Andy Kraynik has taken office for a two-year term as president of the Society of Rheology and plans to focus on maintaining the high quality of society membership benefits, including its journal and meetings.
Kraynik succeeded Susan Muller (see Physics Today, December 2003, page 80) and took office last October after the society’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. In an interview last month with Physics Today, he said he wants to sustain the high level of service to the society that Muller provided during her term as president.
“When a new president comes in, we always joke, ‘Don’t mess it up,’ ” he said with a laugh. “Susan Muller was just absolutely superb in every way.…Our society is incredibly high functioning. Our dues are $40 a year and that includes Physics Today and the Journal of Rheology.”
According to Kraynik, society membership, domestic and international, totals...