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Robert B. Waller, Jr., CAE, president and chief operating officer of Association Headquarters in Mt. Laurel, N.J., an association management company providing services for voluntary membership organizations, has joined the ASTM International Board of Directors for the term 2005 to 2007. Waller lives in Medford, N.J. Wallers professional roles also include president of the Juvenile Products…
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N. David Smith, chief deputy commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in Raleigh, has begun a one-year term as chairman of the ASTM International Board of Directors. Smith is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department. The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is responsible for a broad range of issues involving the environment…
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ASTM International announces that Julie H. Kilgore, principal and managing partner at Wasatch Environmental in Salt Lake City, Utah, has become a member of the ASTM International Board of Directors for 2005 to 2007. Kilgore, who lives in Sandy, Utah, joined ASTM International and Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management, and Corrective Action in 1994 and is the chair of…
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The 2004 ASTM International Harold DeWitt Smith Memorial Award honors the work of Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Ph.D., in the field of textile and fiber materials science and engineering. Pourdeyhimi, who lives in Cary, N.C., is the Klopman Distinguished Professor of Textile Materials and Associate Dean for Industry Research and Extension, and Director, Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center at the College…
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ASTM International Committee E42 on Surface Analysis has approved a new standard, E 2382, Guide to Scanner and Tip Related Artifacts in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy. The guide, under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E42.14 on STM/AFM, was proposed in order to assist new scanning probe microscopy users with more rapid recognition and assessment of artifacts in imaging…
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The Fatigue Achievement Award has been given to Norman E. Dowling, Ph.D., of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., by ASTM International Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture. Dowling, who is a professor in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, and also in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, has been recognized for his contributions…
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George E. Totten, Ph.D., president of G. E. Totten and Associates, LLC, in Seattle, Wash., where he also resides, has received the 2004 Sydney D. Andrews Scroll of Achievement for outstanding achievement in the field of petroleum products and lubricants. ASTM International Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants has honored Totten for "his many contributions to advancing the aims of…
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Carroll D. Davis, section head of analytical chemistry for the Alcoa Technical Center in Alcoa Center, Pa., was honored with the ASTM International Ted Linde Leadership Award in recognition of his leadership skills and especially for an exemplary job as main committee chairman, a post he has filled since 2000. Davis received the award from ASTM Committee E01 on Analytical Chemistry for Metals,…
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ASTM International Subcommittee E06.77 on High Rise Building External Evacuation Devices initiated activity at the October 2004 meeting of Committee E06 on Performance of Buildings, by establishing the following three task groups: Platform Devices - Development of specifications for high-rise external platform devices for evacuation of persons when the primary evacuation routes to a safe zone are…
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ASTM International Subcommittee E54.03 on Decontamination has entered a rapid standards development effort since meeting in Kansas City in June 2004. The subcommittee benefited greatly during the meeting from the participation of a broad spectrum of stakeholders that represented private industry, military entities, government agencies (for example, Environmental Protection Agency and Department…