CMI education and outreach ranges from youth to adult, with an emphasis on workforce development
- February: More than 100 people attended the CMI Winter Meeting at Colorado School of Mines in February. CMI offered its fifth graduate and postdoctoral professional two-day research seminar at Colorado School of Mines, with 113 participants representing 21 different institutions, including universities, industry and government. Students and postdocs presented their research in 26 posters and 16 presentations. The Leadership Academy met, developed a rating scale and judged the research posters. Two tours of laboratories were offered, including the Metallurgy Extractive Lab and the Geo Environmental Lab.
- February: CMI offered its fifth graduate and postdoctoral professional two-day research seminar at Colorado School of Mines. Students and postdocs presented their research in 26 posters and 16 presentations. The
16 research presentations at the winter meeting were voted on by peers in attendance of the meeting. The presentation winners are Hannah Gagarin and Philip Keller, both graduate students at Colorado School of Mines, shown with CMI Deputy Director Rod Eggert. Members of CMI’s Leadership Academy demonstrated their leadership and manag
ement skills during the Winter meeting. They developed a poster session rating scale and judged each of the 26 research posters. The poster session winners are Rakesh Chaudhary (left) and Abhishek Sarkar (third from left), both postdocs at Ames Laboratory. They are pictured with Rod Eggert, Helena Khazdozian, the DOE program manager for CMI and CMI Leadership Academy members Ruby Nguyen of INL, and Zachary Sims of ORNL. - CMI mentors interns: CMI offers a variety of internship programs. During 2020, a former intern won an award. Congratulations to CMI student researcher Olivia Salmon, whose master’s thesis
“Impacts of Rare Earth Elements on Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes” won a national award from Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP). Salmon was a student at Colorado School of Mines, where she earned her master of science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in December 2019. Olivia participated in a CMI externship at Idaho National Laboratory, funded by the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation fellowship. Olivia is applying her skills in environmental consulting, with a focus on assessment and remediation of abandoned mine projects on federal lands. Increasing domestic expertise in environmental impacts of critical material processing wastes will support development and application of sustainable CM production and recycling technologies. - CMI webinars are offered nearly monthly, and most are recorded. CMI webinars in 2020 include CMI researchers, CMI partners and guest speakers. Link to CMI webinars
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Cynthia Howell
Research Faculty, Education, Training and Outreach