SME and the SME Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2016 Ph.D. Fellowship and Academic Career Development Grants. The programs focus on rebuilding the U.S. mining school faculty pipeline to address the decline of viable tenure-track candidates at universities offering degrees in mining engineering, mineral processing or extractive metallurgy.
Recipients of the 2016 mining academic grants are:
$100,000 Freeport-McMoRan Career Development Grants:
Dr. Andrea J. Brickey, Associate Professor, Mining Engineering & Management, South Dakota School of Mines
Dr. Charles K. Kocsis, Associate Professor, Mining & Metallurgical Engineering, University of Nevada-Reno
$60,000 Robert S. Shoemaker Ph.D. Fellowship Grant:
Gail L. Heath – Mining Engineering, University of Arizona
$60,000 Ph.D. Fellowship Grants funded from other sources:
Richard M. LaDouceur – Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Montana Tech
Penny L. Padgett – Mining Engineering, University of Kentucky
The five recipients of the 2015 grants who are continuing with the second year of their programs will also receive a $380,000 disbursement from SME. For more information on the SME mining academic grant programs, please visit www.smenet.org/students/grants-scholarships.