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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 .