Engaging Center Students and Postdocs

The annual MRSEC student survey (with 57 respondents) highlighted several areas of interest, including science communication (70%), networking with industry (65%), interviewing for jobs (72%) and mentor/mentee training (44%) and resulting in:

•Two science communication workshops

•Poster sessions with industry visitors (3M, Lockheed Martin, & General Dynamics) 

•Improvements to the PREM Penn Pal mentoring program

•Recruitment & Retention Team efforts to engage MRSEC alumni as seminar speakers in career discussions