This story appears in The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's student newsletter Professional Preface, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 2.

TMS Offers New Scholarship Opportunities

The TMS technical divisions are now offering travel scholarships to help defray travel expenses for students attending the TMS Fall and Annual Meetings.

The following students each received a $500 travel scholarship to attend the TMS Fall Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, courtesy of three of the TMS technical divisions (no applications were received for the Extraction & Processing and Light Metals Divisions).

Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division

• Holli Horton, Norfolk State University
• John Jungk, Washington State University

Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division

• Tony Cimbalik, Michigan Technological University
• Varshni Singh, Louisiana State University

SMD Division

• Mahmoud Abd Elhamid, Pennsylvania State University
• Tia Carter, Norfolk State University
• David Eakin, Washington State University
• Javaid Iqbal Qazi, University of Idaho
• Gabriel Kuhn, Washington State University

To apply for travel assistance for the 2000 TMS Annual Meeting, send a letter of application stating why you wish to attend the meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Specify the TMS division in whose technical programming you are most interested and include complete information on how you can be contacted. You must be a TMS student member to qualify. If we cannot contact you, your award will be forfeited.

Applications are available through TMS OnLine at www.tms.org/Students/TravelScholarships.html. Submit the completed application by December 15, 1999, to:

TMS Student Travel Scholarships
Attention: Tara Braden
184 Thorn Hill Road
Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086-7528
Fax (724) 776-3770
E-mail: tbraden@tms.org