PUI/MRSEC Collaboration to Create Opportunities for Women in Materials Research

西蒙斯学院是一所以本科生为主的女子学院，与康奈尔大学材料研究科学与工程中心建立了合作伙伴关系，为西蒙斯理科学生在其本科生涯中参与材料相关研究提供机会。该项目的总体重点是建立西蒙斯/康奈尔有机电致发光材料合作研究计划，为学生提供机会与教师合作进行及时的研究项目，获得尖端仪器，并在工业环境中获得相关工作经验。该项目的另一个目标是使女本科生有兴趣参与材料研究，并鼓励她们考虑在这一领域进行进一步的职业探索。该项目在一个以本科为主的机构和一个大型研究型大学及其联邦资助的研究中心之间建立了一个模型关系。本科院校通过增加与大型研究型大学的合作者和仪器设备的接触来加强其研究努力。后者受益于更好地招聘本科生人才库，并使其研究生有机会与本科生进行互动，并考虑在本科生院校从事研究生工作。

Simmons College, a predominantly undergraduate women's college, and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Cornell University establish a partnership to develop opportunities for science students at Simmons to participate in materials-related research throughout their undergraduate careers. The overall thrust of the project focuses on establishing a collaborative Simmons/Cornell research program on organic electroluminescent materials that provides opportunities for students to work with faculty on timely research projects, have access to sophisticated instrumentation, and gain related work experience in industrial settings. Another goal of the project is to interest female undergraduates in participating in material research and to encourage them to consider further career explorations in this area. This project establishes a model relationship between a predominantly undergraduate institution and a large research university and its federally funded research Center. The undergraduate institution enhances its research efforts through increased access to collaborators and instrumentation at the large research university. The latter benefits from enhanced recruitment access to a talented pool of undergraduates and from opportunities for its graduate students to interact with undergraduate faculty and to consider a postgraduate career at an undergraduate institution.