Michigan AGEP Alliance

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Michigan AGEP Alliance

• Program Highlights
• Dr. Alec Gallimore, Co-PI
• Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Aerospace
  Engineering
• Associate Dean, Horace H. Rackham School of
  Graduate Studies
• The University of Michigan

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Michigan AGEP Alliance (MAA)

• Institutions
• Michigan State University (MSU)
• University of Michigan (UM)
• Wayne State University (WSU)
• Western Michigan University (WMU)

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Notable Programs

• AGEP Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Mentoring
• AGEP Scholars Mentoring Program
• MORE (Mentoring Others Results in Excellence)
• HBCU Outreach
• AGEP Community Building
• MAA Conferences
• Recruitment
• Mega Midwest AGEP Conference (with other
  alliances)

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

• Program began September 2007
• Provides research opportunity with teaching
  option for recent Ph.D.s in STEM fields
• One-year appointment, renewable for a second year
• Employment Package
• 55,000 annual salary with full health benefits
• 5,000 for research and travel expenses
• Faculty and college cost-share with MAA to
  support postdoc
• Strong faculty mentoring is a major criterion for
  selection
• 7 fellows in engineering and the physical
  sciences
• 2 or 3 new fellows starting this fall

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AGEP Scholars Mentoring

• Advanced AGEP scholars mentor First- and
  Second-year Ph.D. students
• Goals
• Increase student satisfaction and retention
• Enhance student skills for graduate school and
  beyond
• Develop meaningful connections between new and
  more experienced students
• Currently gt70 active mentor-protégée pairs
• One-on-one mentoring and group meetings monthly
  throughout academic year
• Topics covered at group meetings include The
  Imposter Syndrome, Finding an Advisor, and Stress
  Management

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• Mission
• To support and enhance graduate student mentoring
  to improve retention, productivity, and overall
  student success
• To equip faculty, students, and staff with the
  best tools and practices for mentoring
• Scope
• Eight STEM faculty members led by a social
  scientist provide workshops, material, and
  consultation
• Results oriented and data driven approach
• Currently serving engineering, physical and
  health sciences, and environmental sciences
• Future plans to expand to other disciplines

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HBCU Outreach

• Campus Visitation Programs
• Michigan State University Enhance-Your-Future
  Conference
• Western Michigan University HBCU Visitation
  Program
• 2-3 days on campus
• Include HBCU faculty (MSU) and student (MSU, WMU)
  participation
• Workshops
• Meetings with faculty members in students area
  of interest
• Meetings with current doctoral students
• AUC Dual-Degree in Engineering Program (UM)
• Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)
• Seed funding for specialized science Masters
  program (recruiting)

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AGEP Community Building

• Purpose promote fellowship, hone research
  presentation skills, support interdisciplinary
  dialogue, and facilitate student-faculty
  interaction
• Michigan AGEP Learning Community (MSU)
• Monthly meetings
• Informal research presentations
• Students and faculty interaction
• Michigan AGEP Scholars Seminar Series (UM)
• Monthly meetings
• Formal research presentations and 5-Minute Chalk
  Talks
• AGEP Distinguished Researcher sessions

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MAA Conferences

• Goal Develop a community of scholars across
  alliance
• One alliance-wide conference each Fall and Spring
  term
• Rotated among alliance campuses with themes
• Pathways to the Ph.D.
• Conflict Resolution
• Preparing Future Faculty
• Diversity in the Classroom
• Everything You Need to Know about Postdocs
• Entrepreneurship
• Writing Your Dissertation (Spring 2009)
• Migrated from weekends to Thursday night format
  with great success

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Alliance-Wide Recruitment

• Alliance-Wide Recruiting
• Goal leverage strengths, characteristics, and
  resources of MAA universities by recruiting as an
  alliance
• Pros Increased number of recruiting events
  possible, and projection of state-wide community
  to prospective students
• Cons MAA booth recruiting proved to be confusing
  to prospective students
• Conclusion Ineffective method of recruiting that
  we abandoned two years ago
• Result MAA shifted focus to retention,
  campus-centric recruiting, and professional
  development

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Mega Midwest AGEP Conference (MMAC)

• February 7-9, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois
• Collaborative effort among 4 AGEP alliances
  representing 18 universities
• CUNY/Michigan Alliance (SBES)
• Great Lakes Alliances for Social Behavioral
  Sciences (SBES)
• Michigan AGEP Alliance (STEM)
• Midwest Crossroads Alliance (STEM)
• Participants
• 200 students
• 50 faulty members and industry representatives

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MMAC Conference Design

• Conference Goals
• To create an innovative collaborative effort
  among alliances
• Foster multi-alliance community-building among
  students
• Provide sessions focused on professional
  development for students at varying stages in
  their doctoral programs
• Plenary sessions and concurrent workshops
• 4 plenary sessions
• Nearly 35 workshops (most popular ones repeated)
• Career fair
• Representatives from both academia and industry
• Participants gave the conference an overall
  rating of 4.3 on a 5-point scale, with 5 being
  excellent

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MMAC Participant Comments

• Conferences such as these are greatly needed and
  appreciated by scholars of color. Please keep up
  the great work you are doing to assist scholars
  of color to learn and master the process of
  acquiring their Ph.D.'s.
• I had an interest in many of the workshops and
  looked forward to the opportunity for networking
  (with) across so many disciplines and
  universities. Being hosted in Chicago was an
  added benefit.
• The sessions about how to navigate through
  specific milestones as a professional (e.g.
  graduate school courses, grant writing, conflict
  resolutions). These specific sessions provided
  skills and helpful examples that were applicable
  across a variety of disciplines.

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YOUR THOUGHTS?
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Programs Unique to Campuses

• AGEP Learning Community - MSU
• Frequent Flyer Program - UM
• Deans Diversity Fellowship - WSU
• AGEP Fellowship - WMU

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Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Partners
• Faculty PI contributes a minimum of 15K
• College of Engineering
• College of Literature Sciences and the Arts
• Scope
• 7 postdoctoral fellows
• Departments Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical
  Engineering, Material Science Engineering,
  Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry

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Publications

• 3 In Preparation Stage
• Applied Optics
• Journal of Fluids Engineering
• Journal of the American Helicopter Society
• 7 Submitted
• International Journal of Solids and Structures
  (Accepted)
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (in
  press
• Journal of Colloid Interfacial Science (November
  2008)
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics (January 2009)
• Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and
  Structure (December 2008)
• Journal of Rheology (in press)
• 3 Published
• AIAA Journal (January 2009)
• Journal of the American Helicopter Society
  (January 2009)
• Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine (November
  2008)

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Conference Presentations, Awards Future Plans

• Conferences
• 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of
  Fluid Dynamics
• Acoustical Society of America 156th Meeting
• Experimental Biology/American Physiological
  Society Annual Meeting
• National Meeting of the American Chemical
  Society
• 57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
• Awards
• American Physiological Society Minority
  Scientist Travel Fellowship
• Beginning Investigator Award from the American
  Physiological Society
• Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award
• Perrin Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Future Plans
• 5 are in renewal stage
• 1 Naval Surface Warfare CenterCaderock
  Division
• 1 Returning to home state due to family
  matters.

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MAA Mentoring Programs

• Michigan AGEP Scholars Mentoring
• Peer and near-peer
• Mentoring Others Results in Excellence (MORE)
• Faculty Consultations, Presentations and
  workshops
• Student Training

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AGEP Scholars Mentoring

• Advanced AGEP scholars mentor First- and
  Second-year Ph.D. students
• First- and Second-Year Ph.D. students
• King/Chavez/Parks Scholars
• LSAMP scholars
• Urban Scholars Leaders

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MORE 2008-2009 Activities

• Workshops
• Effective Mentoring (New AGEP Mentors 2008)
• Pathways to the Ph.D. (MAA Fall Conference
  2008)
• Mentoring in the Research Lab
• Mentoring Best Practices and Positive
  Mentor/Mentee Interactions (Wayne State
  University, March 2009)
• Provost Seminar on Mentoring (May 2009)
• Mentoring in the Graduate School Experience
  (incoming Ph.D. students 2008)
• Web Resources

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Recruitment on Individual Campuses

• Campus visitation programs
• Preview Weekends
• Collaboration with Student Organizations
• AGEP support for Department and Faculty
  recruitment
• Grad Fairs and Conferences
• NSBE, SHPE, ABRCMS, SACNAS, California Diversity
  Forum, Big 10 Graduate School Expo, Tau Beta Pi,
  Sigma Xi, MAES