Materials Research and Engineering

We are pleased to announce summer research opportunities for undergraduates and K-12 teachers through our REU/RET Site in Materials Research and Engineering. Building on existing programs at Harvard, we provide a coordinated, educational and dynamic research community, which will serve to inspire and encourage young scientists to continue on to graduate school

The Harvard-funded Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) provides the intellectual framework for this program. The materials-based research encompassed by CNS, with its wide intellectual span and state-of-the-art shared experimental facilities, is an ideal environment to provide undergraduates and teachers a hands-on exposure to research. We are seeking undergraduates from chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and geophysics, as well as local K-12 science and engineering teachers to participate in the activities of the REU Site.

We provide a focused effort for mentoring, stimulating and training undergraduates and teachers in several exciting branches of materials science and engineering:

self-assembly of soft materials
mechanical properties of thin films
imaging electrons in nanoscale materials
development of materials and tools for biology

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0353937.