The Federation of Materials Societies has chosen Prof. Jerry Woodall, C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical, Professor of Applied Physics, and Co-Director of the Center for Microelectronic Materials and Structures, as the winner of the 2002 National Materials Award. The Award is given to individuals who demonstrate "outstanding capabilities in advancing the effective and economic use of material and the multi-disciplinary field of materials science and engineering generally and who contribute to the application of the materials profession to national problems and policy."

Prof. Woodall will accept the award at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Dec. 11. Last May, Prof. Woodall accepted the National Medal of Technology from President Bush at the White House.