’87Michael D. Rinaldi G ’71Tilghman Lee Rittenhouse

G ’99Jae-Sang Ro G ’91Martin D. Robbins G ’56William L. Robbins G ’72Beverly K. Roberts ’76Jennifer K. Robinson ’82Laura M. Robinson ’80McDonald Robinson G ’67Neil E. Rogen G ’57Peter T. Rogers ’82Roger M. Rogers ’58Carlos E. Roggero ’54Irwin B. Roll G ’58Glenn R. Romanoski G ’90Amilcar J. Romeo G ’56Amy B. Roschelle ’93Robert M. Rose G ’61Valarie Benezra Rosen G ’98Allan J. Rosenberg ’58Alan R. Rosenfield G ’59Marjorie L. Rosenthal ’98Alexana Roshko G ’87Robert B. Rosner G ’92Barry H. Rosof G ’68Robert L. Rothman ’64Charles A. Rowe ’59Thomas A. Rowe G ’67Elena Rozier ’82Edward L. Rubin G ’84Leonard R. Rubin G ’60Michael F. Rubner G ’86Derek P. Rucker ’92Diane F. Rucker ’92Robert C. Ruhl G ’67Joseph C. Runkle G ’78Cecily A. Ryan 2000Anil K. Sachdev G ’77Varadachari Sadagopan G ’65Edward M. Safran ’59Hilmi F. Sagoci ’40Norihisa Saito G ’85Vasilios S. Salapatas G ’66Tarik A. Saleh ’95Jack P. Salerno G ’83Srikanth B. Samavedam G ’98W. Wade Samec, Jr. ’95Benjamin R. Samuels G ’90K.K. Sankaran G ’78Catherine Marie Bambenek

Santin G 2002Chris H. Sarantos 2003Hisashi Sato G ’87Willard L. Sauer G ’86Elaine I. Savage ’71Robert E. Savage G ’49Siddhi Savetsila G ’47Howard T. Sawhill G ’85M.W. Saxman ’47Philip S. Schaffer G ’60Stacy E. Schalick ’89Thomas F. Schaub, Jr. G ’95Jack H. Schaum ’40George W. Scherer G ’74John R. Schiffhauer ’81Spencer A. Schilling ’44William F. Schilling G ’69Sara Schiveley G 2004

Steve C. Schiveley G 2004Hollie K. Schmidt G ’92Edward G. Schmit ’86Howard Schneider ’79Julia S. Schneider Johnson

G ’90Harold J. Schnitzer ’44Peter G. Schunemann G ’87Susan Schur G ’60Erika K. Schutte ’95Elliot M. Schwartz G ’95Patricia J. Schwartz ’89Lisa Anne Scoppettuolo 2002James J. Scutti G ’82Charles C. Seaton G ’71Leslie L. Seigle G ’52Michelle E. Seitz 2004Loriann S.K. Seluga 2000Steven C. Semken G ’89Dan Sempolinski G ’79Necdet Senturk G ’67Michele W. Sequeira G ’91Italo S. Servi G ’51Edwin R. Servis ’51Anant A. Setlur ’94Peter Sexton ’65Maurice E. Shank G ’49Ronald S. Shemenski G ’69Andrew M. Sherman G ’72William M. Sherry G ’78Daniel A. Shiau 2001Bruce M. Shields G ’52Robert W. Shields G ’59Ryoichi R. Shiono G ’89Richard T. Shoemaker ’65Robert D. Shull ’68Sidney Siegel ’43Will Siegfried ’79Emil G. Signes G ’64Scott A. Sikorski G ’94Eduardo A. Silva ’82Irving R. Silver ’56Donald J. Silversmith G ’69Harold E. Simmons ’47Richard P. Simmons ’53Richard A. Singer G ’92Sachchida N. Singh G ’87Shri N. Singh G ’69Court Skinner G ’65J. Morgan Slade G ’96Gerald D. Slawecki ’60Marko M.G. Slusarczuk G ’79Charles H. Smith G ’82Charles O. Smith G ’51David R. Smith ’79Gregory G. Smith ’70John H. Smith G ’64Margaret L. Smith ’79Marian Bamford Smith ’59Matthew F. Smith ’58Phillip Hartley Smith G ’52Samuel W. Smith G ’81Thomas W. Smith G ’80Perry R. Smoot ’54David B. Snow G ’71Bruce Sohn ’83Stuart Solomon ’53Jared L. Sommer G ’92John W. Song G ’86Philip P. Soo G 2000Carl D. Sorensen G ’85Thomas S. Sparks ’80Deborah-Ann C. Spence G ’96

David B. Spencer G ’71Francis X. Spinelli ’52Luciano Spiridigliozzi G ’92Stephen Spooner G ’65David F. Springsteen ’54Edward S. Sproles, Jr. G ’76Pradeep R. Sreekanthan G ’97George R. St Pierre G ’54Peter L. Standley ’88Charles O. Staples ’59Alfred B. Steck ’50Todd S. Stefanik G 2004Charles Stein G ’62Julie E. Stein ’93Morris A. Steinberg G ’48Edward T. Stephenson, Jr. G ’56G. Brian Stephenson G ’78James A. Stern ’42John A. Stern G ’41Tammy S. Stevens ’96Katharine Stohlman ’79Ronald E. Stoltz G ’74Peter R. Stone 2005Robert E. Storrs ’47Edward R. Stover G ’56William R. Stowell G ’70Richard W. Strachan G ’67Bruce P. Strauss G ’67Michael T. Strauss G ’85Anne Street ’69Stephen L. Strong G ’66Susan M. Stulz ’80Jonathan E. Suber ’87Edward C. Sullivan ’58Jason R. Sullivan ’93Paul W. Sullivan ’71Yusuf Sumartha G ’97Kristen A. Sunter 2004Alan W. Swanson G ’72Daniel J. Swanson ’80Allen I. Swartz G ’51Sharon T. Swede ’83Brad Sweeney G ’92Douglas J. Swenson ’87Mark F. Sylvester ’80Barrett L. Taft ’40Augustus O. Tai G ’91Yo Tajima G ’82Ken-Sue Tan G ’82Yuying Tang G ’94Benjamin A. Tao G ’96Peter Tarassoff G ’62Keith A. Taylor G ’85Martin A. Taylor ’83Maurice E. Taylor ’42Craig S. Tedmon, Jr. G ’64Patrick D. Tepesch G ’96David A. Thomas G ’58Nirmala P. Thomas ’88James T. Thompson, Jr. G ’76Joyce A. Thompson G ’80Rachel M. Thurston ’93Thierry N. Thys ’53Paul A. Tick G ’67Robert Tiernan G ’69John A. Timoshenko ’64Edmund Y. Ting G ’84Norman F. Tisdale, Jr. ’50Philip J. Tobin G ’68John T. Toland ’47Angela Tong 2005Richard C. Tonner ’48Ellen S. Tormey G ’82

Terry C. Totemeier ’91Roger E. Travis G ’63Paul L. Tremblay G ’83Daan Troost ’57Robert Lee Troup G ’68Julie A. Tsai G ’95Min-Hsiung Tsai G ’72Clarisse A. Tsang 2004Cornelia K. Tsang G 2001Chi-Yuan A. Tsao G ’90Helen E.A. Tudor G ’83Marvin M. Turkanis G ’55John C. Turn, Jr. G ’79Masaru K. Turu ’58Stuart Z. Uram G ’59Natasha C. Us G ’85Kristi L. Ushiro G ’94Johannes M. Uys G ’59Surekha Vajjhala G ’99Regina Valluzzi ’89Leo F.P. Uan Swam G ’73Jennifer M. Vandiver 2001Pamela Bowren Vandiver G ’85Matthew R. Vaneman ’97Thomas Vasilos G ’54Robert Owen Vegeler ’71Julio A. Vergara Aimone G ’88Richard P. Vinci ’88John M. Vitek G ’73Kim Marie Vo G ’99Alvin G. Waggoner ’42William J. Wagner ’61Anita K. Wahi ’84Robert H. Walat ’93Michael S. Walker ’61Edward M. Wallace G ’41John F. Wallace G ’53Jeremy C. Wallach G 2004John H. Walsh G ’55Robert A. Walsh ’60David M. Walter ’84William D. Walther G ’54Andrea S. Wang ’93Billie Wang 2000Christine A. Wang G ’84Hai-Tao Wang G ’78Lorraine C. Wang ’97Wego Wang G ’82Michael J. Wargo G ’82Allison S. Warren G ’90Thomas J. Warren ’83Stanley I. Warshaw G ’61Brian G. Warshawsky G ’98A. Robert Wasson G ’78John S. Waugh G ’60Watt W. Webb G ’55Sharon M. Weber ’88Wayne W. Webster G ’82Ernst B. Weglein G ’59Paul F. Weihrauch G ’69Fredric E. Weil G ’57Leslie S. Weinman G ’71Janine J. Weins G ’70Marlon K. Weiss ’80Michael G. Weiss ’65Stanley Weiss G ’65David O. Welch G ’62Jason Weller ’82John F. Wells, Jr. G ’63Fred E. Werner G ’56Eric Werwa G ’97Bruce W. Wessels G ’73Jack H. Westbrook G ’49

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On Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, 2006, the MIT

Alumni Association will host a Graduate Alumni

Convocation and Reunion on the MIT campus. The event

will reach out to all MIT graduate alumni (those who went

to grad school at MIT) worldwide. Well over 300 attendees

are expected at this important weekend event, which will

bring together graduate alumni and members of the MIT

community for a celebration and exploration of the many

ways in which MIT and its alumni impact the world as lead-

ers and innovators.

The Convocation and Reunion will begin on Friday with

events in the academic departments, centers, and activity

areas and a special student/alumni reception. On Saturday,

President Susan Hockfield and Dean for Graduate Students,

Isaac Colbert, will make remarks, followed by a panel of pro-

fessors and students discussing their interdisciplinary

research. The keynote address will take place during lunch,

the afternoon breakout sessions will explore alumni leader-

ship in a variety of sectors, and the weekend will conclude

with a closing reception. For additional details, please visit

the web site for the event at: http://alum.mit.edu/gacr.

All alumni attending reunions or commencement exercises

are invited to join us at the annual DMSE commencement

luncheon. This event has traditionally been a wonderful time

for graduating students and their families to celebrate with

DMSE faculty, staff, and current students. In recent years,

alumni attending their reunions have stopped by to catch up

with old friends and meet the latest members of the materi-

als science community. More details will be available later.

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