Academic Career Development Program

This program is available for newly employed, non-tenured Assistant or Associate Professors.

Tenure-track assistant or associate professors find the financial support needed to better participate in activities such as research, publication and professional services, which are necessary to achieve tenure and promotion.

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SME has implemented these programs to address the long-term challenges that threaten the sustainability of U.S. mining and mineral processing/extractive metallurgy academic degree granting programs, as well as the looming future labor deficiencies associated with retirements over the next two decades.

Applications for 2025 will open in December.

Questions? Send an email to academicgrants@smenet.org

Currently Funded by: Freeport-McMoRan

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Award Recipients

  • ​​2024 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Ehsan Vahidi, University of Nevada, Reno
  • ​2024 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Rudrajit Mitra, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • 2023 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Jiaqi Jin, University of Utah

  • 2023 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Nathalie Risso, University of Arizona

  • 2022 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Angelina Anani, University of Arizona

  • 2022 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Taghi Sherizadeh, Missouri University of Science & Technology

  • ​2021 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Isabel Barton, University of Arizona

  • 2021 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Pedram Roghanchi, New Mexico Tech

  • 2019 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Jessica Wempen, University of Utah

  • 2019 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - QingQing Huang, West Virginia University

  • 2018 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Javad Sattarvand, University of Nevada, Reno

  • 2018 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant - Jaeheon Lee, University of Arizona

  • 2017 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Shimin Liu, Penn State

  • 2017 Freeport-McMoRan, Inc. Career Development Grant – Catherine Johnson, Missouri S&T

  • 2016 SME Career Development Grant – Charles K. Kocsis, University of Nevada-Reno

  • 2016 SME Career Development Grant – Andrea J. Brickey, South Dakota School of Mines

  • 2015 SME Career Development Grant – Aaron Noble, West Virginia University

  • 2015 SME Career Development Grant – Emily Sarver, Virginia Tech

 
Grants receiving complete funding from an individual, company or organization in any given year(s) may qualify for “naming rights” recognizing the individual, company or organization as the grant underwriter.