1. Professor Jagdish (Jay) Narayan North Carolina State University The 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award Working Experience 2002- The John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor 2007- ORNL Distinguished Visiting Scientist 1990- NCSU Distinguished University Professor ( Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics) and Director of Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures 1990-92 National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research, Director 1984- North Carolina State University, Professor 1984-86 Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, Director 1972-84 Oak Ridge National Lab., Senior Scientist and Leader of Thin Film and Electron Microscopy Group 1971-72 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. 2011 Spring MRS for Narayan Symposium Dr. Narayan has graduated more than 57 Ph.D. and M.S. students during his 30 years of teaching at NCSU. Many of them are in academia and industries around the world… Honors and Awards Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize Fellow National Academy of Sciences, India Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences Inaugural MRS Fellow Edward DeMille Campbell Lecture and Prize ASM Gold Medal TMS Life Member and Fellow APS Life Member and Fellow ASM-International Fellow AAAS Fellow US DOE Outstanding Research Award Three IR-100 Awards: 1979, 1981, 1983 Honorary Member and Fellow MRS-I Fellow Bohmische Physical Society Distinguished Alumnus Award (IIT/K) NSF Distinguished Service Award and Director, Division of Materials Research (1990-92) The John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor and ORNL Distinguished Visiting Scientist Dr. A. Chugh Intel Corp. Dr. J. Haverkamp Novellus Dr. A. Sharma Intel Corp. Dr. A. Tiwari University of Utah Dr. T. Rawdanowicz NCSU Dr. C. Jin NCSU Dr. Q. Wei UNC Charlotte Dr. R. K. Singh University of Florida Dr. H. Wang Texas A&M University Dr. X. Zhang Texas A&M University Dr. A. Gupta Intel Corp. Dr. H. Zhou ORNL Dr. T. K. Nath Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India And appreciations from all his former graduates… Drs. Xinghang Zhang and Narayan in 2001 Drs. Haiyan Wang, Narayan and Honghui Zhou in 2004 Drs. Hugh Porter, Chunming Jin, Wang, Narayan, and Gupta, in 2002 Drs. Qiuming Wei and Narayan in 1998 Drs. Haiyan Wang and Narayan in 2002 Dr. S. Mal Intel Corp. Dr. T. Dutta Intel Corp. Dr. R. Aggrawal Intel Corp. Dr. P. Pant Intel Corp. Dr. S. Ramachandran Intel Corp. Dr. G. Trichy Intel Corp. Dr. V. Bhosle Intel Corp. Dr. D. Chakraborti Intel Corp. Dr. S. Sharan Intel Corp. Dr. P. Tiwari Intel Corp. Dr. H. Yang Novellus Dr. W. Wei NASA Dr. M. Borek Raytheon Dr. R. Chowdhary Texas Instrument Dr. K. Dovidenko SUNY Dr. R. Kalyanraman U of Tennessee Dr. D. E. Moxy NC A&T Dr. R. Vaidyanathan ACR Dr. Q. Wei Johns Hopkins U Dr. T. Zheleva ARL Dr. A. Rengan Ohio University Dr. N. Biunno Zymet Dr. H. Porter Intel Corp. Dr. A. Kumar USF Dr. J. Park Temple U Dr. A. R. Srivatsa KLA Tencor Dr. H. Wu AMD Dr. V. P. Godbole University of Pune, India Dr. D. Kumar NC A&T Dr. A. Kvit NCSU Dr. S. Okytyabrsky SUNY Dr. R. D. Vispute University of Maryland Dr. N. Sudhakar NCSU Dr. S. M. Kanetkar University of Pune, India Dr. L. Ganapathi RTI Dr. Y. Yamagata kumamoto university, Japan Dr. M. Ichimura Nagoya Inst Tech, Japan Dr. N. M. Ravindra NJIT Dr. C. Lee NC A&T Dr. R. Vaidyanathan OSU