Department alumnus Lynn A. Boatner is the Section Head for Ceramics and Interfaces at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and he leads their Novel Materials Group. He has received several honors recently for his work in materials science, ceramics, and metallurgy. In 1997, he received both the Elegant Work Prize of the UK Institute of Materials and a Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology. In 1998 he became a Fellow of both the UK Institute of Materials and the American Ceramic Society, he was a recipient of a First-in-Class Award in both the American Ceramic Society's Ceramographic Competition and in the American Society of Metallurgy (ASM) International Competition, and he was elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He recently became Chair of the American Physical Society (APS) International Scientific Affairs Committee.

Dr. Boatner is a Fellow of the APS, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of ASM International. He has authored or co-authored more than 360 research articles and holds 12 patents. His past awards and honors include R&D 100 Awards in 1982, 1985, and 1996; a DOE Research Competition Award in 1984; and the Jacquet-Lucas Award of the ASM International in 1988. In 1985, Science Digest recognized him as one of their Top 100 Innovators. He has served as the organizer, chair, or proceedings editor of many international conferences and as an officer, executive committee member, or committee chair for the Materials Research Society, the APS, and ASM International. He is Review Editor of the Journal of Materials Research and is an Associate Editor of Optical Materials. He was named an Oak Ridge National Laboratory Corporate Fellow in 1993.

Dr. Boatner's research has included a range of solid state and materials science problems. His recent activities have concerned the development and characterization of "smart" surfaces and phosphate glasses, the application of resonance techniques to study textured ceramics, the development of preferred orientations in ceramic microstructures using nanophase particles, and the application of stainless steel single crystals to investigations of the physics of solidification.

Dr. Boatner received his BS (1960) and MS (1961) from TTU. He received the PhD from Vanderbilt in 1968. In 1989, he received our Distinguished Alumnus Award. His outstanding career accomplishments make it clear that he was highly deserving of this honor!

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