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Future Faculty Workshop: Creating Leaders of Tomorrow

Sunday, July 15, 2012 (All day) to Tuesday, July 17, 2012 (All day)
UCSB Materials Research Laboratory

Proposals – Negotiating – Supervision – Interviews – Research Directions – Publishing – Application Process: This  2  day  workshop  will  seek  to  provide mentorship to aspiring underrepresented minority students with ambitions to become independent  academic  researchers  in  the  broad areas of  Chemistry,  Chemical  Engineering  and Materials Science. The workshop will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara from the evening of Sunday July 15 to Tuesday evening July 17, 2012. Eminent professors from around the country will be in attendance to provide mentoring and the goal is to maintain a student/faculty ratio that is less than 4:1. This is the 5th workshop in this series and the previous workshops were held at MIT (2008, 2011), Carnegie Mellon University (2009), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2010).

Application Procedure:
Students from Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science and related departments are encouraged to apply. Applications should be e-mailed to hawker [at] mrl [dot] ucsb [dot] edu and should include: The Student’s resume (PDF), a short personal statement (including research interests and career goals), and faculty references (telephone and e-mail). The students should also arrange for one or more faculty members to send brief reference letters to hawker [at] mrl [dot] ucsb [dot] edu. The workshop attendance will be limited to 20-25 students. Reasonable travel costs will be covered. Final selection of participants will be made by June 29, 2012. Early submissions are welcome as applications may be accepted before the deadline date.

 

Organizers:

 

Professor Ram Seshadri

Materials Research Laboratory

UC, Santa Barbara

 

Faculty Mentors:

 

Professor Kenneth R. Carter

Polymer Science

UMASS, Amherst

 

 

Professor Malika Jeffries-El

Chemistry

Iowa State University

 

Professor Timothy M. Swager

Chemistry

MIT

 

Professor Thomas Epps

Chemical Engineering

University of Deleware

Professor LaShanda Korley Macromolecular Science

Case Western Reserve University

Professor Craig Hawker

Materials Research Laboratory

UC, Santa Barbara

Professor Joseph DeSimone Chemistry

UNC, Chapel Hill

 

Professor Christine Ortiz

Materials Science and Engineering

MIT

Professor Richard McCullough

Chemistry

Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Paula T. Hammond Chemical Engineering

MIT

Professor Gregory N. Tew

Polymer Science

UMASS, Amherst