Alfred University faculty, students, and alumni present at glass conferences in Cambridge, UK

group of many people standing in front of a statue and building — Attendees at the joint conference of the Annual Conference of the Society of Glass 2024, the 15th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials, and the 15th Conference of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology, held at Churchill College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, are shown above. They included several faculty, students and alumni from Alfred University.

One current and three emeriti members of the glass science faculty represented Alfred University at three recent prestigious conferences on glass held in the United Kingdom. Alfred University graduate students and alumni were also among those making presentations at the conferences.

The event—a joint conference of the Annual Conference of the Society of Glass 2024, the 15^th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials, and the 15^th Conference of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology—was held July 15-19 at Churchill College, Cambridge.

Among those attending were Doris Möncke, professor of glass science in Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering, and emeriti glass science professors William LaCourse, Arun Varshneya (who currently serves as president of the Society of Glass Technology), and Alastair Cormack, each of whom gave presentations on their work.

LaCourse and his graduate student, Jacob Kaspryk, gave talks and a poster presentation on ion exchange, the mixed alkali effect and glass fertilizer.

Two graduate students supervised by Möncke, Lenorah Haight-Stott and Amir Ashjari, presented their work in oral talks, and each gave a poster presentation. Materials Development Inc. (MDI) presented an award for the best student talk to Haight-Stott, in recognition of their thesis work “Structure Property Correlation in the Bi₂O₃-ZnO-B₂O₃-SiO₂ glass system”, a funded collaboration with Los Alamos National Labs (LANL), co-supervised by LaCourse and Möncke.

Two Alfred University alumni also participated in the conferences. Nathan Cassingham ’03 (B.S., materials science and engineering, gave an invited talk on additive manufacturing. Lucas Greiner ’21 (B.S., glass engineering science), ’24 (M.S., glass science), winner of the David Matthew award at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Society of Glass, presented his current PhD research from Missouri State University.

Möncke, who as a member of the Basic Science and Technology Committee of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) was also a member of the local organization committee, will also be on the local organization committee of the 16^th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials which will be held in Boulder, CO.