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alfred.edu
Retired AU Professor to
Receive Award from Pittsburgh
Ceramic Society
Alfred, NY -- Dr. Richard M. Spriggs,
professor emeritus of ceramic engineering at
Alfred University, will receive the 53rd Albert
Victor Bleininger Memorial Award from the
Pittsburgh Section of the American Ceramic
Society. The award, which will be presented
at the Section's Oct. 20 meeting the
Warrendale (PA) Sheraton Inn, is given
annually "in honor of outstanding
achievements in the field of ceramics."
Spriggs, who retired in 1998 from the School
of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science
at Alfred University, was the first executive
director of the New York State Center for
Advanced Ceramic Technology and the first
John F. McMahon Professor of Ceramic
Engineering. He also served for 10 years as
the director of Sponsored Research for the
New York State College of Ceramics at
Alfred University.
During his final year at Alfred, Spriggs was
involved with the preparation and submission
of the redesignation proposal for the CACT;
helped plan and execute a national meeting on
technical ceramics; and participated in the
preparation of a "blueprint" on behalf of the
Ceramic Association of New York (CANY)
for the ceramics and glass industry in New
York state in cooperation with the Empire
State Development Corporation. He was also
instrumental in the revitalization of CANY.
In addition to academic administration and
project management, Spriggs' interests include
correlations among processing, structure and
properties of dense ceramics; hot pressing of
ceramics; and self-propagating
high-temperature synthesis of ceramic
materials.
During his career, Spriggs has authored or
co-authored more than 100 research papers
in the field of ceramics and holds three U.S.
patents.
He is a Distinguished Life Member Fellow of
the American Ceramic Society and served as
its president in 1984-85. He received the
Society's Ross Coffin Purdy Award in 1967
and the Hobart Kraner Award in 1980.
Spriggs is a Fellow of the Institute of
Ceramics, a former trustee of the Federation
of Materials Societies, and one of 38
scientists from throughout the world to have
been elected full members of the International
Institute for the Science of Sintering. He was
elected a member of the Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts in 1995.
A graduate of Pennsylvania State University
with a BS degree in ceramic engineering,
Spriggs received both his MS and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Illinois.
Those interested in attending the Oct. 20
dinner may contact Chuck Marvin, 230
Cruikshank Road, Butler, PA 16002;
telephone him at 724-586-2473; or e-mail
him at cmarvin@penn.com.
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