213 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY College in 1977, she then earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. Shortly thereafter, she received a NATO Fellowship from the University of Oxford for the following year before being employed by Stony Brook University in New York as an assistant professor in 1983. Remaining with the prestigious university until 1985, she concurrently served as a consultant for IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, for two weeks. From 1986 until her retirement in 1994, she served as a materials research engineer with the Army Research Laboratory in Watertown, Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Dr. Vanderwalker has authored myriad papers and other publications in esteemed professional journals regarding material science, most recently including “Hydride Formation on Dislocations in Titanium” in 1989, “Fracture in Titanium Diboride” in 1989, and “The Dependence of Li Phase Nucleation on the Structure of Partial Dislocations in Silicon” in 1985. Previously, she wrote “A Dark-Field TEM Method for Crystal Structure Determination of Cu-Rich Phases on Twins in Silicon” in 1984. Although her career has been filled with highlights, she is especially proud of her many publications and research in her field. Maintaining affiliation with the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr. Vanderwalker credits her success to perseverance and selfdetermination, particularly during her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford. As a testament to her resounding success, she has been profiled in numerous Who’s Who publications, including Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who of American Women. In her spare time, she enjoys oil painting. I nterested in the sciences from a formative age, Dr. Diane Mary Vanderwalker honed her interests on material science, and subsequently decided to work on dislocations and precipitation in materials. Obtaining a Bachelor of Science from Boston DIANE MARY VANDERWALKER, PHD MATERIALS RESEARCH ENGINEER (RETIRED) Army Research Laboratory Chicopee, MA
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