Fall 2025 Annual Business Meeting Minutes

Motion to approve minutes of 2024 Business Meeting; second; approved by consent

JOR Report (Dimitris Vlassopoulos)

• Updated editorial Board;
• Planning centennial volume 2029
• Submissions up 49% compared to last year.
• Conducted surveys of authors who were accepted or rejected.
• Impact does well compared to mechanics journals.
• Added perspective articles 3 years ago (not reviews, more forward looking)

Treasurer (Lisa Biswal)

• Total assets $2.8M
• Treasurer’s report has more detail in Bulletin
• Year over year assets increasing over a 10 year period.
• Last year: $319k revenue; $256k expenses
• This year: we are net positive relative to budget.
• 2026 Budget:$287k receipts, including Boston meeting; disbursements: similar to 2025. net -$57k
• Motion to approve budget, second, approved by consent

Logo Unveil (Anne Grillet)

Website 2.0 https://www.societyofrheology.org (Rae Robertson-Anderson)

• Worked to capture the ethos of society
• New:Newsletter: Newsflow.
• SOR Community Forum: Members only open forum
• Unveiled new website, showed highlights.
• Members only website
• Seeking someone to help with website and serve as liaison between website and social media.

Meetings (Jeff Morris)

• 406 registrants this meeting , we are down from last year
• Future:Boston 2026 Oct. 25-29, McKinley and Jamali are local organizers, Hilton Park Plaza 20^th ICR Guangzhou, China
• Madison, 2028, Graham
• Washington DC 2029 Centennial
• ICR 2031 will be in the Americas.

Rheology Community Development Committee (Katie Weigandt)

• Reported on RRS Over 60% were 4^th and 5^th year students.
• Student Industry Forum returns this year.
• New: Early career and new rheologist mentoring

Membership Report (Safa Jamali)

• Long term decline, but an upturn this year.
• Highest since 2019, some recovering loss

Education (Jim Gilchrist)

• Outreach activity and Shortcourses
• 2 shortcourses, 1 day each
• Soliciting future shortcourses

Meeting Adjournment, 1PM