The University of Southern Mississippi’s National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) encompasses the development of next-generation STEM graduate training through interdisciplinary data-driven research, outreach, educational opportunities, and professional developments skills. The mission of NRT seeks to equip graduate students with a training in computational methodologies, effective communication skills, creative problem solving, team-building, among many others. This presentation will highlight a few recent experiences of NRT graduate trainees in professional development activities ranging from boot camps to internship experiences at other academic institutions and discuss how the beneficial skills learned from NRT played a role. Lastly, outreach and engagement activities performed by NRT trainees at local high schools in Mississippi will be discussed.

Reflections and experiences of current and past NSF NRT Interface Trainees at the University of Southern Mississippi

255th National Meeting (2018)

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