Welcome to the Materials Research Society’s Media Center. MRS encourages coverage of its technical meetings, exhibits and other Society events and activities by the scientific and general news media. Our goal—to provide members of the media with news and information for dissemination to the scientific community and general public toward fostering appreciation for and understanding of the contributions and importance of materials research and development. Our most recent press releases are listed below.
May 7,
2013The 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.
Read More » April 2,
2013The 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.
Read More » March 28,
2013The 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.”
Read More » March 27,
2013MRS'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."
Read More » March 18,
2013The 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.
Read More » March 13,
2013MRS 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.
Read More » March 7,
2013MRS'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."
Read More » February 27,
2013The 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 ®).
Read More » November 14,
2012The Materials Research Society (MRS) proudly announces the Materials Research Society Foundation. Unique in many ways, the Materials Research Society Foundation does not have an independent mission. Instead, the goal is to advance the MRS mission to promote communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research to improve the quality of life.
Read More » October 22,
2012The Materials Research Society (MRS) will present its highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, to Stuart S.P. Parkin, IBM Fellow, Manager of the Magnetoelectronics Group, and Director of the IBM-Stanford Spintronic Science and Applications Center (SpinAps) at IBM Almaden Research Center. The Von Hippel Award is given annually to an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary research on materials.
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