TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impacts of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry on the Careers of Women in Computational Chemistry
AU - Anderson, Kelly
AU - Arradondo, Sarah
AU - Ball, K. Aurelia
AU - Bruce, Chrystal
AU - Gomez, Maria A.
AU - He, Kedan
AU - Hendrickson, Heidi
AU - Madison, Lindsey
AU - McDonald, Ashley Ringer
AU - Nagan, Maria C.
AU - Scott, Caitlin E.
AU - Soto, Patricia
AU - Tomlinson, Aime'E
AU - Varner, Mychel
AU - Parish, Carol
N1 - Funding Information:
The MERCURY consortium is grateful for the support of six NSF-MRI grants between 2001 and the present: CHE 0116435, 2001; CHE 0521063, 2005; CHE 0821581, 2008; CHE 1229354, 2012; CHE 1626238, 2016; and CHE 2018472, 2020. We would also like to thank the Palmetto staff at Clemson University for hosting our hardware and providing excellent support and training opportunities. The authors are indebted to all members of the MERCURY consortium for support, mentorship, and good colleagueship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2022/12/26
Y1 - 2022/12/26
N2 - The Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY) has supported a diverse group of faculty and students for over 20 years by providing computational resources as well as networking opportunities and professional support. The consortium comprises 38 faculty (42% women) at 34 different institutions, who have trained nearly 900 undergraduate students, more than two-thirds of whom identify as women and one-quarter identify as students of color. MERCURY provides a model for the support necessary for faculty to achieve professional advancement and career satisfaction. The range of experiences and expertise of the consortium members provides excellent networking opportunities that allow MERCURY faculty to support each other's teaching, research, and service needs, including generating meaningful scientific advancements and outcomes with undergraduate researchers as well as being leaders at the departmental, institutional, and national levels. While all MERCURY faculty benefit from these supports, the disproportionate number of women in the consortium, relative to their representation in computational sciences generally, produces a sizable impact on advancing women in the computational sciences. In this report, the women of MERCURY share how the consortium has benefited their careers and the careers of their students.
AB - The Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY) has supported a diverse group of faculty and students for over 20 years by providing computational resources as well as networking opportunities and professional support. The consortium comprises 38 faculty (42% women) at 34 different institutions, who have trained nearly 900 undergraduate students, more than two-thirds of whom identify as women and one-quarter identify as students of color. MERCURY provides a model for the support necessary for faculty to achieve professional advancement and career satisfaction. The range of experiences and expertise of the consortium members provides excellent networking opportunities that allow MERCURY faculty to support each other's teaching, research, and service needs, including generating meaningful scientific advancements and outcomes with undergraduate researchers as well as being leaders at the departmental, institutional, and national levels. While all MERCURY faculty benefit from these supports, the disproportionate number of women in the consortium, relative to their representation in computational sciences generally, produces a sizable impact on advancing women in the computational sciences. In this report, the women of MERCURY share how the consortium has benefited their careers and the careers of their students.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00566
DO - 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00566
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85136281013
VL - 62
SP - 6316
EP - 6322
JO - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
JF - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
SN - 1549-9596
IS - 24
ER -