The American Ceramic Society will have a new award to give starting in 2019, The Navrotsky Award for Experimental Thermodynamics of Solids. The award was established by and named for University of California, Davis professor, Alexandra Navrotsky, who has built an illustrious career studying thermodynamics of materials.

The award will be given every two years to recognize the author who made the most innovative contribution to experimental thermodynamics of solids technical literature during the two calendar years prior to selection. The recipient will receive a certificate, $5,000 prize, and is expected to give a talk on the cited work at the conference at which the award is made.