1. Looking Back with Gratitude

   • Howard E. Katz

   Letter from the President 01 December 2004 Pages: 907 - 907

2. Research/Researchers

   • Aditi S. Risbud
   • Shiming Wu
   • Lucy Yue Hu

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2004 Pages: 908 - 913

3. Technology Advances

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2004 Pages: 914 - 917

4. Image Gallery

   BriefCommunication 01 December 2004 Pages: 917 - 917

5. Science Policy

   BriefCommunication 01 December 2004 Pages: 918 - 919

6. Solid-Liquid Interfaces: Molecular Structure, Thermodynamics, and Crystallization

   • Mark Asta
   • Frans Spaepen
   • J. Friso van der Veen

   Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 920 - 926

7. Step and Kink Dynamics in Inorganic and Protein Crystallization

   • A. A. Chernov
   • J. J. De Yoreo
   • P. G. Vekilov

   Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 927 - 934

8. Crystal–Melt Interfaces and Solidification Morphologies in Metals and Alloys

   • J. J. Hoyt
   • M. Asta
   • J. R. Morris

   Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 935 - 939

9. The Influence of Order on the Nucleation Barrier

   • K. F. Kelton
   • A. L. Greer
   • D. Holland-Moritz

   Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 940 - 944

10. Nucleation and the Solid–Liquid Interfacial Free Energy

    • David T. Wu
    • László Gránásy
    • Frans Spaepen

    Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 945 - 950

11. In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of the Solid–Liquid Interface

    • James M. Howe
    • Hiroyasu Saka

    Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 951 - 957

12. Advertisers in This Issue

    BriefCommunication 01 December 2004 Pages: 957 - 957

13. Structural Ordering at the Solid–Liquid Interface

    • J. F. van der Veen
    • H. Reichert

    Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 958 - 962

14. Up Close: The Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, An Emergent Institution

    • Greg Boebinger
    • Daniel L. Cox
    • David Pines

    Technical Feature 01 December 2004 Pages: 963 - 966

15. ICMAT/ICAM to be Held July 2005 in Singapore

    International Union of Materials Research Societies 01 December 2004 Pages: 966 - 966

16. Strange Matter Brought Close Encounters of the “Strange” Kind to Ft. Lauderdale

    MRS News 01 December 2004 Pages: 967 - 967

17. Conference Reports

    Announcement 01 December 2004 Pages: 968 - 971

18. Library

    BriefCommunication 01 December 2004 Pages: 975 - 977