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MRSEC Education Directors Meeting

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 18:00 to Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 20:00
Event Type: 
Meeting Location
University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
Reading Room: Please come to the LRSM (Click here for a google map link), which is located at 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146. Enter the building from the Walnut Street entrance and proceed through the double glass doors. Once inside head to the right and follow signs for the “Reading Room." 
 

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

3:00 - 3:10 p.m.
Check-in and Welcome
Nev Singhota, Kristin Dreyer and Michelle McCombs
 
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.  MRSEC Education Share Session I
3:15 – 3:25: UPENN
3:28 – 3:38: U. of Nebraska
3:41 – 3:51: Northwestern
3:54 – 4:04: U. of Chicago
4:07 – 4:17: Harvard
4:20 – 4:30: MIT
4:33 – 4:43: U. of Michigan
4:46 – 4:56: U. Wisconsin-Madison
4:59 – 5:09: Cornell
 
5:10 – 5:30 p.m. 
MRS Proposal
5:10 – 5:20: Anne Lynn Gillian- Daniel, MRS Broadening Participation Committee
5:20 – 5:30: Libby Kupp: Chair, MRS Public Outreach Committee 
 
5:30- 6:00 p.m.
Standing Committees Initial Meeting move to rooms to be assigned
1. Assessing Impact: Chair Nev Singhota
2. Communication & Coordination Committee: Chair Kristin Dreyer 
3. Compiling Resources: Chair Christine Morrow
4. Broadening Participation: Chair Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, Co-Chair Christine Broadbridge
 
Dinner plan with your committee 
 

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Meeting Location
University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
Reading Room: Please come to the LRSM (Click here for a google map link), which is located at 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146. Enter the building from the Walnut Street entrance and proceed through the double glass doors. Once inside head to the right and follow signs for the “Reading Room." 
 
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. 
Registration, networking and light breakfast
 
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. 
Welcome: Nev Singhota and Andrew McGhie
 
9:15 – 9:45 a.m.
NSF MRSEC Program Director Dan Finotello
 
10:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Workshop: Putting Your Best Voice Forward
Prof. Kathleen Mulligan, Ithaca College Dept. of Theatre Arts
 
11:45 – 12:30 p.m.  
Lunch: Walk over to University Club on the second floor of the Inn at Penn
 
12:45 – 1:15 p.m.
Talk: My Serendipitous Road to Chemistry 
Presidential Prof. Daniel J. Mindiola, UPENN Dept. of Chemistry 
 
1:15 – 1:30 p.m. BREAK
 
1:30 – 4:00 p.m.  MRSEC Education Share Session II
1:30 – 1:40: Yale U.
1:43 – 1:53: Duke U. – NC State U
1:56 – 2:06: Penn State U
2:09 – 2:19: Ohio State U.
2:22 – 2:32: Brandeis U.
2:35 – 2:45: U. of Utah
2:48 – 2:58: U. of Colorado Boulder
 
3:01 – 3:11: BREAK
 
3:14 – 3:24: UCSB
3:27 – 3:37: Princeton U.
3:40 – 3:50: Columbia U.
3:53 – 4:03: NYU
 
4:04 – 4:05 p.m. U. of Minnesota
 
4:05 – 4:30 p.m. Share Session Abstracts
 
4:30 – 5:00 p.m.  Committees return to Reading Room to report out
 
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Introduction of 2016-2017 Education Network Co-chairs (Michelle McCombs & Kristin Dreyer), Election of Vice Chair and Closing Remarks