UTK-MRSEC's REU program offers a 10-week summer research experience, integrating professional development, facility visits, and virtual seminars, in collaboration with UT-ORII’s SMaRT program.
The I-MRSEC's annual outreach program at Franklin STEAM Academy includes engaging materials science lessons and creative expression through arts for middle school students, culminating in a field trip to the Materials Research Lab.
The STEM Academy, in partnership with the Bronx Center for Science and Math, offers intensive physics and chemistry tutoring, faculty lectures, lab visits, and student panels during NYC public school breaks.
The eSMART program at MRSEC engages high school students in physics through immersive experiences, including research discussions, facility tours, hands-on experiments, and visits to museums and laboratories.
The UT Austin Entrepreneurial Greenhouse Program leverages NSF I-Corps elements to teach technology transfer, business models, and commercialization strategies to students and faculty through workshops and local resources.
Since 2003 we have successfully partnered with universities in southern Africa, specifically Lesotho and South Africa, to bring four faculty members to the LRSM every summer to participate in collaborative research projects with our associate faculty.
The UTRGV-UMN PREM program fosters educational and research collaboration to enhance participation from underrepresented groups in materials science, supported by NSF Award DMR-2122178.
The Kadanoff-Rice Fellowship offers postdoctoral opportunities in experimental, theoretical, or computational materials science at MRSEC, promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration with faculty at the University of Chicago.
UMN’s MRSEC, in collaboration with NCGA, offers a three-day RET workshop for high school chemistry teachers, focusing on sustainability and green chemistry through inquiry-based learning.
The MRSEC Graduate Fellowships support collaborative research in materials science by graduate students. Proposals must involve MRSEC labs, with funding encompassing stipends and travel support for conferences.