December 8, 2018 - The application period for the Ph.D. Fellowship and Academic Career Development Grants will run December 1, 2018 through January 31, 2019. The program was implemented to address the long-term sustainability of U.S. mining engineering, mineral processing and extractive metallurgy programs, and particularly the declining number of senior faculty members teaching those programs.

Grants ranging from $60,000 to $100,000 are awarded annually. The directives of the program are:

• Career Development Grant - provides assistant or associate professors with the resources necessary to achieve promotion and tenure.

• Ph.D. Fellowship Grant - provides financial support to Ph.D. candidates with industry experience and a desire to pursue an academic career with the means of acquiring a doctoral degree.

For more information, visit www.smenet.org/students/grants-scholarships or email Academicgrants@smenet.org.