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The offerings below were designed to help provide the skills, fundamentals and knowledge needed for both professional development and career enhancement in materials science and engineering.

Instructional Seminar -- Mastering Science Presentations
Admission was included with 2009 MRS Fall Meeting registration.  No additional registration required.

The scientific process is not just about generating ideas; it is about freely sharing those ideas with the broader world. Now more than ever, our ability to recruit students, to attract colleagues, to garner attention, and to secure funding is tied to our ability to successfully communicate the results of our work, both to our peers and to the general public.

Communications expert Tim Miller has spent his career helping working scientists and students bring their work out of the laboratory and share it with broader audiences. Communicating your research with non-experts is an important skill for a variety of reasons. In this session, attendees learned the fundamentals in sharing science as Tim explained how to choose the very best tools to do the job of communication and shares some of the tips and tricks that can help you take scientific presentations to the next level.

Presentations conducted by Tim Miller of Divine Wind. LCC

Sponsored by the NISE Network 

Women and the Power of Negotiation: Learning to Ask
For more information, please contact Lorri Smiley (smiley@mrs.org)

Whether they want higher salaries, better career opportunities, or more help at home, women are much less likely than men to ask for what they want. In this workshop, Sara Laschever explained the causes of this recently recognized phenomenon and shows how, by mastering a few basic principles, careful planning, and practice, anyone can become an effective negotiator. Attendees learned negotiation strategies that have been shown to work best for women, and discovered ways to maximize their bargaining power, set the right negotiation targets, and remain unfazed by the emotional dimensions of negotiating.

Workshop Conducted by Sara Laschever View Bio

Sara Laschever is a Fellow of the Center for Work-Life Policy and the co-author, with Linda Babcock, of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation To Get What They Really Want and Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation and Positive Strategies for Change, both available from Bantam Publishing.

Registration Included

Workshop Materials
Mid-afternoon Refreshment Break
Networking Reception after Workshop

Crafting Successful Broader Impacts Plans for NSF Proposals
Admission was included with 2009 MRS Fall Meeting registration.  No additional registration required.

If you have plans to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation, you’re going to have to think about broader impacts, and you’re going to have to do so in a rigorous, yet creative way.

One of the NSF’s two merit review criteria, “broader impacts” means sharing the project’s research with an audience broader than that of your research peers. Frequently, this is simply described as the education-outreach effort of a research program. One of the challenges of broader impacts, though, is that your area of expertise is most likely not education-outreach, but rather some technical aspect of materials science and engineering. This may leave you feeling overwhelmed, inexperienced, or even apathetic. The point of this seminar is to change that and to help you begin to understand the strategies and resources behind creating an effective, rigorous, and creative broader impacts plan – thus making your proposal even stronger.

This seminar featured an overview of and introduction to broader impacts by Dr. Zakya Kafafi, NSF, followed by a moderated panel of speakers who are experts in crafting high quality education-outreach efforts. The seminar concluded with a discussion of resources and potential partners to help you develop – and implement – your broader impacts plan.

Zakya Kafafi, Director Division Materials Science, NSF

Moderator

Assoc. Prof. Amy Moll
Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University
Chair, MRS Public Outreach Committee

Sponsored by the NISE Network 

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