摘要
TMS members formed the Biomaterials Committee and initiated the Biological Materials Science Symposium (BMS), which has grown steadily over the past 6-7 years to include many first-time TMS presenters from interdisciplinary fields. The committee is dedicated to the training of members and especially students, and the BMS Symposium has always held openings for student-contributed presentations, offered travel awards, and presented cash prizes for its own separate student poster contest. A theme emerges from those invested in learning from the natural world, which shows that we must first seek to understand how nature's designs work, and in order to do so, we must reverse engineer and then re-engineer to suit our needs. Envisioning future integration of life sciences with materials science and engineering is also required.