MRS Press Release

Newswise — Materials Research Society Announces Vice President and New Board Members for 2021

The Materials Research Society (MRS) is pleased to announce the Vice President/President Elect and new Board Members for 2021, elected by the Society's global membership of over 14,000.

Carolyn R. Duran, Intel Corporation, will serve as MRS Vice President beginning January 1, 2021. She will lead the Board of Directors as MRS President in 2022, and finish her three-year term as Immediate Past President in 2023. More information on Duran can be found at mrs.org/elections/carolyn-duran. 

The election also brings four new members to the MRS Board of Directors, who will each serve three-year terms beginning January 1, 2021. They are:

• Ilke Arslan, Argonne National Laboratory
• Kyoung-Shin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Baratunde Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology, Carbice Corporation
• Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute

The MRS Board of Directors is the governing body of the Materials Research Society and is responsible for setting the strategic direction of major Society activities.