Alumnus 约翰·莫罗01年，06年博士 to present 2024 斯科尔斯 Lecture at Alfred University

Mauro earned bachelor’s degrees in glass engineering science and computer science in 2001 and a doctoral degree in glass science in 2006, 全部来自皇冠体育app, and is Dorothy Pate Enright Professor and Associate Head for 研究生 Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. 在他的演讲中, titled “There and Back Again: A Journey in Glass,” Mauro will talk about his career as a glass scientist and educator and the role his time as a student at Alfred University prepared him for professional success.

“Glass is a lifelong passion for me, starting from my childhood in the Alfred-Almond area. 在这个演讲中, I reflect on my personal journey in glass, from attending 斯科尔斯 Lectures as a student at Alfred University through my return to Alfred today,” Mauro states in the abstract for his talk. “I share my thoughts about how my education at Alfred University prepared me for success as both an industrial research scientist at Corning Incorporated and later in academia as a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State. I review several advances in glass physics and chemistry made during this time, including the development of new methods for designing and understanding industrial glass systems. I conclude with some thoughts about the pursuit of industrial vs. 学术生涯.”

Mauro joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, 统计力学, computational and condensed matter physics, 热力学, 无序网络的拓扑结构. He came to Penn State from Corning Incorporated, which he joined in 1999 and served in multiple roles, including senior research manager of the Glass 研究 Department, where he led a group of 15 scientists and technicians in the development of new glass and glass-ceramic products.

He is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, 包括康宁大猩猩^® 玻璃制品. He is a pioneer in the use of physics-based and machine learning models for the design of new glassy materials. Mauro is the inventor of new models for supercooled liquid and glass viscosity, 玻璃结构与拓扑, 放松的行为, 以及热学和机械性能. 他是《 无机玻璃基础, 3^rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and author of Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021), the most comprehensive textbook on kinetic phenomena in materials science.

Mauro被授予N.J. Kreidl Award (2006) from the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), Glass and Optical Materials Division. In 2010, Penn State University and the International Commission on Glass (ICG) awarded him the W.A. Weyl国际玻璃科学奖. 2011年，他获得了V. Gottardi奖, and in 2012 he was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Sir Alastair Pilkington Award from the Society of Glass Technology.

2013年，Mauro被授予S. Donald Stookey Award for Exploratory 研究 from Corning Incorporated. In 2015, he became a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and was recipient of the R.M. Fulrath奖. In 2016, the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE) selected Mauro as winner of the Karl Schwartzwalder Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering (PACE) Award. 最近, he was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology (2019) and is recipient of the 教师 of the Year Award (2019) at Penn State Materials Science and Engineering. He also won first place in the Penn State Tech Tournament (2023) for the invention of LionGlass^TM, a novel glass family that lowers the carbon footprint of glass manufacturing by ~50% while significantly improving mechanical performance.

Mauro is the author of over 360 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 200 presentations at international conferences and seminars. His publications have been cited over 18,500 times, with an h-指数为60. 约翰获得了80项美国奖学金.S. patents and several additional patents pending. 他是《 美国陶瓷学会杂志 and is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 美国国家发明家学会, 以及世界陶瓷学会.

The 斯科尔斯 Lecture Series was established in 1982 by alumni of Alfred University to honor the late Samuel R. 斯科尔斯, who in 1932 established the first glass science program in the United States at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. 他担任院长, 副院长, head of the Department of Glass Technology, 玻璃科学教授.