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Are you transforming how materials are taught? Making waves in how we prepare undergraduates and graduate students? Join us at TMS 2026 and submit an abstract to 'Preparing Undergraduate and Graduate Students - and the Faculty who Prepare Them - for Materials  Careers (The Judson Education Symposium)'. Abstracts due July 29, 2025.   www.tms.org/TMS2026 Topical areas: • Professional formation of materials engineers through curricular design. • Materials engineering workforce needs and training. • Assessment of student learning, experience, retention, resilience, mental health, etc. • Supporting early-, mid- and late-career faculty in the classroom • Partnerships to increase student pipelines • ABET accreditation of materials engineering programs. • Assessment and accreditation of materials graduate programs. Proud to be organizing this with Alison Polasik , David Bahr , Donald Brenner , Timothy Chambers, Subhadra ...

  https://www.stemgraduateprograms.com/2022/10/navigating-application-process-for.html Please share this blog post with undergraduate and graduate students who are pursuing funding for graduate school. Over the last 15 years, it has become harder to find funding for graduate school. A solution for students (and their research advisors) may be to apply for awards from “scholarship for service” programs. This is a blog post written about applying for Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship Program with two recipients- Camden Brady and Dr. Hunter Rogers.  

As part of their graduate program, LaToya McDonald, Jiayun Shen, Davis Ferriell and Kaitlyn Conway all worked as graduate assistants on our NSF funded S-STEM grant (SPECTRA).  This summer, three of them traveled to Minneapolis, MN to present their work related to mentoring students within 2- and 4-yr engineering and science programs. In addition, we saw contributions from Spencer Davenport, UGA graduate student who interned with Dr. Kennedy, and graduate research assistants on the SPECTRA grant.  The bolded names are of the student coauthors.  Work in Progress: Facilitating a year-long research course sequence for undergraduate transfer students within an NSF S-STEM scholarship program Jiayun Shen, LaToya McDonald, Marian Kennedy Work In Progress: Initiating a graduate teaching fellow program to support transfer students into engineering and computing Marian Kennedy, William Ferriell, Spencer Davenport, Kaitlynn Conway Work-in-Pro...

 Dr. Kennedy was thrilled to learn that the National Science Foundation is funding her team to host 10 high school teachers and community college instructors from South Carolina to conduct research at Clemson University. Each teacher will have agency over their own research project related to the development of advanced manufacturing materials or manufacturing techniques. By participating, the teacher’s confidence about manufacturing, knowledge of new manufacturing opportunities, and the research process is anticipated to increase. At the close of the program, each teacher will be able to convey the research process, the manufacturing landscape within the U.S., manufacturing career opportunities and different educational pathways into manufacturing to their students.  More information can be found here .     

 Dr. Kennedy was awarded the David and Mary Ann Bishop Dean’s Professorship award through the Department of Materials Science & Engineering to pursue her work to determine the influence of additive processing parameters on the wear mechanisms observed in CoCr systems. This professorship ‘recognizes a sustained record of excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, and service to the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences’.