AVS Taps Bonnell as New President-Elect

Members of AVS recently chose Dawn A. Bonnell as their new president-elect. She took office on the first of this month, succeeding Rudolf Ludeke. Bonnell will become president of the society in 2003.

“AVS has demonstrated a capability to evolve exciting new topical areas while maintaining core strengths and a connection to industry that is unique among technical societies,” says Bonnell. She adds, “One consequence is that the society faces the dynamic opportunities and challenges associated with these fields. During my term I will focus on fostering this aspect of our society as we consider the increasing opportunities of internationalization.” After earning her PhD in materials science from the University of Michigan in 1986, Bonnell was a Ful-bright scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany, and was a postdoctoral associate at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Currently, she is director of the Center for Science and Engineering of Nanoscale Systems and a professor of materials science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on atomistic processes at interfaces of complex materials and proximal probes.

In other AVS election results, John W. Coburn (University of California, Berkeley) takes office as treasurer and Joseph E. Greene (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) takes office as secretary, both for one-year terms. Starting three-year terms on the AVS board of directors are Charles Bryson (Surface/Interface Inc in Sunnyvale, California) and Linda Cecchi (Sandia National Laboratories). Elected as trustees of AVS for three-year terms are Robert J. Hamers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and John H. Weaver (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).