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| This talk will describe the proposed NSF-funded research and educational partnership between the NSF MRSEC at Harvard University, the University of New Mexico, the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute and the Albuquerque Public Schools. This partnership is focused on a burgeoning, multidisciplinary area of materials technology, biomaterials. While biomaterials represent a huge and rapidly growing economic component of our health care system, they also provide an important context for increasing the relevance of materials research careers for students from under-represented groups. This connection will allow us to efficiently utilize biomaterials technologies to motivate students from under-represented groups to pursue research careers. The proposed collaborative integrates alliances with local educational institutions, focusing on education and training of minority students, teacher-education, team-based research, and professional development at all levels to result in substantive institutional and infrastructure development. The research will be focused on developing new materials technologies for three areas of medicine that are especially problematic in minority populations: infectious diseases (inexpensive detection and diagnosis), cardiovascular diseases (tissue engineering approaches to small diameter vascular grafts and heart valves) and cancer (cost effective, individualized, genomic sequencing for diagnosis and prognosis). |
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NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials
1:30 PM-4:40 PM, Sunday, 10 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon 11, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |