Howard/Hopkins/Prince George's Community College PREM

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Joshua B. Halpern, jhalpern@howard.edu, Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College St. NW, Washington, DC 20059, Gary L. Harris, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Howard University, Howard Nanofabrication Facility, Washington, DC 20059, Daniel H. Reich, dhr@pha.jhu.edu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218, and Scott A. Sinex, ssinex@pgcc.edu, Dept. of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Prince George's Community College, Largo, MD 20774.
Howard University, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Prince Georges Community College (PGCC) have joined together in a Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM). The shared goal is to identify and support students from under-represented minority communities and create a pipeline through which they can advance to materials science careers. The PREM team combines sophisticated approaches for advanced research with demonstrated success in recruiting, supporting and training African-Americans in materials science and engineering. The research emphasis is nanaowire synthesis and device fabrication. Among the ongoing projects are building spin filters, spin preserving interconnects using Bi nanowires, exploring the properties of InN and GaN nanowires and design of single source organic precursor that could be used in the growth of InN and GaN. The PREM supports materials education through design of new courses and by creation of web based guided inquiry modules.
 

Research and Education in Material Science
1:30 PM-4:55 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Elmwood, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008