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Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education- using Nanoscience Instrumentation for Quality Undergraduate Education

Brian J. Andaya, a former participant in the MIT Research Experience for Undergraduates program, is one of authors on a recently published paper in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA). During his summer as an REU student, Brian worked in the lab of Professor Paula Hammond and assisted with the research that led to this discovery.

PCCM is partnering with the Cornell, Northwestern, and MIT MRSECs to create an innovative new online collaborative research community of REU students across the country in the NSF-sponsored NSDL MatDL “Soft Matter Wiki” pilot program of the Materials Digital Library (MatDL), part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) project.

Visiting school teachers, undergraduate students and their professors get a macroscale immersion in nanoscale research through summer programs at Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Nebraska (NU). The Center fosters collaboration among NU physicists, chemists and engineers to advance nanomaterials research. Education and outreach is a vital part of the Center’s mission.

Materials Camps for teachers, plus PCCM’s Princeton University Materials Academy (P.U.M.A.) and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs, have resulted in a for-credit materials science curriculum in local high schools.

To create a nationally replicable model of a sustainable and continuously up-gradable hands-on undergraduate teaching laboratory of scanning probe methods, GEMSEC is working with researchers from the UW’s Center for Nanotechnology, educators from North Seattle Community College, representatives from a scanning probe microscopy manufacturer, and a nanotechnology SPM distributor. This partnership, NUE UNIQUE, will inaugurate […]

With a particular focus on engaging and including Native Americans in its entire range of programs, GEMSEC is weaving a fabric of education offerings to seamlessly support and complement its research thrusts. The programs address the needs of multiple audiences; (i) Furthering training of graduate and undergraduate students with interests in biomimetic science through: Annual, […]