MRS University Chapter Special Project Grants offer learning and collaboration
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MRS University Chapter Special Project Grants offer learning and collaboration
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on how to use Adobe Illustrator, ImageJ, and MATLAB. Senior graduate students who were experts in Adobe Illustrator and MATLAB led the workshops. The operations director at NU’s Biological Imaging Facility led the ImageJ workshop. MSUS also ran outreach events to gather feedback, gauge interest in future workshops, and provide context for why these workshops are useful. The events proved to be good complements to the workshops. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) ran an Industry Panel and Networking Session, where they invited local industry scientists to discuss their careers. They had representatives from several large companies (Eastman Chemical Company, Lucideon), a few startups (Tethis, Inc., Trio Labs, Inc.), and a government organization (US Environmental Protection Agency). During the Q&A panel, attendees had the opportunity to ask the panelists about their jobs and career paths. After the Q&A panel, attendees were invited to a networking social, where everyone had an opportunity to ask the panel guests and some of their co-workers additional questions. Remaining money in the budget was used to host a lunch meeting with UNC’s industry relations officer. At this meeting, they learned about his job as a “bridge” between academic and industry scientists and how he helps foster partnerships between the two. The MRS University Chapter at Boston University held a Materials Madness event, where teams competed The UNC chapter also held in materials science challenges. Top: Students work together to build the strongest/tallest tower using toothan Undergraduate Outreach picks, gumdrops, and marshmallows. Bottom: Students are enjoying liquid nitrogen ice cream made during the Seminar Series. The goals of event. Photos courtesy of MRS University Chapter, Boston University. this project were to help expose
he Materials Research Society (MRS) University Chapter Special Projects Program is dedicated to supporting projects proposed by MRS University Chapters. These projects generate student interest and membership for the Chapters. The goal is to support a broad variety of projects. With the MRS University Chapter Special Projects Grant, the Materials Science Umbrella Society (MSUS) at
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Northwestern University (NU) was able to organize Software Workshops for Materials Science Graduate Students and related outreach events. Prior to starting these workshops, MSUS sent a survey to all materials science and engineering (MS&E) graduate students and asked for their input on what software programs are most relevant for classes and research projects. The software workshops focused
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