Fall Awards
Award
Nomination Deadline*
The Von Hippel Award, the Materials Research Society's highest honor, recognizes those qualities most prized by materials scientists and engineers—brilliance and originality of intellect, combined with vision that transcends the boundaries of conventional scientific disciplines
The David Turnbull Lectureship is awarded to recognize the career contribution of a scientist to fundamental understanding of the science of materials through experimental and/or theoretical research.
The MRS Medal recognizes an exceptional achievement in materials research in the past ten years. A medal will be awarded for a major advance or cluster of closely related advances in any materials-related field of research.
The Materials Theory Award recognizes exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials.
The Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
This honor recognizes significant novel contributions to materials science by an early-career researcher at the onset of his/her career.
MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy
The MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy recognizes a student, postdoc or other early-career professional for the development of novel sustainable solutions for the realization of renewable sources of energy.
MRS Graduate Student Awards honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. The 2024 Fall Meeting Graduate Student Award application submission site (gsa.mrs.org) will open on June 1.
The MRS Woody White Service Award is an award which recognizes a volunteer who has made extraordinary contributions of time and effort to the success of the society.
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