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MRS reports election results for 2015

www.mrs.org/governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2014

Abstract

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News
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

Members of the Materials Research Society have elected a vice president (who will serve as president in 2016) and five directors to join the 2015 MRS Board of Directors. The Board is composed of the officers and 12 to 21 directors, established by Board resolution.

The officers of the Society are the president (who serves as chair of the Board), the vice president (who is also the president-elect), the secretary, the treas-urer (a position appointed by the Board of Directors), and the immediate past president. Terms of office expire at the end of the year indicated in parentheses. The asterisk (*) designates those who are newly elected. The annual election ended September 19, 2014.

The Board of Directors is organized into the following governing committees: Audit, External Relations, Finance, Governance, Nominating, Operational Oversight, and Planning. Chairs and Members of the committees are either designated by policy or are appointed by the president.

2015 MRS Officers

President

Oliver Kraft

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Immediate Past President

Tia Benson Tolle

The Boeing Company

Vice President (President-Elect)

* Kristi Anseth

University of Colorado Boulder

Secretary

Sean J. Hearne

Sandia National Laboratories

Treasurer

Michael R. Fitzsimmons

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Executive Director

Todd M. Osman

Materials Research Society

2015 Board of Directors

* Charles T. Black (2017)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Alexandra Boltasseva (2016)

Purdue University

C. Jeffrey Brinker (2016)

Sandia National Laboratories and University of New Mexico

David Cahen (2015)

Weizmann Institute of Science

Stephen J. Eglash (2015)

Stanford University

Sossina M. Haile (2015)

California Institute of Technology

Andrea M. Hodge (2015)

University of Southern California

Hideo Hosono (2016)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

* Karen L. Kavanagh (2017)

Simon Fraser University

Fiona C. Meldrum (2015)

University of Leeds

Kornelius Nielsch (2016)

University of Hamburg

* Christine Ortiz (2017)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

* Sabrina Sartori (2017)

University of Oslo

Eric A. Stach (2015)

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Loucas Tsakalakos (2016)

General Electric–Global Research Center

* Anke Weidenkaff (2017)

University of Stuttgart