Howard University
Johns Hopkins University
Prince George’s CC
Howard University, The Johns Hopkins University
(JHU) and Prince Georges Community College
(PGCC) have joined together in an NSF sponsored
Partnership for Research and Education in Materials
(PREM). Coming into existence in mid-June 2006,
the shared goal is to train and support students for
success in materials research centered careers.
The PREM will support materials education through
design of new courses at PGCC and Howard and by
creation of web based guided inquiry modules, the
broad dissemination of which will inform students
about the impact materials have on their lives and
attract them to materials related studies. A
successful Howard/Hopkins/PGCC PREM will build a
pipeline for materials research careers among
African Americans.
At Howard, PREM
research and training will
be done in collaboration
with other on-campus
nanotechnology efforts.
The PREM team has
three research themes
that join together, in new
and exciting ways,
established research
projects in the JHU
MRSEC and at Howard.
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transport properties in Bi nanowires;
transport properties in InN nanowires;
fabrication of dipolar nitride nanowires for
nonlinear optical elements.
Joshua B. Halpern,
Chemistry
Director, Howard
Scott Sinex
Chair, Physical Sciences &
Engineering
Co-Director,
Robert M. Catchings,
Physics
Howard
Chia-Ling Chien
Director
Johns Hopkins MRSEC
Howard University
Gary L. Harris,
Electrical Engineering
Co-Director, Howard
PGCC Daniel H. Reich
Physics
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins
Tito E. Huber,
Chemistry
Howard
Howard Katz
Materials Engineering
Johns Hopkins
There are special summer research opportunities for
PGCC students at Howard (see Prof. Sinex) and for
Howard students at JHU (see Prof. Halpern)
Prince George’s CC
In Collaboration with the
Materials Research Science &
Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins
Student Opportunities
Student opportunities exist at all levels (graduate &
undergraduate) at the PREM Partner Institutions.
Johns Hopkins
University
Jason S. Matthews,
Chemistry
Howard
Peter C. Searson
Physics
Johns Hopkins
Sponsored
by NSF
Further Information for Students
The Johns Hopkins University
Materials Research Science &
Engineering Center
The Materials Research Science and Engineering
Center (MRSEC) at the Johns Hopkins University,
one of 26 MRSECs funded by the National Science
Foundation, is composed of scientists at JHU,
Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, and
the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST). Research in the Center focuses on the
science and engineering of magneto-electronics.
Research areas include:
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Perpendicular spin transport in MgO-based
magnetic tunnel junctions and other
systems.
Magnetic nanorings and other novel
magnetoelectronic device architectures.
Organic magnetoelectronic materials.
Explorations of magnetoelectronic effects in
lateral structures.
The research effort encompasses synthesis and
processing, characterization of nanostructures,
measurements of properties, theoretical modeling,
and prototype device fabrication and applications.
These five tightly linked components form the
research basis of this MRSEC.
The JHU MRSEC also has extensive Education
Outreach programs and collaborations with other
academic institutions, national labs, and industrial
concerns.
Research Experience for Undergraduates
High School Student Summer Internships
High School Teacher Summer Internships
Research Experience for Teachers
For further details:
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/groups/mrsec/
Materials Research at Howard
The PREM program at Howard University
complements and works with three other programs:
The Materials Science and Engineering program
in Academic Departments is an interdisciplinary
educational effort, which allows students to train for
materials careers.
Research in the NSF sponsored CREST Center for
Nanomaterials Characterization Science and
Processing Technology (NCSPT) creates a
chemical knowledge base that will allow an
unequivocal, comprehensive description of the
chemical status of nanomaterials.
The Howard Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Facility is part of the National Nano-technology
Infrastructure Network. NNIN is an integrated
networked partnership of user facilities, supported by
the NSF, serving the needs of nanoscale science,
engineering and technology. It is an established
centralized user facility containing over $10M of
micro- and nano fabrication and characterization
equipment, accessible by users.
At Howard University
Joshua B. Halpern, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Tel: (202) 806-6883
FAX: (202) 806-5442
Email: jhalpern@howard.edu
http://www.coas.howard.edu/PREM
At Johns Hopkins
University
Daniel H. Reich, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
tel: (410) 516-7899
fax: (410) 516-7329
Email: reich@jhu.edu
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/people/faculty/dhr.html
At Prince George’s Community College
Scott A. Sinex, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair Physical
Sciences
Tel: (301) 341-3023
Fax: (410) 516-7329
Email: ssinex@pgcc.edu
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/