Summer Nanoscience Academy for High Schoolers

Friday, June 20, 2008

Event: High school teachers and their students from throughout Texas will attend the second annual Summer Nanoscience Academy, where they will explore the nanocosmos using electron microscopy, tour microelectronics and nanoscience facilities, and synthesize nanomaterials.

When: June 26-28, 2008. Thursday-Friday and the Saturday morning program will be for both teachers and students. The Saturday afternoon forum is for teachers only.

Where: Nano Science and Technology Building (NST). A map of campus is online.

Background: The Summer Nanoscience Academy is hosted by the Atomic & Molecular Imaging IGERT program. The program will consist of lectures, laboratory tours and hands-on laboratory experience. Twenty-four faculty and 12 graduate students from both the College of Natural Sciences and the Cockrell School of Engineering are involved in the IGERT program.

IGERT, which stands for Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, is a National Science Foundation program that seeks to train Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background and the technical, professional and personal skills needed to address the global questions of the future.

Interested media are invited to attend the hands-on nanomaterials laboratory session on Thursday, June 26, from 2-4 p.m. in Welch 2.124.  Students will be making, analyzing and experimenting upon different types of nanoparticles, including gold, iron oxide, and copper nanoparticles.