Travel grants are available to support students to attend MRS Fall 2021 Symposium EQ07. The conference will be in hybrid mode. The travel grant will cover attendance cost up to $300 for each selected student. The symposium organizers will select the travel grant awardees based on the abstract quality and the financial need, with priority given to underrepresented minority students and those who work on mechanics-related topics. This symposium will cover a broad range of emergent properties in 2D materials enabled by strain and defect, including thermal, optical, electrical, magnetic properties, enabling the applications for electronics, plasmonics, spintronics, straintronics and valleytronics. The materials will include not only graphitic materials, transition metal dichalcogenides, but also some emerging families of ferromagnetic materials. We are also proud to have two tutorial lectures given by Prof. Rui Huang and Prof. Allan H. MacDonald from UT-Austin on "Mechanics and Moirés in 2D Materials". Details of the symposium can be found here. The late news abstract submission will be open from Aug. 23rd to Sept. 3rd. Please join us in the fall. For students who want to be considered for the travel grant, please apply through email (to: qing.tu [at] tamu.edu) and include a short statement of financial need. If you have already submitted your abstract during the regular submission window, you can email your application as well. Travel grant application deadline: Oct. 1st, but you must first get your abstract into the symposium. Please encourage your student to attend the conference and hopefully, this travel grant will promote broader participation of students in MRS. Thanks to the support from NSF-MOMS program.