Biography: The TMS Foundation proudly announces that Anandh Subramaniam from Bangalore, India, has been selected to receive the Shri Ram Arora International Award for 2001. This award is in its second year and has been made possible by a grant from the Dr. Om Arora family. In 1998 the Arora family decided to create this award to reward individuals that share their father's dedication to continual learning and academic challenge.

This year, Mr. Subramaniam has demonstrated through his accomplishments that he is dedicated to continuing education and development in his technical field of metallurgy. Mr. Subramaniam began his career in metallurgy at I.I.T. Madras and earned his B. Tech. degree in 1991. After receiving his B. Tech. Degree he earned his M.E. in metallurgy in 1995 from I.I.Sc Bangalore and has submitted his doctoral thesis to I.I.Sc Bangalore.

In addition to earning advanced degrees while remaining ranked in the top ten of his class, he has earned an Academic Excellence Award in 1997, Young Research Award in 1998, CSIR (SRF, 1996-99), and ranked 22nd in a physics talent test in 1986. Mr. Subramaniam intends to use the awarded funds to continue his research at I.I.Sc. Bangalore, Metallurgy Department. Mr. Subramaniam's main interest is in the area of Mg-base alloys and how they form a variety of structures including stable and metastable crystalline, stable and metastable quasitcrystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous phases.