Dr. Lavernia Awarded the TMS Bruce Chalmers Award

Dr. Lavernia has just been named the awardee of the 2024 TMS Bruce Chalmers Award. This award, presented by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the science and/or technology of materials processing and includes a life-membership to TMS.

Dr. Lavernia stated, “I am surprised and humbled by this recognition. I want to thank the many students and colleagues who have enriched my personal and professional life and contributed to this award. I am also grateful to TMS, a society I joined in 1982 as a graduate student.”

TMS cites that Dr. Lavernia was chosen as the recipient for  “innovative and pioneering studies on the fundamental mechanisms that govern the interrelationship between processing, microstructure, and mechanical behavior of structural materials.”

TMS Bruce Chalmers award & announcement.