The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL),located on the campus of Michigan State University was a rare isotope research facility in the United States. Established in 1963,the cyclotron laboratory has been succeeded by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams,a linear accelerator providing beam to the same detector halls.
Eugene Howard Spafford,known as Spaf,is an American professor of computer science at Purdue University and a computer security expert.
Uma Chowdhry was an American chemist whose career was spent in research and management positions with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. She specialized in the science of ceramic materials,including catalysts,proton conductors,superconductors and ceramic packaging for microelectronics.
Transformative research is a term that became increasingly common within the science policy community in the 2000s for research that shifts or breaks existing scientific paradigms. The idea has its provenance in Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions,where one scientific paradigm is overturned for another. Classic examples are the Copernican Revolution,Albert Einstein's theories,the work of Watson and Crick,and plate tectonics theory.
Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman was one of India's pre-eminent metallurgists and materials scientists.
S. Shankar Sastry is the founding chancellor of the Plaksha University,Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California,Berkeley.
Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer,materials scientist,and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama,where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017. Between 2018 and 2022,he was the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU),where he was also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor.
Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo. He leads the Laboratory for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials &Devices. He is also Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Plastics Recycling Research &Innovation,an externally funded center with initial funding of $4.5M for three years at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the founding director of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo,New York and served as director from 2015-2021. RENEW is an internally funded research institute at SUNY-Buffalo. For his contributions to UB,in 2019,he was awarded the University at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo President's Medal,which recognizes “outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements,humanitarian acts,contributions of time or treasure,exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.”This is one of the highest recognitions given at the university.
Arati Prabhakar is an American engineer and public official. Since October 3,2022,she has served as the 12th director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Science Advisor to the President.
Upadrasta Ramamurty is the President's Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering &Materials Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU),Singapore. Prior to joining NTU,he was a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),Bangalore,India,from 2000 to 2018.
Walter R. Hibbard Jr was an American metallurgist,a distinguished professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the 11th director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in President Johnson's administration.
Chandrathil Gouri Krishnadas Nair is an Indian technocrat,teacher and metallurgical scientist known for his contributions in the field of aeronautical metallurgy. Dr Nair was given the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India for his contributions to science and technology in 2001.
Wojciech Szpankowski is the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his work in analytic combinatorics,analysis of algorithms and analytic information theory. He is the director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information.
Bhakta B. Rath is an Indian American material physicist and head of the Materials Science and Component Technology of the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL),the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. He is the chief administrative officer for program planning,interdisciplinary coordination,supervision and control of research and is the associate director of research for Materials Science and Component Technology at NRL.
Debasish "Deba" Dutta is an American mechanical engineer and higher education administrator. He is currently senior advisor to the president of the University of Illinois System and,effective February 17,2024,is serving as interim executive director of the Discovery Partners Institute.
Deborah J. Jackson is an American physicist and Program Manager at the National Science Foundation,and a Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists. She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. She is an expert on "electromagnetic phenomena" with a research and development career that spans the full range of the electromagnetic spectrum from materials studies using hard x-ray wavelengths,to nonlinear optics and spectroscopy in the near-infrared,to the fielding of radio frequency instrumentation on deep space missions such as Cassini and Mars Observer.
Tresa M. Pollock is ALCOA Distinguished Professor of Materials at the Department of Materials,University of California,Santa Barbara. Pollock is internationally recognised in the development of new materials systems,including alloys,3D characterisation of structure and properties,and development of integrated computation materials engineering.
Kaushik Roy is a researcher and educator in the area of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann,Jr.,Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Roy is the Director of the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC).
Surendra Poonamchand Shah is an engineer and emeritus professor,currently at The University of Texas at Arlington,USA. Shah started his academic career and has worked in fracture,fiber reinforced composites,non-destructive evaluation,transport properties,processing,rheology,nanotechnology,and use of solid waste materials. His contributions to the fields of civil engineering and materials science have been recognized worldwide through membership and leadership in various scientific societies and universities.
