Lawrence F. Hancock, CEO of Akita Innovations, received the 2020 R.E. Tressler Award from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Pennsylvania State University on February 27, 2020.  The Tressler award honors the work and contributions of Richard E. Tressler, who was an international leader in the development of high temperature materials and served as head of Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering from 1991 to 2001.  https://news.psu.edu/story/609792/2020/02/25/penn-state-alumnus-hancock-present-re-tressler-lecture