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An Interview With 2026–2027 AIST President John G. Speer
John Speer, American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair for Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, discusses his upcoming term as president of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
May 29, 2026
The sixty-ton problem: Scandium supply chain risk the US defense industrial base
Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this article considering the role of scandium in the United States' defense infrastructure.
May 28, 2026
‘Dot-com boom’? Companies are lining up to mine the deep seas.
Ian Lange, professor of economics and business and Viola Vestal Coulter Chair of Mineral Economics, noted there are alternatives to deep sea mining, including utilizing land-based copper and cobalt mines in the U.S.
May 26, 2026