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TOP left Group photo from PEAQS retreat. TOP right FLC and NSU students work together during an interviewing workshop. MIDDLE left NSU students touring STROBE labs. MIDDLE right Keynote presentation. BOTTOM FLC and NSU studenttouring aerospace engineering labs
TOP left Group photo from PEAQS retreat. TOP right FLC and NSU students work together during an interviewing workshop. MIDDLE left NSU students touring STROBE labs. MIDDLE right Keynote presentation. BOTTOM FLC and NSU studenttouring aerospace engineering labs
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College

Community Building at the PEAQS Student Retreat

Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder
PEAQS hosted its first student retreat March 25-26th at CU Boulder.
TOP Bacterial sample collection and signal detection overview. BOTTOM Filter and amplifier circuit design to provide the necessary resolution and sensitivity for bacterial detection.
TOP Bacterial sample collection and signal detection overview. BOTTOM Filter and amplifier circuit design to provide the necessary resolution and sensitivity for bacterial detection.
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College

An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening

Yiyan Li, Fort Lewis College
The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed a microscope and an optical signal detector circuit to quantify single bacterium in microdroplets from environmental water samples.
TOP left Baldwin Varner with his CU Boulder mentor, Dr. Emma Caiting TOP right FLC graduate, Terrell Curley at his new position as a Failure Analysis Engineer BOTTOM Dakota Rodriguez presenting his work atthe MRS PREM Symposium in San Francisco.
TOP left Baldwin Varner with his CU Boulder mentor, Dr. Emma Caiting TOP right FLC graduate, Terrell Curley at his new position as a Failure Analysis Engineer BOTTOM Dakota Rodriguez presenting his work atthe MRS PREM Symposium in San Francisco.
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College

PEAQS student pathways

Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder
"I never realized how much this experience would make me a perfect fit for this career."
An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening
An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College

An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening

Yiyan Li, Fort Lewis College
The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed an optical system to quantify single bacterium from environmental water samples. To improve signal detection in their system, they developed a neural network, a method in artificial intelligence.
TOP NSU undergraduates performing STEM demonstrations at a local STEM carnival day. BOTTOM FLC undergraduate Ryan Calabaza helping middle schoolers in Cortez, CO understand their local watershed and water filtration at the local water processing plant.
TOP NSU undergraduates performing STEM demonstrations at a local STEM carnival day. BOTTOM FLC undergraduate Ryan Calabaza helping middle schoolers in Cortez, CO understand their local watershed and water filtration at the local water processing plant.
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College

PEAQS students in the community

Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder
PEAQS undergraduates have been busy getting out into their local communities to get K12 students interested in STEM.
PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary
PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary
News · Aug 22, 2024

PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary

PREM Web Team
Claribel Acevedo-Velez, director of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez/University of Wisconsin-Madison Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) has been named one of this year’s STEM Luminaries in recognition of her scientific contributions by Great Minds in STEM, an organization that supports broad participation in STEM.
Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education
Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education
News · May 24, 2024

Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education

By Wafa Hozien
A partnership that began in 2017 between Navajo Technical University (NTU) and the U.S. National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University is providing Navajo students with new opportunities to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering while helping to address critical issues facing the Navajo Nation.
NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
News · Oct 5, 2023

NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director

Divya Abhat
In early 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed Germano Iannacchione as the new Division Director for its Division of Materials Research (DMR)—a division with a critical objective to invest in the discovery, development, and design of new materials.
Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis
Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis
Highlight · Apr 11, 2023
University of Central Florida

Can magnetic quantum dots be catalysts too? Revisiting Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles for catalysis

Using a method developed by Gamelin Lab at UW in 2003 to study magnetic quantum dots, we synthesize Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles with varying Co atomic % inside ZnO nanoparticles.
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)
Highlight · Feb 21, 2023
North Carolina A & T State University

Collaborative Research and Education in Energy Materials (CREEM)

NSF PREM-supported three PhD students graduates in Fall 2022 at NCAT (Fall 2022 NCAT Commencement file photo, December 9, 2022)

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