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TMS Young Leaders: Professional Development Award

The TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award was created to enhance the professional development of dynamic young people from TMS’ five technical divisions by helping them participate in Society activities, become better acquainted, make important contacts with TMS leaders, and network with prominent Society members.

YOUNG LEADER AWARD WINNERS

For 2012, with partial funding from the AIME Endowment Fund, individuals were selected by the Society's divisions as listed below.

Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division (EMPMD)
• Chao-Hong Wang, National Chung Cheng University
• Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, University of Massachusetts

Extraction & Processing Division (EPD)
• John Carpenter, Los Alamos National Lab
• Soobhankar Pati, Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies

Light Metals Division (LMD)
• Qizhen (Katherine) Li, University of Nevada
• Pretesh Patel, Light Metals Research Center - University of Auckland

Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD)
• Nathan Mara, Los Alamos National Lab
• Kantesh Balani, Indian Institute of Technology

Structural Materials Division (SMD)
• Nima Rahbar, University of Massachusetts
• Clarissa Yablinsky, University of Wisconsin

Read summaries submitted by former Young Leader Award Winners about their experiences by visiting the Young Leaders Summaries page.

AWARD BENEFITS

Each Young Leader Award recipient receives the following:

• TMS membership for the year of the award.
• Sponsorship to attend the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition for the year of the award.
• Complimentary registration to the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition.
• Accommodations at a hotel within the TMS room block.
• $500 travel allowance toward airfare and round-trip transportation from airport to hotel.
• Tickets to conference social functions.
• Admission to appropriate division luncheon and council meetings at the TMS Annual Meeting.
• Admission to the Young Leaders Tutorial Luncheon.
• Admission to technical and administrative committee meetings at the TMS Annual Meeting.
• Invitation to attend the TMS board of directors meeting as an observer.

For information on applying for the Young Leader Professional Development Award, complete and submit the application form (PDF).

The deadline to apply is September 15.

JOIN THE YOUNG LEADERS

For more information on becoming a TMS Young Leader, complete the Young Leaders Participation Form or contact TMS Member Services at members@tms.org.