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More than 4,600 scientists, engineers, and students from around the worLd attended TMS2020, making it the best-attended annuaL meeting in TMS history-and also the Last in-person event that TMS wouLd hoLd for the remainder of the year. In coLLaboration with our PubLic & Government Affairs Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, TMS developed a statement to the membership decrying aLL forms of racism and discrimination. NEW TMS STUDY Accelerating the Broad Implementation of Verification & Validation in Computational Models of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures Organized by TMS on behaLf of the NationaL Science Foundation, this science and technoLogy acceLerator study report was pubLished in October 2020 and is now avaiLabLe for free downLoad at www.tms.org/Studies. 2020 MEETINGS, EVENTS, AND WEBINARS WhiLe a number of events had to be canceLed or postponed in 2020, the foLLowing events were heLd either in person (TMS2020) or virtuaLLy (aLL other events).