Congressional Fellows
MRS co-sponsors two Congressional Fellowships providing members with an invaluable opportunity of public policy learning. Fellows contribute effective use of optical and materials science knowledge in government and broaden awareness of the value of scientist- and engineer-government interaction among our memberships, the federal government and the public.
Dr. Mirvat Abdelhaq, the current MRS/OSA Congressional Science &
Engineering Fellow, has chosen to work in the office of Senator Jeff
Merkley (D-Oregon), providing guidance on science policy issues
involving energy and the environment.
Click on the links below for details on Fellowship candidate criteria, application materials and instructions, and download and save our Congressional Fellowship program brochure.
The application for the 2014-2015 MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship and the MRS/TMS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship will be available here by September 2, 2013. For further information on either Fellowship program, contact Donna Gillespie or the contacts listed for the participating societies.
The Optical Society (OSA); SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics; and the Materials Research Society are pleased to announce their 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows: Carly Robinson, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), will serve as the 2013-2014 Arthur H. Guenther Congressional Fellow co-sponsored by OSA and SPIE, and Sydney Kaufman, also a Ph.D. candidate at CU-Boulder, will serve as the OSA/MRS Congressional Fellow. Each will serve one-year terms working as special legislative assistants on the staffs of U.S. congressional offices or committees in Washington, D.C.
Read More »A PDF download of our current Congressional Fellows program brochure.
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Congressional Fellow spends one year working as a special legislative assistant
on the staff of a member of Congress or congressional committee. Activities may
involve conducting legislative or oversight work, assisting in congressional
hearings and debates, and preparing briefs and writing speeches. The Fellow
also attends an orientation program on congressional and executive branch
operations, which includes guidance in the congressional placement process, and
a year-long seminar series on science and public policy issues. The 2013-2014
MRS/OSA Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow is Sydney Kaufman.
Read More »The MRS/TMS Congressional
Fellow spends one year working as a special legislative assistant on the staff
of a member of Congress or congressional committee. Activities may involve conducting legislative
or oversight work, assisting in congressional hearings and debates, and
preparing briefs and writing speeches. The Fellow also attends an orientation
program on congressional and executive branch operations, which includes
guidance in the congressional placement process, and a year-long seminar series
on science and public policy issues. The 2012-2013
MRS/TMS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow is Andrew D. Steigerwald,
PhD.
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