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After nearly a year of behind-the-scenes planning, the American Ceramic Society just announced that it is launching a new journal on advanced glass research. This new peer-reviewed quarterly will be called the International Journal of Applied Glass Science.

The journal’s debut is timely as new generations of glass and glass-related materials are increasingly being called upon to play a role in many of the world’s emerging technologies, including energy, medical, transportation, construction, environmental, optical and defense technologies spheres.

ACerS President John Kaniuk says IJAGS will encompass the description, application, modeling, experimental investigation and manufacture of glass materials.

L. David Pye, dean and professor of glass science, emeritus, at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University has agreed to serve as the founding editor of IJAGS. Pye will be aided by an international advisory board. Pye, who is the past president of ACerS, says the new journal “will advance all of the branches of materials science and engineering, and it will support the growing role of glass applications throughout society.” He said the first issue will be released in March 2010.

ACerS says the production of IJAGS will be done in partnership with leading science publisher Wiley-Blackwell. ACerS and Wiley-Blackwell already have a strong publishing track record and jointly produce two other peer-reviewed journals: The Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology. These journals are among the most cited ceramic publications in the world.

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Recently we noted that Steven Chu, a real scientist and experienced administrator, has been selected to run the Department of Energy. This week, we got a chance to talk with American Ceramic Society president John Kaniuk, who offered his opinion:

“Steven Chu is an admirable choice to lead DOE. As the former director of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the recipient of a Nobel Prize in physics, he is a highly regarded research scientist and much respected by academic researchers and scientists alike. “Just as importantly, Chu has also shown an ability to find a common ground with industry, working with companies like BP to develop alternative energy sources and public-private research and funding opportunities. His ability to navigate and produce results in both worlds – the world of science-academic research and the commercial-industrial world – make him a public official that ACerS membership – comprised of individuals from the same worlds – can very much relate to.”

John Holdren

The incoming administration in the past few days has made several other announcements related to science. Physicist John Holdren has been selected to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Holdren is a professor and director of the program on Science, Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is the director and president of the Woods Hole Research Center

Jane Lubchenco

Harold Varmus

Holdren, along with Harold Varmus and Eric Lander will serve as co-chairs of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Varmus won a Noble Prize for his cancer research and was director of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton administration. Lander is the founding director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard, and has played an important role in mapping the human genome.

Eric Lander

Finally, Obama recruited Jane Lubchenco to be the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Lubchenco is an environmental scientist and ecologist and a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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