Terry Aselage, retired as the director of the Materials, Physical, and Chemical Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories, has received the Materials Research Society (MRS) Woody White Service Award “for his focused leadership and vision at the helm of the MRS Meetings Committee, moving the Society toward a more agile, responsive and inclusive community. Aselage also worked to create a stronger partnership between Meetings and Publications, driving the Society forward with more consistent, yet fresh approaches.”
While Aselage served as director at Sandia, he led an organization of more than 400 people with broad mission impact, from basic research at the forefront of materials science to materials engineering with enduring impact on Sandia’s mission areas. Prior to his transition to management, his research at Sandia focused on the high-temperature synthesis of a variety of electronic materials, including boron-rich solids and cuprate superconductors; determining their crystal structures using a wide range of experimental probes; and meas-uring and interpreting their anomalous electronic and thermal-transport properties over a wide range of temperatures.
Aselage received a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, and a PhD degree in chemical engineering in 1984 from the University of Florida (UF). He serves as a Sandia campus executive for UF and participates on its external advisory boards for the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Departments. He has also served on advisory panels for North Carolina State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and The University of New Mexico.
The MRS Woody White Service Award honors outstanding individuals who have embodied the Materials Research Society’s Mission, Vision, and Values for an egalitarian interdisciplinary community advancing materials science and technology to improve the quality of life. It may be given in recognition of long-term, impactful service to the Society, as well as for special projects/programs that significantly impacted the Society.
