Newswise — Award recipients representing the past year’s outstanding members of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) will be honored at the TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Seattle, which convenes Feb. 14-18.

Members were selected for both society and technical division awards. Honorees will receive their accolades at the TMS-AIME Annual Awards Banquet on Feb. 16. The recipients are as follows:

Society Awards

Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award –Brajendra Mishra, Colorado School of Mines.AIME Honorary Membership – Y. Austin Chang, University of Wisconsin – Madison.Application to Practice Award – Caroll Handwerker, Purdue University, Indiana.Bruce Chalmers Award – Cristoph Beckermann, University of Iowa.Champion H. Mathewson Award – Guillaume Reinhart, Université Paul Cézanne.Early Career Faculty Fellow Award – Winner – Xingbo Liu, West Virginia University.Early Career Faculty Fellow Award – Honorable Mention – Vikas Tomar, Purdue University.Early Career Faculty Fellow Award – Honorable Mention – Diana Lados, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts.Educator Award – John Moore, Colorado School of Mines.Fellow Award – Academia – Jeff DeHosson, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and James W. Evans, Wireless Industrial Technologies, California.Fellow Award - Government Labs – Easo P. George, Oak Ridge National Lab, Tennessee.Fellow Award - Government Labs – Richard Hoagland, (Retired) Los Alamos National Lab, New Mexico. Fellow Award – Industry – Philip J. Mackey, Xstrata Process, Canada.Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award – Robert Ritchie, University of California John Bardeen Award – Eugene Haller, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California.Leadership Award – Donald Gubser, Naval Research Laboratory, CaliforniaRobert Lansing Hardy Award – Diana Lados, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,Massachusetts.William Hume-Rothery Award – Didier DeFontaine, University of CaliforniaShri Ram Arora Award – Apu Sarkar, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India. Vittorio de Nora Prize for Environmental Improvements in Metallurgical Industries ¬– Zeljka Pokrajcic, WorleyParsons, Australia.

Division Awards

Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD) Distinguished Scientist/Engineer – Brent Fultz, California Institute of Technology.EMPMD Distinguished Service – Elizabeth Holm, Sandia National Labs, California. Extraction & Processing Division (EPD) Distinguished Lecturer – J. Brent Hiskey, University of Arizona.EPD Distinguished Service – Patrick Taylor , Colorado School of Mines.EPD Science – Peter C. Hayes, Hector Henao, Evgueni Jak, University of Queensland, Australia.EPD Technology – Gabriel Riveros, Universided de Chile.Light Metals Division (LMD) Distinguished Service – Neale Neelameggham, US Magnesium LLC , Utah.LMD Technology – Douglas Granger, Gras Inc., Pennsylvania.LMD Magnesium Best Paper – Application ¬ – Onuralp Yucel, Istanbul Technical University; Ozgur Duygulu, Selda Ucuncuoglu, and Gizem Oktay, TUBITAK Marmara Research Center; Ali Arslan Kaya, Mugla University.LMD Magnesium Best Paper - Fundamental Research – Alok Singh, Julian M. Rosalie, Somekawa Hidetoshi, Toshiji Mukai, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan.LMD Magnesium Student Paper – Kevin McLean, University of Toronto, Canada; James Pettingill, Queen's University, Canada; Boyd Davis, Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc., CanadaLight Metals Award – Anthimos Xenidis, Charalabos Zografidis, Ioannis Kotsis, National Technical University of Athens: Dmitrios Boufounos, Aluminium of Greece. Light Metals Subject Award – Reduction ¬– Patrice Doiron, and Stephen Lindsay, Alcoa Inc., CanadaLight Metals Subject Award - Electrode Technology for Aluminum Production – Jeremie Lhuissier, Lailah Bezamanifary, Magali Gendre, Marie-Josee Chollier, Rio Tinto Alcan. Light Metals Subject Award - Warren Peterson Cast Shop for Aluminum Production – Marc Badowski, Werner Droste, Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH.Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Distinguished Service – John Smugeresky, Sandia National Labs, California.MPMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer – Yuntian Zhu – North Carolina State University. Structural Materials Division (SMD) Distinguished Scientist/Engineer – Reinhold Dauskardt, Stanford University, California.SMD Distinguished Service – Dallis Hardwick, U.S. Air Force.

Photos and award details are available by contacting Patti Dobranski, TMS communication specialist, at [email protected].

For more information about TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, visit www.tms.org/TMS2010.

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