Diverse Leaders of Tomorrow
June 19-21, 2011
Endicott House - MIT
Tim Swager
Organizer
| Goals Help URM Graduate Students and Postdoctorates Realize Their Full Potential and Compete Effectively for Academic Positions and Successful Careers Enhance Proposal Presentation/Development, Career Planning, Protecting Intellectual Property, Understanding Unwritten Rules in Career Paths and Job Interviewing/Negotiation, Defending Research Proposals |
| Motivation for Workshop: |
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| The Bottom Line! |
| Our nation needs to take advantage of the excellence inherent in the growing percentage of URM in order to maintain a sufficient supply of domestic PhDs. One Approach: Facilitate Emerging URM Leaders to Attain Professor Positions |
| Why Polymers / Organic / Biological / Inorganic / Materials? |
| Subject Focus Will Allow for Higher Level
Scientiļ¬c Discourse There is an Expanding Appreciation That Materials Underpin Innovations in Health, Analytical Science, Security, Energy, Environmental Sustainability This Field is Very Diverse Spanning Engineering, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry and This CultureEmbraces Diversity |
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Rick McCullough |
Malika Jeffries-EL |
Paula Hammond |
Christine Ortiz |
Ken Carter |
Carnegie-Mellon |
Iowa State |
MIT |
MIT |
UMASS - Amherst |
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Jeremiah Johnson |
Greg Tew |
Thomas Epps, III |
Joe DeSimone |
LaShonda Korley |
MIT |
UMASS - Amherst |
Univ. Delaware |
UNC - Chapel Hill |
Case Western Reserve |
| Addtional Workshop Information |
| 2011 Workshop Agenda (click for PDF) |
| 2011 Workshop Presentations and Materials |
| Past Workshop Pictures! |
2011 Worskshop Attendess |
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Picture of attendees at the Endicott House - MIT, June 19, 2011 |
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2008 Workshop Attendees and Positions
