A hello to NPSS Young Professionals!

NPSS and its conference organizing committee members are always trying to provide a variety of resources for its Young Professionals. In particular, starting this year, NPSS is introducing the “From Membership to Leadership (M2L)” initiative at various conferences. The purpose of this initiative is to introduce young members of our society to service opportunities via the IEEE/NPSS Membership Table. Each M2L individual selected will be able to claim up to $1500 of travel support as a student, post-doc, or young professional member of our society to attend an NPSS conference. A young professional applicant is eligible for up to ten years from the graduation date of their highest degree. To receive this support, the individual will be required to help staff the IEEE/NPSS Membership Table at the conference at least two hours a day. 

This is a great opportunity to interact with senior members within your community, and also provides a hands-on approach to learning ways in which YPs can get involved within your technical community and society. This is a competitive application process and interested members should contact your respective conference Chair in advance to learn more about this opportunity and the application process.

Finally, if you would like to see a particular event organized at an upcoming workshop or conference, please reach out to me via email or subscribe to the NPSS-YP listserv.

Srilalan Krishnamoorthy, University of Pennsylvania, can be reached at [email protected]