Dr. Theresa (Guiton) Kotanchek, Ph.D. 91, Materials Science M.S., B.S., Ceramic Science

Dr. Theresa (Guiton) Kotanchek has been selected to receive the 2006 GEMS Alumni Achievement Award. This is the highest recognition given by GEMS, the Alumni Society of Penn States College of Earth...

Dr. Jeffrey J. Swab, '83 Ceramics Science & Engineering

Dr. Jeffrey J. Swab, Ceramic Research Engineer with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), has been selected as the ARL Visiting Scientist Chair at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY for the 2006-2007 academic...

Thomas M. Yonushonis Receives Julius P. Perr Innovation Award

For the second time in 24 years with Cummins Inc., Thomas M. Yonushonis ’74 BS, ’76 MS, Ceramics Science & Engineering, the firm’s director of research and technology, has captured his...

Thomas O. Mason, '74 Ceramics

Thomas was presented with Edward C. Henry Award at the 109th Annual ACerS Meeting at Detroit, Michigan for writing a winning paper "Synthesis and Electrical Characterization of the Polymorphic Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystalline Powers", Journal...

David A. Payne, PhD '73 SSS

David was presented the Sosman Memorial Lecture at the 109th Annual ACerS Meeting at Detroit, Michigan. David is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Congratulations!

David W. Richerson, '69 Ceramics

David was presented with the Authur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecture at the 109th Annual ACerS meeting in Detroit, Michigan. David is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Utah, and President...

Robert D. Yeager, '58 Metals, '66 JD DSL

Robert is the founder of Pittsburgh Youth Golf Foundation, received Distinguished Service Award, Tri-State Section, PGA. Congratulations Robert.

Richard F. Spurck, Ceramics 1943

Richard is the recipient of the Who's Who in America, an inclusion which is limited to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their fields of endeavor and who have, thereby, contributed significantly to the betterment of...

Robert Kumpf, Polymer Science 1988

Dr. Robert Kumpf (Ph.D. '88, M.S, B.S., Polymer Science), Vice President, Future Business Americas, Bayer Material Science, has been selected to receive the 2005 GEMS Alumni Achievement Award. This is the highest recognition given by GEMS, the...

Michael Blaszkiewicz, NucE MS, 1989, Materials PhD, 1994

Michael, a senior scientist at Bayer Material Science LLC in Pittsburgh, PA was a recipient of Bayer's first Annual Science and Technology Award for his team's work on developing an improved method of measuring hydrogen...

The Materials Science and Engineering Department sponsored a Penn State reception in conjunction with the Materials Science and Technology Exposition on October 19, 2010 in Houston, TX.  Approximately sixty alumni, students, faculty and friends attended this event.

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A memorial service will be held for Professor Rustum Roy on Monday, October 4, 2010 from 12 nooon to 3:p.m. at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center (Worship Hall) on Penn State's University Park Campus. A reception will follow in the Center from 3:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m.  Memorial contributions...

2010 EMS Graduate Student Poster Session Winners
It is with great pleasure that the Office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research and the EMS Graduate Student Council announce the 2010 EMS Graduate Student Poster Session Winners.  Congratulations to David Hartwich...

Congratulations to Ruth Ann Wood, '87 & '90 Ceramic Science on being named the President of the Graduations of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Board of Directors.  GEMS is comprised of 16 members (15 person plus immediate past president). In 1994, the founding...

The Pennsylvania State University and the International Commission on Glass announce the presentation of the 2010 Woldemar A. Weyl International Glass Science Award to Dr. John Mauro of the Science and Technology Division, Corning Incorporated, Corning, N.Y.  The Weyl Award is presented...