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FUTURE FACULTY WORKSHOP:

Diverse Leaders of Tomorrow

June 19 - 21, 2011

This 2 day workshop will seek to provide mentorship to aspiring underrepresented minority students with ambitions to become independent academic researchers in the areas of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering as it relates to Polymer Science, Materials Science, and Supramolecular Science. The workshop will be held in Massachusetts outside of Boston at MIT’s Endicott House (www.mitendicotthouse.org) from the evening of Sunday June 19 to Tuesday evening June 21, 2011. 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 four. This is the 4th workshop in this series and the previous workshops were held at MIT (2008), Carnegie Mellon University (2009), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2010).

image of endicott house

Application Procedure:

Students from Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science and related departments are encouraged to apply. Applications should be e-mailed to tswager@mit.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 tswager@mit.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 May 27, 2011. Early submissions are welcome as applications may be accepted before the deadline date.

Organizer:

Professor Timothy M. Swager
Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Faculty Mentors will include:

Professor Kenneth R. Carter
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Thomas Epps
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Deleware

Professor Joseph DeSimone
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professor Craig Hawker
Departments of Chemistry and Materials Science
University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor Paula T. Hammond
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Professor Malika Jeffries-El
Department of Chemistry
Iowa State University

Professor LaShanda Korley
Macromolecular Science and Engineering Department
Case Western Reserve University

Professor Christine Ortiz
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Richard McCullough
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Gregory N. Tew
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst