There are many commendable early career researchers who are positively impacting the ceramics and glass community, yet their efforts often go unrecognized. To celebrate our younger members and their accomplishments, Journal of the American Ceramic Society launched the 2^nd Century Trailblazers initiative in 2023 (https://ceramics.org/trailblazers).

The 2^nd Century Trailblazers initiative aimed to elevate the work of researchers who received their Ph.D. degrees within the past 10 years by inviting select authors to submit manuscripts to JACerS. The initiative culminated in the JACerS March 2024 issue (Figure 1), which solely contains papers submitted through the initiative.