The MRL was proud to host the 5th Future Faculty Workshop from July 15-17th, 2012. By specifically addressing broadening participation issues, over 40 graduate students and post-doctoral scholars from across the United States joined with 12 leading academics to create the leaders of tomorrow and  provide mentorship to aspiring underrepresented minority students in the broad areas of Chemistry,  Chemical Engineering  and Materials Science.

This  2  day  workshop provided mentorship to aspiring underrepresented minority students with ambitions to become independent  academic  researchers  in  the  broad areas of  Chemistry,  Chemical  Engineering  and Materials Science. The workshop was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara from the evening of Sunday July 15 to Tuesday evening July 17, 2012. Eminent professors from around the country were in attendance to provide mentoring and the goal was to maintain a student/faculty ratio that was less than 4:1. This was the 5th workshop in this series and the previous workshops were held at MIT (2008, 2011), Carnegie Mellon University (2009), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2010).