See Forbes magazine for the list (including Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang)!

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The Opening Session at MS&T featured a panel of speakers actively working in renewable energy. The panelists – who included  Yet-Ming Chiang, past ACerS president and Savannah River National Lab associate director John Marra, and Solar Power Industries’ Gregory Hildeman – spoke on the topic of “New Energy Opportunities for Materials Science and Engineering.”

The Street writes about national and state attempts to create jobs in the green job sector; they cite A123 and mention President Obama’s tour of MIT labs, including his meeting with Prof. Angela Belcher.

This week, Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang will receive the American Ceramic Society with the ACerS 2009 Corporate Technical Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding achievement in field of ceramics, particularly in founding A123 Systems.  A cover story in the ACerS Bulletin describes how Prof. Chiang became a materials scientist and the history of A123. DMSE Alumni/ae and friends will recognize many names of instructors, colleagues, and friends.

XSite 2009, the XConomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, will celebrate New England innovation and showcase the panorama of transformative efforts underway in the region in such fields as energy, life sciences, robotics, cloud and mobile computing, and transportation—at universities, startups, and large corporations. They will also challenge New England’s innovators to step up and take an even larger role in embracing and shaping the future.

One of the day’s speakers is Yet-Ming Chiang, DMSE faculty member and c0-founder of A123 Systems.  The conference will be held June 24. For details and registration information, see their website.