Schneider Contributes to Final Report of TMS Diversity Summit

April 12, 2015

Judy Schneider, Coleman and Whiteside Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received a competitive travel grant from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Women in Materials Science and Engineering Committee (funded by the TMS Foundation) to attend Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). The final report and toolkit from that summit, organized by TMS in July 2014, has just been released and are now available for free online at www.tms.org/DiversityReport. Schneider’s participation in a variety of summit workshops and activities helped shape the content of these resources. She recently published an essay on her perspectives of the summit in a JOM article, “DMMM1 Builds on the Strength in Diversity.”

The DMMM1 Final Report: Thinking Globally explores five recurring themes of the summit—mentorship, work-life balance, community, awareness, and vigilance—while also documenting actionable strategies to address these issues in the workplace. The DMMM1 Toolkit: Acting Locally offers a convenient reference guide of available resources identified at the summit. Module topics include: resources for advancement and assessment; resources for skills building; and resources for connectivity and community.

“TMS is sharing the information and experiences discussed in the report to encourage the broadest possible participation and action on diversity and inclusion in the science and engineering workplace, said James J. Robinson, TMS Executive Director. “The quality and relevance of these resources would not have been possible without the thought leadership of summit participants such as Judy Schneider.”

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The TMS Women in Materials Science and Engineering Committee awarded five travel grants, funded by the TMS Foundation, to enable TMS members to attend Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1) in July 2014. Here, the travel grants recipients pose in front of the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Jennifer Carter, Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University; Judy Schneider, Professor at Mississippi State University; Kinga Unocic, Research Staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Clarissa A. Yablinsky, Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Amber Genau, Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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