AIST Committee Chair Honored with Presidential Award
07/24/2012 - Amy Clarke, chair of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology’s Metallurgy — Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee, was among 96 researchers honored by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Amy Clarke, chair of the Association for Iron & Steel Technology’s Metallurgy — Processing, Products and Applications Technology Committee, was among 96 researchers honored by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Ms. Clarke is a steel center Ph.D. graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and currently a researcher with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
“Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people,” President Obama said. “The impressive accomplishments of today’s awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead.”
The Presidential early career awards embody the high priority the Obama Administration places on producing outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the nation’s goals, tackle grand challenges, and contribute to the American economy. The recipients are employed or funded by the following departments and agencies: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of the Interior, Department of Veteran Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, which join together annually to nominate the most meritorious scientists and engineers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for assuring America’s preeminence in science and engineering and contributing to the awarding agencies’ missions.
