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He is an NAE member and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Amer­ican Society for Metals, and the National Association of Corrosion Engin­eers (NACE), serving as a NACE director. He won NACE’s Campbell Award and Whitney Award, the Mac Farland Award from Penn State’s NACE chapter, AIME’s Henry Krumb lectureship, the T.P. Hoar Award, was named a centennial scholar at both Case Western Reserve University and Penn State, and was named a distinguished Ohio State alumnus. He served as science advisor to the US House of Representa­tives Science and Technology Committee (1982--83), on the advisory committee for the Massachusetts Office of Science and Technology, and as education advisor to Senator Paul Tsongas’ presidential campaign. In 2002 President Bush appointed him to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

Wiki MarkupThe mystery of the elusive “i” is compounded by Ron’s spouse Carolyn, who remains truer to her husband’s Ukrainian origins by steadfastly pronouncing it. Carolyn is a nationally recognized painter in oils and watercolors and a member of the prestigious Copley Society of Boston. MIT and DMSE are the poorer for the departure of this accomplished partnership, for both of whom an emeritus title, appropriate to its latinate origins, is deservedly accorded e meritus: “out of having served \ [meritoriously\].”

by Prof. Linn Hobbs