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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.