Each year, the Materials Research Society (MRS) collaborates with a video production company to create a few short films about outstanding organizations and institutes all over the world working in the field of materials science. In 2021, MII was the focus of one such video, which highlighted our institute, interdisciplinary research areas, graduate degree program, and shared facilities.
These films are featured during the annual MRS Fall Meeting, as well as distributed widely online, reaching a large audience of interested scientists. MII was proud to be featured for the 2021 meeting in Boston alongside such other groups as the KAUST Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Helholtz Zentrum Berlin, and the Swansea University Institute of Structural Materials, Wales.
To create the video, MII worked with the production company WebsEdge. After facilitating the process of envisioning and planning the video, WebsEdge sent a videographer to the Virginia Tech campus to capture both interview and laboratory footage. Filming locations included the Materials Characterization Laboratory, GlycoMIP laboratories in Steger Hall, DREAMS Lab in Goodwin Hall, and the Battery Testing Facility and MII polymer conference room in Davidson Hall.
In addition to advancing MII’s professional reputation by informing the MRS community about our work, this video also serves to document how far MII has come throughout its history. It highlights the diversity of projects that we support, the interdisciplinary nature of our research, and the importance of training the next generation of macromolecular scientists.
The video can be viewed at mii.vt.edu/About.html
