In Memoriam

Imade Asemota

Imade Asemota, a 2009 GEM applicant, selected by the 3M corporation, and admitted and sponsored by University of Michigan to receive the GEM PhD Fellowship in chemical engineering passed away on April 11, 2009. A donation will be made on behalf of GEM to the The Imade Asemota Foundation for Sickle Cell Research and Patients’ Welfare.

June 17, 2009
University of Iowa GRAD Lab

September 19, 2009
GRAD Lab - University of Arizona

September 26, 2009
MC-STEMP GRAD Lab

October 2, 2009
Opt-ED Conference

October 29, 2009
AISES GRAD Lab

More GEM Events

GEM Office is Moving to Alexandria, VA!

GEM has purchased an office townhouse style building in the commercial non-profit cluster in Old Town, Alexandria. Like organizations within a two block radius of our new location include: National Society of Professional Engineers, National Engineers Week Foundation, National Society of Black Engineers, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

We anticipate moving to our new home on July 1, 2009. Please update your address books. GEM's new contact information will be:

Phone: (703) 562-3646

Address: 1430 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.

GEM Executive Committee Meeting April 29-30, 2009, sponsored by Corning Inc.

The GEM Executive Committee along with Standing Chairs met this past April in Corning, NY to discuss the strategy of GEM. Several proposals were analyzed in detail for consideration to present at GEM's next Annual Board Meeting, tentatively scheduled for October 28, 2009 at Noon Eastern (mark your calendar!) as a comprehensive webinar with a physical meeting in Washington, D.C. for those who are already planning to be in DC. Proposals under discussion were new models that would allow for streamlined University payments, University sponsorship and development of research based skills of GEM applicants.

English or Spanish, GEM covers both NSBE and SHPE

Prowl and growl, go Clemson Tigers! The NSBE chapter at Clemson hosted GEM for one of their membership meetings in March. "Show me the money", they said. Jacqueline Thomas shared ways to find funding for graduate school, as well as how to apply for the GEM fellowship. Students also heard from four of our fellows who shared their internship experience at Lexmark.

Standing room only: the SHPE chapter of Georgia Tech did not want to be left behind, so they invited Ms. Jacqueline Thomas, in March, to speak at their membership meeting on the GEM fellowship, as well as how to find money for graduate school. Go Yellow Jackets!

Final four in North Carolina: GEM was there, not for the games, but to share the word that through GEM you too can be a champion. Jacqueline Thomas was the presenter at the SHPE Regional Leadership Conference, speaking to students about the importance of graduate school and finding funding for it. This was a great opportunity as GEM was able to share with one of their employer members, IBM, who was a sponsor of the event as well as from Andrew Pita, one of the GEM fellows and current president of SHPE Region 7 chair. Not only does GEM deliver excellent education opportunity, funding and employment opportunity we deliver champions. Great job University of North Carolina!

GEM traveled west again! Jacqueline Thomas was invited to speak at the annual UC Graduate Fellowship Advisors Consortium at UC Davis. This gave GEM another opportunity to share information with other UC universities about the GEM program and the benefits of being a member. She also presented to students information about the GEM fellowship program, and how and when to apply.

She then traveled to Los Angeles to be a part of the USC Center for Engineering and Diversity Awards Banquet where several of our GEM fellows received awards and recognitions. GEM was recognized by Northrop Grumman as a partner and a good way for students to gain internship experience with a great company. Students were encouraged to apply in July.

GEM People on the Move!

Arnold Kee, GEM Fellowship Administrator, Resigns

Arnold M. Kee, GEM Fellowship Administrator, has resigned. He accepted an exciting new position at the Green Building Insititute. Please join us in thanking Arnold for helping GEM create much needed data structures in our transition from Notre Dame to ETS. We wish him well in his new endeavor.

Tony Jimenez Accepts New Position

Congratulation to Tony Jimenez , who has taken a new position as Coordinator Student Affairs and Medical Scholar Program with the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. We will miss his good work as our GEM representative at UC Santa Barbara but we look forward to working with him in his new role at another one of our GEM University members.

Do you know of a GEM rep pursuing a new and exciting opportunity? Please send an announcement to info@gemfellowship.org.

Visit www.gemfellowship.org for more information on The National GEM Consortium!