The June/July issue of the ACerS Bulletin features articles from students all over the world, whose backgrounds and research experiences provide insight to a wide range of fields related to ceramics. The following articles have been written by students at various stages in their careers and from far reaches of the globe, and therefore represent a wide cross-section of locations of a map and also research areas within the ceramics communities. These articles present work that is not only cutting-edge ceramics research, but also shows that our community is unified in its efforts to make a positive impact on our world.

In the following pages, some students talk about environmental impact, focusing on how we can make manufacturing changes to reduce our impact or harvest energy in more environmentally-friendly ways. Other articles focus on biomaterials for improving the lives of our fellow humans, mechanisms for increasing the useable lifetime of products, or how computational skills can increase the speed of scientific discovery. Regardless of our cultural or educational backgrounds, the ceramic engineers of today are unified in our resolve to build a better future.