MSE's Juhas selected to lead women’s advocacy group

In January 2011, Ohio State President Gee and Provost Alutto appointed MSE professor Mary Juhas as the chair of the President and Provost's Council on Women (PPCW).

Juhas, Associate Dean for Diversity and Outreach for the College of Engineering and clinical associate professor in MSE, earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Seton Hill University, her master’s in materials science and engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and her doctorate in MSE from Ohio State. She is a co-principal investigator for Project CEOS (Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State), an NSF ADVANCE program. 

Previously named the President's Council on Women, PPCW's new name more appropriately reflects the council's mission of advocating to both the president and the provost for the advancement of all women at Ohio State and also of advocating for the development of policies and practices that positively impact the environment for all women at the university.

Through her programs and activities at NSF and at Ohio State, Juhas is an advocate for the recruitment and retention of women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, and the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) community in engineering and the sciences. She has held engineering research positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Edison Welding Institute, and the MSE department. Juhas, whose research interests focus on the area of microstructure/property relationships in structural materials, was among the first researchers in United States to study microstructural evolution in friction stir processed material, including aluminum and titanium alloys.