Clive Clayton:
Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (2004)
       
Dick Gambino:        
National Academy of Engineering, 2004
Winner of 1995 National Medal of Technology 
Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996
    
Herb Herman: 
ASM International - Fellow (1988)
American Ceramics Society - Fellow (1991)

Franco Jona:     
Surface Structure Prize (2002)
Fellow of the American Physical Society

Miriam Rafailovich: 
Fellow of the American Physical Society

Sanjay Sampath:
Fellow of the American Society of Metals

A Distinguished Faculty

The Department of Materials Science & Engineering boasts a distinguished and hard-working faculty. All of the professors have research support from national or international agencies. Many have been honored with fellowships from professional and learned societies such as ASM International (Herman, Sampath); National Academy of Engineering (Gambino); the American Ceramic Society (Herman); the American Physical Society (Jona, Rafailovich); the the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Gambino).

The Department takes pride in the activity of its faculty in professional affairs, with many members serving on national committees, boards of trustees and councils.

The faculty are also actively involved in editing journals and books, and many hold positions on editorial boards. Professor Herman was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Science & Engineering A, from 1983 until 1997. Professor Franco Jona's book on Ferroelectric Crystals has been declared a "citation classic", in view of the enormous number of researchers who have referred to it, in their own published work. IEEE Press has released "Magneto-Optic Recording Materials", coedited by Prof. Richard Gambino and Takao Suzuki One of our former researchers, Dr. Anthony Begley is the lead Associate Editor for Physical Review B.

In 1995, Professor Richard Gambino was awarded the National Medal of Technology, in a ceremony at the White House. Only one such award is made each year and Prof. Gambino earned it with two colleagues from his former employer, IBM, for their joint work in developing magneto-optical data storage materials and technology.

Both Professors Herman and Jona hold the rank of Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook. Additionally, Professor Jona has the distinguished record of having solved the most number of surface structures.

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