Negas Wins Spriggs Award

Taki Negas, vice president of technology at Refractron Technologies, is the recipient of the Richard & Patricia Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, presented by the American Ceramic Society.

The award is given annually to a scientist who has made valuable contributions to phase-stability relationships in ceramic-based systems literature. The honor comes with a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000.

Negas is being recognized for a technical paper published in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry titled "Phase Relations, Crystal Chemistry, and Dielectric Properties in Sections of La₂O₃-CaO-MgO-TiO₂ System." Negas is known for his work in the research, development, and manufacturing of ceramic materials used in the wireless communications and other microwave-based industries.