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Alexis Lewis, Program Director at the National Science Foundation, participates in a Q&A session at Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). (Photo credit: TMS)

From left to right: Clarissa Yablinsky, Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jonathan Madison, Senior Member, Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratory, and Megan Brewster, TMS/MRS 2013-2014 Fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources at the U.S. Department of Energy, participate in a facilitated session on issues specific to the government workplace at Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). (Photo credit: TMS)

 

From left to right (facing): Elizabeth Holm, TMS Past President, Summit Organizing Chair, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Kathryn Dannemann, Principal Engineer at Southwest Research Institute take part in facilitated discussion on issues specific to the industrial workplace at Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). (Photo credit: TMS)

TMS leadership in front of the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington D.C. during Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). From left to right: James J. Robinson, TMS Executive Director; Patrice Turchi, 2015TMS President; Elizabeth A. Holm, 2013 TMS President, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Summit Organizing Chair; Tresa M. Pollock, 2005 TMS President, Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Summit Advisory Organizer; J. Wayne Jones, 1999 TMS President, Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Summit Advisory Organizer; and Hani Henein, 2014 TMS President and Professor at the University of Alberta. (Photo credit: TMS)

 

A panel discussion with the industry, academia, and keynote speakers at Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). From left to right: Dawne Hickton, Vice Chair, President, and CEO of RTI International Metals; Linda Abriola, Dean of the School of Engineering at Tufts University; Johnnie DeLoach, Materials Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center; and J. Wayne Jones, Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Summit Advisory Organizer, and panel discussion leader. (Photo credit: TMS)

Attendees share strategies and experiences on addressing diversity and inclusion issues between sessions at the Diversity in Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). Richard V. Martinez, Vice President of Human Resources at Newmont Global Mining, is facing the camera. (Photo credit: TMS)

 

Battelle President and CEO Jeffrey Wadsworth (center) presents Viola Acoff, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (right) with the inaugural TMS Ellen Swallow Richards Diversity Award while 2014 TMS President Hani Henein (left) looks on at Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1). (Photo credit: TMS)

Attendees network during the Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM1) Summit Dinner: A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Ellen Swallow Richards. DMMM1 was held in July 2014 in the historic National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: TMS)

 

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 L.W. 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. (Photo credit: TMS)