Dr. Kathleen Dunn is an Associate Professor in the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, NY. Her research focuses on materials engineering at the nanoscale: how defects can be induced, suppressed, and manipulated to generate desirable properties. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Electronic Materials, serves on the organizing committee for the IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference, and is a perennial instructor at SEMI’s High Tech U – both the student and teacher editions. Firmly believing that no one is an island, Prof. Dunn founded a peer-mentoring network for junior women faculty, advises a student SWE club, and leads the mentoring subcommittee of the SUNY Poly DEI initiative. She has won a SUNY Poly Women Who Inspire Award, the U Albany Bread and Roses Award for promoting gender equity on campus, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.