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National Science Foundation grant will educate next generation of semiconductor researchers
The University of Dayton has received $353,378 from the National Science Foundation to educate the next generation of researchers working on semiconductor materials and electronic and photonic devices.
Undergraduate college students nationwide are invited to apply to a 10-week summer session where they will receive hands-on training and conduct research in the UD Nanofab Lab under the guidance of UD physics, electro-optics and photonics, and chemical and materials engineering faculty. Students will present their work at the annual UD summer STEM research symposium. The students' work also will help support research at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Interested students can see a full program description and link to apply below. Participants will receive a stipend, housing, travel funds and allowance for materials, supplies and meals.
Read the NSF abstract about the project here.
Last August, the University of Dayton joined leading Midwest research institutions in the Midwest Regional Network to Address National Needs in Semiconductor and Microelectronics to support the semiconductor and microelectronics industry's research, supply chain and workforce needs.
A month later, 14 University of Dayton faculty and staff in six labs became part of the Intel-funded Ohio-southwest Alliance on Semiconductors and Integrated Scalable Manufacturing to help develop a workforce for Ohio's semiconductor industry needs.
Anyone interested in learning more about the University's semiconductor alliances can contact Andrew Sarangan, chair of UD's Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics, at sarangan@udayton.edu.
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